Mar 5, 2008

Spring Awakening... Again!!


I saw SA yet again last night and it was fantastic as usual. I went with a group of friends and I talked them into staying afterwards to meet the cast because I knew they would have a blast. Here are some pictures from last night!


My group of friends and I with Blake Daniel (Ernst)


The group with Blake Bashoff (Moritz)

Skylar Astin (George) and I


The Group with Brian Charles Johnson (Otto). He goes to NYU!

I had to save the best for last! Jonathan Groff (Melchior) and I. I asked him if he's ever heard of potato candy (he's from Lancaster). He has not.

5 comments:

broadway girl said...

Sorry to sound ignorant, but what does SA mean?

Laura said...

SA is a short hand for Spring Awakening (the musical)

Laura said...

I was just being lazy. Haha

broadway girl said...

Cool. What's it about?

Laura said...

Here's the full description: (www.springawakening.com)

SPRING AWAKENING takes its inspiration from one of literature’s most controversial masterpieces – a work so daring in its depiction of teenage self-discovery, it was banned from the stage and not performed in its complete form in English for nearly 100 years.

It’s Germany, 1891. A world where the grown-ups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body, and wonders aloud where babies come from, till Mama tells her to shut it, and put on a proper dress.

Elsewhere, the brilliant and fearless young Melchior interrupts a mind-numbing Latin drill to defend his buddy Moritz – a boy so traumatized by puberty he can’t concentrate on anything. Not that the Headmaster cares. He strikes them both and tells them to turn in their lesson.

One afternoon – in a private place in the woods – Melchior and Wendla meet by accident, and soon find within themselves a desire unlike anything they’ve ever felt.

As they fumble their way into one another’s arms, Moritz flounders and soon fails out of school. When even his one adult friend, Melchior’s mother, ignores his plea for help, he is left so distraught he can’t hear the promise of life offered by his outcast friend Ilse.

Naturally, the Headmasters waste no time in pinning the “crime” of Moritz’s suicide on Melchior and expel him. And soon Mama learns her little Wendla is pregnant. Now the young lovers must struggle against all odds to build a world together for their child.