Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
#1Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/19/06 at 11:45pm
They both came from off-Broadway origins. They both received mixed critical/patron reaction. They both have merits and flaws placing it into a borderline position.
Which show do you prefer? If you had to see one again, which would you see?
My answer is Act I of SPRING AWAKENING and Act II of GREY GARDENS. 
But honestly...I think I'd have to go with SPRING AWAKENING. Whilst I think GREY GARDENS was more solid, I just wanted to give SPRING AWAKENING another try. I didn't leave the show moved, I left it wanting to be moved. Unfulfilled. And I feel like if I see it again, I will be...(but perhaps not?)
--Aristotle
#2re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/19/06 at 11:47pmApples and Oranges, honey.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#2re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/19/06 at 11:48pm
I Like them both.
But I think GREY GARDENS is more to my taste.
#3re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/19/06 at 11:48pm
Yes and no, honey. lol
It can certainly be difficult to answer. But if I had to choose between an apple and an orange right now, I'd choose an orange.
--Aristotle
#4re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/19/06 at 11:51pmGrey Gardens.
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#5re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 12:02am
I preferred Grey Gardens to Spring Awakening. I went into Spring Awakening having heard one song and knowing the premise, and I was really excited about it, and though I enjoyed it I wasn't particularly moved like I thought I would be. I went into Grey Gardens knowing nothing about it except that Ebersole was supposedly giving a legendary performance, and I left absolutely floored by it and her.
I would like to see both again, but if I get to the city again anytime soon I know it will be Spring Awakening, because no one I know will want to see Grey Gardens.
TheaterBoy7777
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
#6re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 12:07amI liked them both but I pick Spring Awakening
#7re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 12:08amDon't mind Foster. He just likes to see himself post.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#8re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 12:10amOh and as long as we're comparing apples and oranges, I choose oranges.
#9re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 12:13amI feel like an orange, too.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#10re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 12:50am
I like CORN.
So does Jerry.
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#11re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 1:08amI changed my mind. Apples. I mean God please just let those apples fall.
#12re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 1:20am
Apples are forbidden.
Oh, wait. Wrong show.
Never mind.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#13re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 1:52am
Apples are Forbidden.(You cracked me up)
I loved both shows for different reasons.
Christine Ebersole gave one if not the most riveting performance in GG. She moved me twice.
The music in Spring Awakening is a lot of fun. They are such different shows. That being said, I love both very much.
I can't stop listening to Spring Awakening but Ebersole made Grey Gardens for me.
PS Kristin Chenoweth made me smile the most this season in Apple Tree. I love her!
#14re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 2:08am
You beat me to it, Andy....
Apples and Kumquats!
#15re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 7:05amI'm seeing Spring Awakening Friday, but I am pretty sure my answer will be Grey Gardens. One of my favorite shows andjust terrific in every way!
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#16re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 7:56amI liked Grey Gardens a lot and thought Ebersole was amazing....I LOVED Spring Awakening beyond words!! I'm not really sure how you can compare the two but having to pick one it's w/o a doubt Spring Awakening.
#17re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 9:21am
Definitely Spring Awakening. No comparison.
Grey Gardens was a good show, but I don't think I would want to sit through it again right now. I could definitely see Spring Awakening many more times.
Updated On: 12/20/06 at 09:21 AM
alba
Chorus Member Joined: 5/16/06
#18re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 9:39am
is it worth going to see spring awakening if all you can do is sit onstage (i.e., $36 tickets)?
there's no participation involved, is there?
#19re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 9:48am
This is like comparing apples to oranges. They're both very different shows.
Updated On: 12/20/06 at 09:48 AM
#20re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 11:49am
Loved Spring Awakening but can't comment on Grey Gardens. Seeing it next week however, so I'll let you know. I love the original cast recording though.
It's true, they are totally different shows. Why not love both?
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#21re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 12:23pm
the score for Grey Gardens, as I have said,comes of as apretentious vanity piece to me.. the commercial makes me rollmy eyes every time I hear "another mask for a masquerade around and round I twirl."
I'll take SPRING over Grey.
#22re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 11:24pmGREY GARDENS hands down. Best musical since PIAZZA, and before that, who knows.
birdboy782
Stand-by Joined: 9/2/04
#23re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 11:28pm
Never saw the documentary before I saw GREY GARDENS -- and had no interest in it...was so bored...and didn't get Christine's "nuanced" performance...as had no context to put it in...
hands down...
SPRING AWAKENING.
#24re: Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?
Posted: 12/20/06 at 11:40pmOh, Grey Gardens. I'm obsessed!
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