The real question about Spring Awakening is...- Page 2

[jimnysf]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 12:16pm

"Rent" is a "feel good" show? It's about a bunch of slackers with AIDS. How does that translate to "feel good"?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 8:47pm

Oh come on, if it wasn't ultimately about, like, how, you know, we're all connected, despite our addictions and disease, it wouldn't be a hit. Pu-leeze, the girl dying of AIDS rises up at the end to live? Even Puccini knew better than to push that on the masses. And I really like RENT. But let's not pretend it's "gritty." It's awash in sentiment, which at times -- especially the still unfinished 2nd act -- must cover up a lot of self-indulgence on the part of characters whose "plight" in life isn't exactly consistent with what most struggling people go through.

[Broadwayboy2631]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 9:42pm

I went to the box office today to try to get a ticket to the show and they were sold out, so that’s a good indication of how the ticket sales are doing.

[Phantom2]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 10:08pm

Well, the figures come out Monday morning, right?

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 8:08am

Broadwayboy, they were sold out? Did you try and get student rush, or just any ticket in general?
Wow

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 9:23am

Both Sat. shows were on TDF for $31.00.

[McFrenzied]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:19am

Yah, but TDF buys a set number of those tickets from the production before hand (the exact number depends on how many tickets TDF thinks it can unload), so the production is obligated to use up their agreed on quota, whether a show becomes a hit or not. I bet those are the last of the TDF tickets we'll see.

[sciguy]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:41am

As of today Spring Awakening is not on TDF.

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 1:30pm

One week after those reviews and the show is already on TDF and at the TKTS booth. Audiences can smell a hollow enterprise a mile away.





Franz Wedekind
Baden-Baden, Germany

[TomMonster]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 1:36pm

That's not really true Enchanted.

TDF was arranged before the opening for this week. Also the new and growing pre-sale won't really reflect until next week, so TKTS would have been used to fill the seats on those first nights after opening.

I'm not sure what you mean by hollow enterprise...audiences are loving this show and the buzz is big in town right now.

[blueram]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 1:49pm

I saw the Spring Awakening matinee yesterday. I got to the box office a bit past 9am and there were already around 7 people in front of me. At 9:30am, there were more than 10 people behind me already and when the box office opened, there were around 40 people in line already. The matinee show I caught was full. And surprisingly, there were a lot of older people in the theater.My friends and I thought they wouldn't like it and leave after intermission or something. But at the curtain call, they were the ones who stood up immediately after the last song for a standing ovation. Freakin amazing show. A good number of elderly ladies even hugged Jonathan Groff at the stagedoor and I even saw some crying. lol. I do hope it does run for a long time. I want to see it again this week. And I'm glad I saw it before it becomes too difficult to get cheap tickets. I remember seeing Jersey Boys without having to line up for student rush tickets. Now I hear the line's insane.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 1:51pm

I really hope this show does well. Two of my friends saw it yesterday and absolutely loved it. I won't get to the city until around April, and I hope it's still around then.

I haven't turned the OBCR off since Monday.

[MandaGurl]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:35pm

Ok, I really need to see this show

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:13pm

"I'm not sure what you mean by hollow enterprise...audiences are loving this show and the buzz is big in town right now."

I wouldn't be too sure. The only claque responding to the show are teens, the undiscerning, and those unable to form their own opinion. It's self-evident when you see the show--get past the first 15 minutes and the responses and applause grow increasingly attentuated and abrupt--you can practically feel disappointment and boredom set in. Even the ritual and meaningless standing ovation that greets every show is compromised here, with many in the audience keeping their butts firmly planted in their seats. Finally, backlash is already circulating on the street. It's gonna be one tough sell for SA.

Von Kleist
Homburg, Germany
Updated On: 12/17/06 at 06:13 PM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:21pm

EnchantedHunter, your problem is that you have no taste. I don't even know why you're even interested in theatre in the first place. If you're planning on becoming an actor or something, you will be fired on the first day of rehearsal. Hell, they'll fire you at the audition.

Updated On: 12/17/06 at 06:21 PM

[educator06]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:23pm

You can't be serious; I have been to this show five times. Every time, every time I have been there the entire audience springs to their feet the split-second the lights go down. They clap almost until their hands bleed; they demand three curtain calls every time. People are crazy in love with SA.

[McFrenzied]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:24pm

Dear Mr. Kleist..the "Enchanted" Hunter,
I am sorry you did not appreciate the show. Perhaps the response from Homburg is that Americans have messed with your dear Wedekind. You are in the minority, so please stop spoiling it for the rest of us. It is NOT just young audiences that are loving this. I have sent my grandmother and her friends to the show and they said it was the best thing they had ever seen on Broadway (and if you knew my grandmother, you would know she is not swayed by what other people think). Last Friday I was at Hi-Fidelity and there were people in front and behind me murmuring about Spring Awakening when they saw the article about Tom Hulce in Playbill magazine. Everyone is talking about it and a rabid fan base is growing with no backlash in site. I'm not sure how you can measure the buzz "on the street" all the way in Homborg, Germany.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:28pm

Again, EnchantedHunter has no taste. You should hear how he disses Michael John LaChiusa and Jason Robert Brown. It's like blasphemy.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:31pm

I'm going with MattBrain about the Enchanted Hunter. EnchantedHunter you do have no taste. You have probably gone in a love thread of a show a said you despise it.

[TomMonster]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:33pm

Enchanted, I guess the group of 70 year old women sitting next to and have seen it a dozen times already (On and Off-Broadway), were just "teens" in drag...

Everywhere I go in town, people have been talking about the show. The fact that the CD virtually sold out at every store in Manhattan before noon on the day of release means the "backlash" has set in?!?

You're entitled to your opinion on your enjoyment of the show, but I really don't know what audience you're talking about.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:36pm

EnchantedHunter doesn't live in Germany.

Every time he posts he changes his alias and location.

He thinks it's witty.

But it's kinda pathetic.

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:38pm

"If you're planning on becoming an actor or something, you will be fired on the first day of rehearsal. Hell, they'll fire you at the audition."

Sorry to disappoint you, MB, but I'm on the other side of the desk.




David Belasco
In my office, NYC

[McFrenzied]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:51pm

Ew. David Belasco?? Enchanted, you're really starting to freak me out..could you..um..maybe leave??

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:56pm

You've been here for two months.

If you want to survive here you're going to have to learn to put up with worse than that.

[McFrenzied]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 7:10pm

It just seemed like a crazy thing to do, switching identities with such manic glee like that...
I'm glad other people here are sane and have thoughtful things to say!