Spring Awakening love — Page 19

it seems like a lot of people are seeing it today!

if anyone feels the urge, I'm always up for reading some reviews but only if you feel like it!

and um. dudes. check the site which must not be named ("spring awakening" and "date added"). thatsallimsayin

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Marlene - Ha, nope!

By the way, did I see you at the stage door for the matinee? I walked by, but wasn't quite sure...

I am in love... with Spring Awakening. Thank you.

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Thought it was you.

I ran into a whole bunch of street people (sounds like prostitution) I think by the Palace.

I don't know if they were singing.

I thought the show was good. The score is great (with a few weak songs), but as a rock score, it was extremely well done.

The concept for the show was excellent, though the execution was often flawed.

The performers were all fantastic, especially Pritchard, Gallagher, Jr., and Wright. Groff has a wonderfully clear voice, his acting was good, but often overshadowed by Gallagher. But I agree about the lack of character development in the script.

Lea Michele also has a great voice and I thought she did a great job.

Everyone was in, which is always nice for this type of tight cast show.

yayy I'm glad you guys liked it!!

and its nice to hear lauren's back, she seemed like she was out sick for quite a while!

and I can see where you guys are coming from with the Groff/Gallagher thing, though I think part of it is also kind of in the fact that Moritz is more fleshed out and probably a little more relatable than Melchior :) I lurve them both though, as I think everyone one here probably has realized by now *g*

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Updated On: 2/18/07 at 11:04 PM

hahaha, well ok, I cant really say I've done any of those either.

but as far as the whole being under a lot of stress with school/parents and such- and just being a generally really confused teenager Being a junior this year, and it being one of the worst/most stressful school years I've ever had, I can DEF personally relate to the school aspect imparticular right now.

definitely not undermining the fact that gallagher's amazing though. because he is.

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Updated On: 2/18/07 at 11:12 PM

I think the show did an overall good job of avoiding clichés.

I mean, have you seen MEAN CREEK? That wannabe STAND BY ME.

^OMG. Johnny is in Pieces of April!?! I saw it a while ago but def dont really remember him in it (most likely just because I had no idea who he was at the time lol). I definitely need to rent it again now! :P

Johnny is going to be SO huge one day. He just has that star quality factor- plus he's probably one of the best actors I've ever seen on stage

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Updated On: 2/18/07 at 11:48 PM

Hopefully SA will taking some of those Tonys home. People have been saying for Best Musical! *crosses fingers*

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Emcee, if that was two Saturdays ago, I was probably there, or by the corner of the block by the train station getting away from Mama Who Bore Me for the 10th time...and feeling inadequate as a street teamer with only flyer distribution skills. The singing is a real sort of iffy thing, it attracts attention at the very least, sometimes really negative attention. But it's really nice when people stop by and I can actually talk up the show and have a conversation.

Perhaps I just have entirely messed up people as friends, but I absolutely see Melchior and Moritz as aspects of my friends—right down the to completely intense stuff.

I just feel that Moritz is to an extent more developed because the teenage suicide story is more prevalent in his character. It’s not portrayed in anyway that is totally cliché, but you definitely see his character building, and it’s sort of a logical train until the inevitable breaking point. And I personally have a greater sense of commiseration for him. Gallegher just plays the character so well with that sense of anticipation and nervous energy—and Moritz just rocks harder during the songs. And his interaction with Ilsa—gold.

I have an undying adoration of Groff’s face. It’s just so pretty. Yes, it just sort of goes back to the principal of 1920s Chicago and not sending people off to jail who are pretty. He just channels that sense of self-assured, rebellious, I’m not even trying cool—but yet I kick ass in every single way. I mean after “Totally F-ed” happens, I’m just a little too amused of how kick ass that number is, which unfortunately overshadows Moritz’s death and takes some of the weight off. If I went by Wedkind’s play I wouldn’t really like Melchior, in regards to his relationship with Wendla, as I do in the musical. The issue of consent vs. rape comes up, but the latter isn’t presented in the musical.

I guess I am sort of muddled in my interpretations because I read the source material shortly after seeing the musical.

Wendla’s character frustrates me because it’s so period. It’s the innocent, naïve; I don’t know where babies come from, until that confrontation scene with her mother. Lea Michele does a wonderful job with it, and gives a stunning performance but there’s just this sense of oh god, if the book and the acting weren’t compelling and honest we’d fall into a giant wormhole of full-fledged portrayal of a female stereotype.

I don't think it was a Saturday? And they were singing The Song of Purple Summer. And I don't think I saw you.

I'm glad I'm good for a laugh... but really, I just don't like being accosted when I have somewhere to be. Call me cynical New Yorker, but it gets old.

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the finale!