Ok so this post is inevitable, it was just a question of when...well the answer is now because I need to get these thoughts out.
I was first presented the music for Spring Awakening, a new musical, at the beginning of the year. My friend Shayna was raving about this new musical she'd heard, I let her put it on one night while driving her home and though I could barely here it....I felt a need to keep listening. So I borrowed the CD and listened to it whenever I was in the car. Naturally, a second listen before I really heard the music and I quickly realized I was listening to something brilliant. It wasn't like other musicals, I felt like I was listening to a pop group, not a cast performing numbers usually seen on stage. I was inspired, I sought out as much information as I could...it was definitely helpful that I was taking a musical theatre seminar and there were three of us in the class who just kept relating everything back to this show....which none of us had seen!
So long story short....I NEEDED to see this show...I spread the soundtrack out to 3 more friends and we all kept talking about needing to see the show....we spent all summer NEEDING to see this show!
At the end of the summer I signed up for the Spring Awakening Fan Club which was just getting started....turns out so did Shayna. So at this point Shayna and I had planned to meet up after our first Thursday class at the beginning of September and book a trip based on when we could miss a Thursday because time was ticking, we needed to see the original cast and we couldn't wait much longer. As luck would have it, a day after signing up for the fan club, I'm sitting at an Improv rehearsal for the orientation show I was stage managing and my phone starts vibrating. It was Shayna and I had a funny feeling I needed to answer the phone....turns out I was right! Shayna had just checked her email and by some process that was very foggy to her at that moment she was staring at an offer to purchase 2 tickets on stage in row CC for a show on October 5th...and in the most spontaneous act ever...I told Shayna that even though we didn't know where we were staying, how we were getting there, and possibly how we were paying for it....BUY THE TICKETS! ...and she did....$1000 later I finally went to NYC for the first time in my life and got to see my new favourite musical.
Shayna and I took an early morning flight to New York, went shopping, took a nap, went for dinner....which was the fastest nice meal I've ever had, I was crazy nervous for some reason, it was really odd...I'm a dork!
So the entire trip was pretty much shopping and theatre. In addition to Spring Awakening, we also saw Forbidden Broadway's Rude Awakening and a fantastic off-broadway show - Altar Boyz. I highly recommend both if you're in the area. That's all that will be said about the rest of my trip...it was amazing, I love New York (what I've seen) and I need to live there for a year or 5 - this will probably be the topic of a future post.
Now I'll try to put my Spring Awakening experience in to words. We saw the show twice...we woke up early Sunday morning and spent our morning in line for rush tickets....we knew the second the lights went down on the first show that we would have to do this. This show was a whole new experience, one that I think everyone needs to have. There was something magical about sitting on stage and something mesmerizing about the performance. I know this is corny, but it's the only way I can describe it. I didn't want to leave my seat when it was over, I didn't want the show to be over....I wanted to be a part of it!
The show is revolutionary...as I told Jonathan Groff (the amazing actor who plays Melchior, the male lead) at the stage door...I want to bare the children of the lighting designer and the director is my new G-d...just to note this doesn't make any statement on my actual beliefs in G-d, it's just a saying....So the lighting design is like nothing I've ever seen and it's amazing! Whomever's decision it was to place audience on stage was a genius and the show itself was touching....(no pun intended for those who know the show) It was funny and sad and innocent (this should be added into the curriculum of world's of childhood) and ultimately just beautiful!
I could probably talk in circles about this show for a very long time, but I won't. Instead, I invite anyone who desires to start conversations about this with me. For now, I'll just leave this post as a simple representation of the feelings and thoughts that come up with regards to this show.
I don't care if I'm a dork, I promise I'm not as obsessed as it may seem. This show makes me happy and what's wrong with that? It feels good to get these thoughts down in words, and I'm not sorry if it's weird.
I was first presented the music for Spring Awakening, a new musical, at the beginning of the year. My friend Shayna was raving about this new musical she'd heard, I let her put it on one night while driving her home and though I could barely here it....I felt a need to keep listening. So I borrowed the CD and listened to it whenever I was in the car. Naturally, a second listen before I really heard the music and I quickly realized I was listening to something brilliant. It wasn't like other musicals, I felt like I was listening to a pop group, not a cast performing numbers usually seen on stage. I was inspired, I sought out as much information as I could...it was definitely helpful that I was taking a musical theatre seminar and there were three of us in the class who just kept relating everything back to this show....which none of us had seen!
So long story short....I NEEDED to see this show...I spread the soundtrack out to 3 more friends and we all kept talking about needing to see the show....we spent all summer NEEDING to see this show!
At the end of the summer I signed up for the Spring Awakening Fan Club which was just getting started....turns out so did Shayna. So at this point Shayna and I had planned to meet up after our first Thursday class at the beginning of September and book a trip based on when we could miss a Thursday because time was ticking, we needed to see the original cast and we couldn't wait much longer. As luck would have it, a day after signing up for the fan club, I'm sitting at an Improv rehearsal for the orientation show I was stage managing and my phone starts vibrating. It was Shayna and I had a funny feeling I needed to answer the phone....turns out I was right! Shayna had just checked her email and by some process that was very foggy to her at that moment she was staring at an offer to purchase 2 tickets on stage in row CC for a show on October 5th...and in the most spontaneous act ever...I told Shayna that even though we didn't know where we were staying, how we were getting there, and possibly how we were paying for it....BUY THE TICKETS! ...and she did....$1000 later I finally went to NYC for the first time in my life and got to see my new favourite musical.
Shayna and I took an early morning flight to New York, went shopping, took a nap, went for dinner....which was the fastest nice meal I've ever had, I was crazy nervous for some reason, it was really odd...I'm a dork!
So the entire trip was pretty much shopping and theatre. In addition to Spring Awakening, we also saw Forbidden Broadway's Rude Awakening and a fantastic off-broadway show - Altar Boyz. I highly recommend both if you're in the area. That's all that will be said about the rest of my trip...it was amazing, I love New York (what I've seen) and I need to live there for a year or 5 - this will probably be the topic of a future post.
Now I'll try to put my Spring Awakening experience in to words. We saw the show twice...we woke up early Sunday morning and spent our morning in line for rush tickets....we knew the second the lights went down on the first show that we would have to do this. This show was a whole new experience, one that I think everyone needs to have. There was something magical about sitting on stage and something mesmerizing about the performance. I know this is corny, but it's the only way I can describe it. I didn't want to leave my seat when it was over, I didn't want the show to be over....I wanted to be a part of it!
The show is revolutionary...as I told Jonathan Groff (the amazing actor who plays Melchior, the male lead) at the stage door...I want to bare the children of the lighting designer and the director is my new G-d...just to note this doesn't make any statement on my actual beliefs in G-d, it's just a saying....So the lighting design is like nothing I've ever seen and it's amazing! Whomever's decision it was to place audience on stage was a genius and the show itself was touching....(no pun intended for those who know the show) It was funny and sad and innocent (this should be added into the curriculum of world's of childhood) and ultimately just beautiful!
I could probably talk in circles about this show for a very long time, but I won't. Instead, I invite anyone who desires to start conversations about this with me. For now, I'll just leave this post as a simple representation of the feelings and thoughts that come up with regards to this show.
I don't care if I'm a dork, I promise I'm not as obsessed as it may seem. This show makes me happy and what's wrong with that? It feels good to get these thoughts down in words, and I'm not sorry if it's weird.
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