Which do you prefer: GREY GARDENS or SPRING AWAKENING?- Page 2

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 1:18am

I watched the Documentary tonight. Ebersole's Little Edie is beyond words. She got her down so well, it is scary. Ebersole gives one of the greatest performances I have ever seen in my entire life.
"They can get you for wearing red shoes on a Thursday" (Little Edie)

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 3:54am

To whoever asked about the onstage seating for Spring Awakening, yes, it's worth it. The only thing you really miss is when they are right out in front of the stage you can't see everyone's facial expressions...but you are right in the action and it's great. There's no audience participation, besides just being really close to the performers.

And again, I still haven't seen the documentary, but I loved Grey Gardens anyway, moreso than SA even, and I'm their target demographic.

[jv92]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 6:51pm

Grey Gardens. Brilliant piece. Spring Awakening is stale bread compared to Grey Gardens.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 6:57pm

Ok jv92 we get it you don't like Spring Awakening. There is no need to post you don't like it a bunch of times.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 7:47pm

Judging by recordings, Spring Awakening by just a smidge...

[little_sally]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 8:03pm

Becoz_i_knew_you21, you took the words right out of my mouth!

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 8:25pm

I like Grapefruit

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 3:36pm

GREY GARDENS!!! Spring Awakening has a good score, but for me that's about its only good point. Grey Gardens has a good score and oh so much more.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 3:59pm

Every morning when I'm getting ready for class and putting on my shoes, "read shoes" always comes out of my mouth.

Ebersole gave one of the performances I've ever seen, so moving.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 6:01pm

I just found SPRING AWAKENING to be superior in every way to GREY GARDENS. The book, the score, the performances, everything about SPRING was consistently superb, in comparison with GREY GARDENS which has some good performances, a second rate book and an almost entirely uninteresting score.

I will not forget or forgive that idiotic "Entering Grey Gardens" number. It looked like some cheesy community theatre production of Disney's Haunted Mansion, or some horrific leftover from DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 9:12pm

Easy call. GREY GARDENS. The finest score of the year and a heartbreaking, already legendary tour-de-force performance at the center. Traditional Broadway musical songwriting at its finest.

SPRING AWAKENING is pretty good. It has great staging and choreography, some terrific performances and thrillingly good songs (as well as several that are utterly banal and mediocre). But the plot - especially in Act 2 - comes across as a mitteleuropean version of UNTAMED YOUTH, WHAT PRICE INNOCENCE? or any other B-movie teen potboilers from the 1930s-1950s. It's a welcome addition to Broadway, but it's laughably overhyped.

A small point: Once again, the gay characters are made into comic relief - they weren't in Wedekind's original play.

Updated On: 12/22/06 at 09:12 PM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 10:06pm

A small point: in GREY GARDENS, the gay character is used for even more stereotypical purposes: he is witty, broke, plays the piano, smokes, and dies a pathetic death.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 10:33pm

Which is exactly what happened to George Gould Strong.

Updated On: 12/22/06 at 10:33 PM