Spring Awakening: A Deep Dive
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Spring Awakening is a unique musical. Although other rock musicals with strong messages had been created before it, its focus on teenagers and their growing pains brought it to the forefront in the mid-00's. Credited for bring Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele and several others to the mainstream, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's musical has since been revived multiple times and is still quite relevant.
List of themes: docs.google.com/document/d/1W...
00:00 Intro
01:20 History
11:56 Plot
14:43 Play/Musical
23:15 Song Changes
36:26 Post-Broadway - Розваги
the deaf production of this show is by far my favorite, it was so creative and innovative with how it combined sign language and choreography and the fact its tour got cancelled is an absolute shame! despite it opening the door for more disability inclusive theater not many shows have taken up its mantle, though seeing ali stroker, who was in this production, be cast in the oklahoma revival and win a tony was amazing.
its tragic that the deaf version of the show will probably never exist in that form again, but it added new layers to the story in such a beautiful way that it really became the definitive version for me. the way the kids and particularly moritz are treated now contains elements of ableism, tying the original themes of the musical and reframing them without changing a single line, only the staging. and the stagingof the voices and their main actors also adds so much symbolism and haunting moments
Completely agree. DWSA deserved better. It was the best version of the musical.
I really didn’t like Spring Awakening until I saw that production. And, like I saw in an interview, with some of the characters being deaf and some not, it adds a whole new layer of the whole “miscommunication” aspect of the show. It’s just a really beautiful and well done production it’s really phenomenal!
My uncle played the professor in the DWSA run! I saw it while it was on broadway, I was a little too young to really understand it but it was an awesome first broadway show!
I still get so sad about the tour. I wanted to see it so much!
My favorite Spring Awakening related story is when my parents didn’t know anything about it, just knew it was popular, they took my dad’s business clients to see it in NYC.
And did they like it or were they appalled?
@@DiabloSandwich59 I think they were more mortified than anything else
THANK U FOR ATTEMPTING TO REVIVE THIS FANDOM WE’VE BEEN TRYING
Spring Awakening is a super nostalgic musical for me, it was the first bootleg I ever watched (in 10 minute parts on youtube, so you know how long ago THAT was...). I was super into Glee at the time and the prospect of seeing Lea Michele semi-naked was tantalising for my baby gay self. I felt so scandalous. The production that's just as nostalgic for me is the original West End production, because Lucy May Barker uploaded rehearsal videos on her UA-cam channel, which are still available in all their 2000s potato quality glory! Iwan Rheon was great as Moritz, as well.
That's exactly what I mean, it hit a perfect niche at the perfect time (gotta love those 10 part bootlegs)! The amount of nostalgia this show triggers these days is nuts, even as someone who got into it at a later point. I'm just glad to see it still hits the spot with some of the more recent revivals too!
No way, same exact thing for me, except my gay ass was watching for Jonathan Groff lol. I didn't really get it back then tho (I didn't speak English that well) but I got super into it a few years later
As a gay fan of the show, I was perfectly content that “Word Of Your Body (Reprise)” was given to Hänschen and Ernst - it was my favorite moment in the show for a long time simply for the power of representation - until I found out here that the song was originally written just for them, but then was given first to the hetero couple, only to shorten and abridge the song for the queers. Still love it, and “Spring Awakening,” of course, but that put a bad taste in my mouth.
My high school did the show my senior year and it was genuinely one one the most eye opening experiences I’ve ever had in school. This show not only taught us so many important life situations but it also but put on in the middle of Roe V Wade. Our teachers were worried that there would be literal protesters outside (Luckily there weren’t). I fucking love this show and I love how my school wasn’t scared to push the boundaries during such a hard time with such a beautiful show.
Wow I can’t believe you got to do this for a highscool show
i absolutely ADORE this show, i never see anyone talk about it despite how popular it is/was!! it's got one of my favorite soundtracks and had such an amazing cast. might have to convert some of my friends into spring awakening fans lmao
I USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THESE OMG
There needs to be a movie adaptation of Spring Awakening
this, but I need to build a time machine and get John Gallagher Jr to still play Moritz in it because I can't possibly accept anyone else
@@saranapolitano5453 he’s way too old. I’m sure someone else could play him
@@GamingSaturnMoonManBoy that's why I said I need a time machine 😅 I know he's too old and I know there's surely someone out there who would be just as able to give that role justice, but I just love JGJ as Moritz so much that I wish this movie had been made when he could still play him...
