Spring Awakening love- Page 25

[C is for Company]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 2:47pm

I saw the show for the first time last night and the full cast was in minus Christine Estebrook. I don't know when they meant they were alternating anything.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 2:55pm

^Apparently Lauren decided she was going on and Krysta or Phoebe weren't going on as Ilse this weekend.
Edit: Some people were actually a little disappointed because some people like to see understudies in this show. Updated On: 3/18/07 at 02:55 PM

[C is for Company]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 3:00pm

She had a brace on her foot if that is possibly the source of her troubles. I'm glad she went on, I like her voice and she did not disappoint. I was pleased my first time had no understudies on for the minors. I do wish I saw Mrs. Huber though lol

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 3:13pm

^Yeah she injured her ankle during a show but pulled through for the rest of the show. I guess they thought she was going to be out but she changed her mind or something. I feel bad for her because this isn't the first time she's hurt her ankle.

Updated On: 3/18/07 at 03:13 PM

[C is for Company]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 3:19pm

Well everybody in that whole show is always stomping and she doesn't wear shoes so I hope that wasn't the reason. Everyone seems pretty physical in the show, especially the boys, and some of the things seemed pretty risky.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 6:09pm

bump

[Marlene]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 6:14pm

Is Lea alright?

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 6:17pm

"Is Lea alright?"

Well she is going on tonight but I guess she must have been really sick to not go on. I've heard she's been puking and has still gone on.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 3/24/07 at 1:43pm

This a cute backstage video

here Updated On: 3/24/07 at 01:43 PM

[teka21]

Posted: 3/24/07 at 3:15pm

Found this amazing review of SA on broadwaybox.com dated 3/18/07 by "TG":

"I was very fortunate to see Spring Awakening on Friday evening, March 16th with my wife, college-aged daughter, and high school-aged daughter. I am a classically trained musician and public school music educator (school administrator) with over thirty years of professional performance and teaching experience. In addition, I have seen just about every important Broadway musical ever mounted on the New York stage. It is nevertheless a very rare experience then when I come away 'changed' by a piece of musical theater. Spring Awakening is a life-changing moment in the history of the Broadway musical. There is so much garbage being marketed on Broadway. Little, if anything is original anymore and everything is being geared for tourists and folks who come expecting another Disney-film transformed for the stage. If you want Disney shows - go to Orlando or Anaheim. If you want cutting-edge Broadway theater make haste to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre to catch Spring Awakening with the original cast - I am guessing that many of them will be leaving soon after the June Tony awards bestowe numerous accolades. I purchased the Broadway cast recording of Spring Awakening several month's ago when it was first released and it has grown on me thanks to Duncan Sheik's gorgeous writing. The show has to be experienced live. The energy of the mostly teenage/early 20s cast is relentless and overwhelming. In the end this show is an emotionally wrenching commentary on the failure of adults to understand children. As an educator I know and understand this shortcoming all too well. The leading members of this cast (Groff, Michele and Gallagher) are headed for super-stardom along with the incredible talents of a superb company with the added benefit of seasoned adult actors Spinella and Estabrook. Michael Mayer's direction is crisp and never dull. Kimberly Grisby's on-stage musical direction is outstanding (hurray for Manhattan School of Music - my alma mater) with an outrageously gifted band of talented musicians (acoustic instruments played with grace and high-end musicianship). Note: there are a number of very graphic moments (language, nudity, suicide, masturbation, violence, homosexuality) in the show that are handled with extreme care and there is never a sense that the language or action is staged gratuitously for shock value ... rather, it is done with a careful touch. Frank Wedekind's 19th century play here remains mostly intact although it is condensed with some artistic license. The songs are pure Indie-rock inspired with some memorable moments provided by the stellar cast (notably in: The Bitch of Living, My Junk is You, Touch Me, Don't Do Sadness, Those You've Known, and the beguiling Song of Purple Summer). The interplay of 19th century German society with contemporary 21st century music is jolting yet it works in some brilliant ways. In the end the 1,100 members of the audience are left with the impression that what they have just seen is something new and cutting edge. Admittedly, this show will be an unsettling experience for some (especially those wanting a feel-good experience). It is a most provocative experience and I intend to see it again (in the on-stage seating). If this musical fails to capture the 2007 Tony Award for best musical and multiple awards for the superb cast, musical score, director, producers and all involved then there is something terribly wrong with the future of the American musical stage. I was in the end: thrilled, left short of breath, hugely impressed and decimated emotionally. It is a unique experience that defies description. I am a changed man."

