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what are your thoughts on the alterations made to Spring Awakening in their Tony performance?

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#6

re: what are your thoughts on the alterations made to Spring Awakening in t

From the perspective of what relation it has to the actual piece? Preposterous.

As concerns what people will discover as they investigate what is actually there? Priceless.

You seem to think that everyone who watched would have a clue what to compare it to. Wrong. There are those who saw that, realized that things had been altered for censor purposes, and will then go find out what the content REALLY is - and another ticket will be sold.

I thought their choice was brilliant - from a business standpoint.
#7

re: what are your thoughts on the alterations made to Spring Awakening in t

I enjoyed watching Groff dancing and sing like the rest of the guys in Bitch of Living...

Similarly, I thought it was awesome to see John Gallagher Jr dance during Totally F*cked, since he normally isnt there...

I loved the modulation at the end of MWBM (Reprise)...neat segue.
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#11

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I found that after I watched it it, I had to take a moment to comprehend what I had seen. There was so much going on. I liked it though. Totalally F***** is one of their best songs. In my opinion, how could they not do some of it? Did John Gallagher run out of breath or something in the Bitch of Living?
#12

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I thought it was absolutely ridiculous.
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#14

re: what are your thoughts on the alterations made to Spring Awakening in t

Those who have no idea what Spring Awakening is would have had no idea there was anything different going on.

And based on that performance, I doubt those people are going to run out and buy tickets to see it anyway.
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#15

re: what are your thoughts on the alterations made to Spring Awakening in t

Wisely planned, cleverly constructed, and tightly executed.
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#17

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I didn't mind the alterations that much, until they got to Totally Fu- excuse me, Totally .... I thought excluding the words was obvious and childish. Seriously... why not just change the lyrics to be "Totally Lame"?
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#18

re: what are your thoughts on the alterations made to Spring Awakening in t

I thought the performance was great in the beginning with Mama Who Bore Me. I don't understand why they had to change so many of the lyrics from Bitch of Living. John Gallagher Jr was really out of breath but I'm sure there was a reason. When we got to Totally F*CKed, the censors kind of annoyed me because it sounded so strange. If I were someone who was just watching the Tonys I would have been so confused. The lighting and everything looked amazing though, like always.
#23

re: what are your thoughts on the alterations made to Spring Awakening in t

As someone who's never seen it, and honestly had no intention of seeing it, it certainly made me interested in seeing it.
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#25

re: what are your thoughts on the alterations made to Spring Awakening in t

Why must they do Totally F***ed? Really? It just drew more attention to the lyrics to do that. Geez.
It was really dreadful as a whole-better to do one song really well, IMO, than a bunch in a mediocre way.
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