@@saranapolitano5453 have you seen the deaf west version? Their Moritz is outstanding! In fact for me, the deaf west version is even better than the original.
@@b_a_t_m_a_n_ not yet but I want to check it out asap, everyone seems to be crazy about it!
Spring Awakening is the musical that got me into musical theatre. I don't even remember how I found it anymore, but I was a teenager at the time, and I always remember thinking that I'm probably the only person who watched Glee because I heard the Spring Awakening people were in it and not the other way around.
YOU SHOULD DO A DIVE ON NEXT TO NORMAL!! there isn’t much on it at least not on youtube also i’ve loved spring awakening for years but i’ve never heard of the masked man until this watch he’s hilarious
goddamn Patrick Page really has been in everything lol. incredible deep dive, thank you!
wait which version was patrick in , how did i miss this??
@@emziedodd2445 He played the voice of the adult man in the 2015 Deaf West version.
@@amdaly1-iz3vb thanks so much/ it turns out patrick has truly been in everything haha
god this needs so many more views!! such a lovely video!
i was in nyc recently and when riding the subway, kept making eye contact w a guy bc he kept looking at my spring awakening tattoo. after a few minutes i realized it was alex weiss from dwsa! it was such a fun, surprising little meeting🖤
This is everything! Spring Awakening is my second favorite show, surpassed only by Les Mis. I adore the OBC and saw both national tour casts. Sat onstage for the second national tour, and at one point in the show George Salazar was sat right next to me!
Hi everyone! After some time out, we return this December with a video about a completely outside the season musical: Spring Awakening. Hailing from the mid-00's, this musical was a true mark of the time, though its various re-stagings alongside its timeless themes have kept it relevant since then. (Edit: I got a few American words wrong as a non-native speaker in between all the German names, so please keep that in mind!) Hope you enjoy the video, please let us know if there's any other shows you'd like us to deep dive into like this one! Like, subscribe, share with your mysterious masked men.
that line about 'maybe i could be some kind of laundry line' is so ... ugh. it's so fitting for a musical that portrays teen struggles so well. i only discovered the musical as an adult but I absolutely love it
I wish this video had existed last year-my high school did Spring Awakening as my senior show, and it was hard to find good resources to research and prepare for such an endeavor. As the lead costumer, I felt responsible for a lot of the visual storytelling, and I’m very proud of what we all created as a team!
Great video! I am one of the crazy original fans who saw the broadway production 8 times lol Also, 2007-2008 was such an incredible time for online community with this show; I literally made friends from joining online forums, meeting up at 6 AM lines for student rush tickets; we'd all go out for brunch after, and then see the show together that night. Just a whole amazing world of community through this production and so many fond memories that I'll have for a lifetime.
Same here. I saw the show 21 times on Broadway. and was part of the guilty ones forum and made friends and saw the show with them too. Such great memories!
My algorithm has blessed me with a video essay on the musical that has saved my life 😭. Instant subscribe
enjoyed this video so much, especially in that you went into the play- very special to me and lacking in most Spring Awakening discussion!!
Glad you enjoyed! I feel no one ever talks about the play so always happy to give some further focus to it!
That last London production wasn’t actually West End, its technically forcing e/off west end, and it was the same theatre that premiered Duncan’s American Psycho musical. I actually gasped when There Once Was A Pirate started, and I loved it as a kind of fan Easter egg, but I missed The Guilty Ones lol I didnt love the production either, but I seemed to be in the minority!
That should have said *fringe/off west end! 😂😂🤦
Fun Spring Awakening fact, some of the songs cut from Spring Awakening were repurchased into Sheik and Sater's next musical Alice by Heart! West of Words was written for Melchior as an opening, and Winter Blooms was written for the closing number but was replaced with Purple Summer.