Thank you "TG", whoever you are!

[JKlock]

Posted: 3/24/07 at 7:01pm

Becoz_i_knew_you21 thanks so much for posting that. what a great video! :)

[bklynqt19862]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 12:38am

Thanks for posting this video!! I love the cast they're freakin awesome!!

[C is for Company]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 1:25am

Does anybody know where Christine has been? She was out again tonight and I was curious if maybe she is filming something briefly?

[trinaaron]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 1:21pm

I saw this yesterday and WOW. While not perfect (i.e. the at times very odd choreography and Groff's saliva issues, which while not a flaw of the show itself were extremely distracting),
as a whole the production is amazing. The boys, particularly Skylar Astin, stole the show for me. For some reason I also really was taken with the two adults (the woman was the understudy). From reviews and such I went in this with a lot of preconcieved notions (most of them not good) that I can happily say 90% were proved wrong.
Updated On: 3/25/07 at 01:21 PM

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 1:27pm

"Does anybody know where Christine has been? She was out again tonight and I was curious if maybe she is filming something briefly?"

I don't know but Frances has been going on for her quite a bit.

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 1:29pm

I feel like I am the only one who didn't like Frances. I thought she lacked something that Christine has.

Skylar was amazing yesterday. He's got one hell of a voice.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 1:34pm

It's a shame Skylar and Phoebe don't have more to do.

[jg4892]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 1:59pm

Skylar's riffs were insane yesterday.

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 2:01pm

Yes they were. The best part of the whole show for me. I was like...I need air....too amazing. haha And I noticed that he changed them up a bit which was great. Updated On: 3/25/07 at 02:01 PM

[gymdudeva]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 2:53pm

I saw it again last week, once again from the stage, and the next night from the house.

When I went to see it from row P, i was bummed that I wasn't up there on stage again...but then...wow, the thing looked and sounded so great from the house....on stage is much more fun, but I was really surprised how much different it was from the front...I caught a lot more of what was actually being done with the lighting the staging, etc. and it had a bigger emotional impact.

Quick fun story: Sylar stomped on my thigh! I think I was "overflowing" a little onto the chair next to me, and during one of the rowdy numbers (I think it was "Totally F*cked"), he stomped his foot on that chair and caught my leg!! So outside the stage door I went up and acted mad and said "You stomped on my thigh!" He apologized and was really nice about it. I laughed and said it was OK.

I feel like I am the only one who didn't like Frances.

I've heard others say the same.

By the way, Christine just had a minor medical problem, nothing serious...sounds like she will be back soon.

[whistlingbackstge]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 3:20pm

well it could have something to do with the fact that frances is 30 years younger than christine. i thought that she was exceptional, especially for someone so young. i would like to see her again.

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 3:26pm

I just felt her performance to be very lacking. It was forgettable and it was pretty boring. She wasn't bad, but I prefer Christine and I didn't really enjoy Frances' performance.

I will say that I enjoyed her as Wendla's mother/Melchior's mother in the second act. I think she's a better dramatic actress than a comedic actress. Updated On: 3/25/07 at 03:26 PM

[ws4lyfe2]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 4:58pm

whoever was at the matinee yesterday...did u enjoy seeing jonathan b wright start laughing and lose character? i kno i did!

[jg4892]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 5:06pm

In WOYB reprise? He always laughs, but it seemed a little more natural yesterday.

[ws4lyfe2]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 5:09pm

yea..he started laughing after gideon said "and in the meantime?"...so everyone started cheering cause he laughed more than he was supposed to...it was great haha...and the whole cast seemed really giddy i thought