I saw this production approx. 9 times with the original casts and others in both West coast and East coast, I guess you can consider myself a super fan and a bit obsessed and loved this coming of stage production.
The Snickers commercial made me burst out laughing
Thank you. I really enjoyed the information I gained. My granddaughter was in a university production during Covid so it all had to be on zoom which was too bad after all the work they put in.
Happy to see y’all back!
Going to be playing Hanschen in local independent production of Spring Awakening here in Montreal in June. This video is remarkable. It has given me far more profound understanding of the history of this amazing show. Thank you so much for making it❤
This is such a well put together video! I really adore this show so it's awesome to see it slowly getting more and more buzz into the mainstream:D Great doc!
After finishing this, I really wanna listen to the album!
Great documentary 👏
I first discovered this musical in middle school and loved the song "I don't do sadness" (if that's the lyric)
I knew only a little about the material. But I never realized how intense it was!
I still would like to see an adaptation of it one day.
As a german-speaker who read this play in school a good 14 years ago, I could not remember the plot, so thanks for the recap.
Thank you so much! This show means so much to me and was wanting a youtube doc like this one
Thanks, so glad you enjoyed!
I loved this musical in high school! I once saw a Christian high school production which definitely made a lot of interesting choices. Hanschen and Ernst didn’t kiss, they perform the scene while tossing a football back and forth. Instead of the beating scene, Wendla kisses Melchior and it makes him freak out. Melchior had a giant lion tattoo on his chest. There were no adult actors, just the kids standing behind wooden cutouts of Victorian silhouettes.
The parallels to Rent make sense cause Spring Awakening is also exhilaratingly navel gazing. It probably would have been better off set in the 50s.
i just started the video and immediately just want to say thank you!!! not enough discussion on this show!!!!
I saw the touring company twice! I even got a stage seat. I am a huge fan, your video was great!
It’s a real shame that they couldn’t get the masked man to work. In the original play, he feels like Wedekind stepping in to the play to apologise to the children on behalf of the adult generation and offer a way forward for Melchior to redeem himself and get the support he needs.
This was very well put together! Thank you so much for your efforts. I love this show so much!
do you know if the "on-stage seats" concept was part of the earlier productions? because i've seen that on at least one production of Shakespeare's R&J by Joe Calarco, which I'm pretty sure ran in NYC while Spring Awakening was in workshops, and given the themes of the two plays are pretty close knit, I wouldn't be surprised if they took inspiration from that.
Aaaahhh!! Welcome back guys!!
Told you we’d be back around soon! 😁 Hope you enjoyed the video!
@@TheDramaDorks And I'm so glad you are! Btw yes, very much enjoyed the video! I've actually never seen Spring Awakening-- I was 19, almost 20, when it premiered on Broadway so I was already past that entering teen hood "Coming of Age" stage of my life and had already been inundated with "Coming of Age" media by that point, so yet *another* thing about the subject never really interested me. I only really watched the medley they performed at the Tonys with the OBC that one year, and all other interactions with the musical have been secondhand through videos from musical-focused UA-camrs such as you guys, Diva from Musical Hell (her Know The Score video about the book that inspired the musical), Musical Theatre Mash, Musicals with Cheese, Wait in the Wings and so on... but even then, I still enjoy the videos and the work everyone puts into them!
Also, congrats on 13k subs!! You guys deserve every one and I am excited to see your star continue to soar! 🌟
This is SO good!!!! Thank you for this!
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!!
I've watched this 3-4 times,
it never gets old.
One of my very favorite shows! Thank you for this. I’d love a deep dive on Kinky Boots.
Incredible Musical and the score is AMAZING!!!
God i hope the pro shot will be released as a film at some point 🤞🤞
tbh id sit through 9 hours of spring awakening
we performed the original awakening of spring as a one-act in high school😭 crazy that it was compressed into 40 minutes and thrown at high school audiences and their parents with no trigger warnings (although that probably was the original target audience so yay)
this video is amazing omg
1:51 is there a source for this? i’d love to use this quote in my essay
i’m on costume design for a re making of this beautiful piece, this video was so much help, thank you!
Fun video! Thank you
my absolute favorite musical of all time. i even have a spring awakening tattoo
goated musical
Do you have any more information on the second Budapest production of SA? (like articles, more photos, etc) The entire concept sounds so ambitious and interesting.. I need to know more😭
Happy to help out! Someone actually did a full write-up on the production here: musicalvillage.proboards.com/thread/1880/tavasz-bred-spring-awakening-budapest
late to the party but I found myself in the Spring Awakening fandom after rewatching 90210 and being curious about it
And in 2024 there is a production taking place in Milwaukee with Skylight Theater that is hoping to right those wrongs in the Deaf revival! I will be seeing it this weekend!
I wish it would be performed more I can never find it live in my city it’s the only thing I have ever wanted to see like PLEASE😭
Been watching all your videos and really enjoy them. Both of your are so well spoken and engaging. Your videos are really intelligent and well researched.
Just be careful about mispronouncing things that someone with a broader knowledge base should know how to pronounce. It instantly hurts your credibility despite how great your essays are.
EpisCOPal? Ok maybe you don’t have much knowledge or interest in religion but still an easy Google or UA-cam search will help get it right.
Porjee and Bess? For video essays that are focused on musical theatre, mispronouncing a famous and groundbreaking piece of American theater is not a good look (even if it might be considered kinda problematic today).
It’s like when another theater kid girl in high school that liked me and was trying to impress me and decided to research and do a speech in class about opera (I grew up around it) and told me in a kind of full-of-herself way that she had talked in class about opera composers like Richard Wagner - but she pronounced it like an American who’d never actually heard the name would instead of Reecard Vagner like it’s actually pronounced. I after a beat of confusion I burst out laughing. Suffice it to say we didn’t end up together lol.
Like they say- if you know, you know, and when you’re doing a video essay you wanna know. Anyway we’ve all done it before, but since you do so incredibly well with your research I just wanted you to protect your credibility.
Love you guys!
a friend gave me a cd of the soundtrack while I was dealing with every issue in this play except abortion. life changing.
Haaa remember reading (and then seeing a production of) the original play in what must've been 9th or 10th grade
I was listening to spring awakening on my iPod and didn't even know what I was listening to.. I didn't know it was a musical 😂😂 I just liked the songs
Now you have me wondering what show I actually saw in a repertory production in 2024 on the coast of New Hampshire.
I think we saw the same production! I have very mixed feelings about how technology was incorporated, and didn’t like how some of the staging literalized the more poetic lyrics, but the music was gorgeous and the acting was quite good.
really interesting video. Thanks
11:56
Huh. It seems really iffy to me, to turn an SA scene into something that is *still* definitely not enthusiastically or informedly consented to but calling it him “helping” her find her sexuality.
The day we stop referring to love for artists as "parasocial" society will advance
Parasocial is a neutral term for a relationship where you know much more about someone than they know about you. I think it is important to acknowledge that these are one sided relationships because there are obsessive fans who can take things too far and it’s not wrong to point that out.
Ugh. Like everything Lea M touches, she ruined that documentary for me, too.
Imagine being THAT talented, and still so unlikeable you ruin projects
Grow up.
If the idea of seeing clips of a problematic person you dislike ruins something for you, that seems like a you problem and not need to share. That said, there was no reason the creator of this video needed to add Lea tidbit to his video. But really if something like that gets you upset I fear for when you have real problems.
Problematic people *should* be called out. If you really think that holding Shiksarella accountable for her racism is indicative of emotional immaturity… that’s a YOU problem, hon. But keep on being complicit.
@@largeposterior08 Name-calling and acting like whining about her inclusion in a video is not holding her accountable, though, don't fool yourself. It was just whiny nothing else obviously she would be in the video, maybe if they are so sensitive to such silly things they should have just ignore.
I was very excited when I went to watch the musical... but I kinda hated 90% of the music
Excellent video! It’s especially interesting to hear about non replica productions taking the material in different directions, as I just saw a regional production that incorporated modern technology. The production design didn’t always work but it was very well acted and performed.