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Post by martin1965 on Nov 14, 2017 13:29:18 GMT
Have been waiting for Spring Awakening so excited by this! Cant match others enthusiasm for Aspects im afraid.
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Post by spendleb on Nov 14, 2017 13:42:21 GMT
Have been waiting for Spring Awakening so excited by this! Cant match others enthusiasm for Aspects im afraid. Snap, hated Aspects, watching paint dry is preferable. So excited to finally see Spring Awakening though! |
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Post by boybooshka on Nov 14, 2017 14:56:13 GMT
Always happy for another chance to see Spring Awakening, Aspects though, just the thought of sitting through it again has me dozing off..............
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Post by Mark on Nov 14, 2017 16:39:08 GMT
Never seen Aspects. I was £1 short in cash for a ticket to the tour when I was a 17 year old student, and didn't have a card with me... Maybe this time if it gets a transfer.
Spring I've seen in New York, Lyric Hammersmith and West End, all excellent. The small UK tour that did Greenwich was horrendously bad though. Just goes to show a bad production can make a good show suck.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2017 16:51:13 GMT
Never seen Aspects. I was £1 short in cash for a ticket to the tour when I was a 17 year old student, and didn't have a card with me... Maybe this time if it gets a transfer. Spring I've seen in New York, Lyric Hammersmith and West End, all excellent. The small UK tour that did Greenwich was horrendously bad though. Just goes to show a bad production can make a good show suck.Couldn’t agree more there... I often wonder what Les Mis, Phantom, Saigon etc would have been like in the wrong hands. Would they be what they are today without the right production team at the time? |
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Post by sam22 on Nov 14, 2017 18:51:44 GMT
Never seen Aspects. I was £1 short in cash for a ticket to the tour when I was a 17 year old student, and didn't have a card with me... Maybe this time if it gets a transfer. Spring I've seen in New York, Lyric Hammersmith and West End, all excellent. The small UK tour that did Greenwich was horrendously bad though. Just goes to show a bad production can make a good show suck.Couldn’t agree more there... I often wonder what Les Mis, Phantom, Saigon etc would have been like in the wrong hands. Would they be what they are today without the right production team at the time? What didn't you both like about the tour? I saw it at Greenwich having seen it previously at Hammersmith but I can't really remember the differences. I actually quite enjoyed the NYMT production last summer! |
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Post by viserys on Nov 16, 2017 8:26:02 GMT
I love the soundtrack of Spring Awakening, but I think there are a few problems with it.
a) Broadway has a strange habit of having small shows that are blown way out of proportion - Spring Awakening is one of those, others I can think of are Once, Fun Home or now Come from Away. These shows (IMHO) belong in small-ish fringe theatres the size of the Menier or Southwark at corresponding prices. I wouldn't pay Broadway prices for them (well, actually I did, but I went for cheap tickets for both Spring Awakening and Fun Home and sat far back and didn't enjoy the shows at all because they require intimacy) and I can see how London audiences didn't want to part with a lot of money for a small unknown show with -then- unknown young performers. I'm sure it would have done better in one of the small fringe venues.
b) The original version had a pretty bizarre staging and weird choreography that made it all a bit absurd. I guess the sense of "heightened reality" was what they were going for, but it alienated the characters to me.
c) The original drama by Frank Wedekind is rather overblown. I am aware that he intended to "shock" the audience of his day (and he surely did) but Wendla's story especially is just ridiculously melodramatic. One night with a boy promptly leads to pregnancy, promptly leads to a botched abortion and death. There's also something iffy how Melchior pushes himself onto her in what we today would consider rape.
I wanted to like this show badly because I love the soundtrack. After the disappointment on Broadway, which I put down to the bad seat in the last row of the circle, I tried again when we were super lucky to catch the US Tour in San Francisco during what was just a regular holiday in California and liked it more from the front stalls. Then I saw it again in Vienna with a friend who didn't know the show at all and seeing it "through her eyes" (as you do when you wonder what the person you dragged along might be thinking) it did occur to me how weird it all is. I still regret that I was so tired of the show by then that I didn't bother with the London version and thus missed the young Iwan Rheon and Aneurin Bernard who both went on to much much bigger things. But yea, I think it deserves a revival in a smaller venue with a better director.
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Post by talkstageytome on Nov 16, 2017 9:15:24 GMT
Spring Awakening has been one of my fave musicals basically since I really got in to musical theatre properly (I was a Disney/ R&H only girl until Glee > Jonathan Groff > Spring Awakening back in the day 😂) so I'm pretty excited about that one. Agree that it does have some odd elements to it and the Wendla Melchior relationship is definitely uncomfortable. I still find it a ridiculously fun, and extremely emotive musical, with some of my favourite MT songs of all time.
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Post by viserys on Nov 16, 2017 9:26:13 GMT
True story: My NY-based friend and I were doing a two-show day and after the matinee went to the theatre where Spring Awakening was playing to pick up our tickets for the evening. Jonathan Groff was lurking outsisde the stage door and alone and while I personally would have been too shy to approach him during what was presumably his downtime, my friend immediately chattered at him and told him that I was from Germany, so we talked a bit about Wedekind, German theatre and so on. I didn't have a Spring Awakening playbill yet, but LUCKILY I had bought the full script at the Drama Book Store earlier, so he signed that for me. One of my most treasured memories of Broadway and I've had a soft spot for Groff ever since!
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Post by talkstageytome on Nov 16, 2017 9:52:19 GMT
Oh my gosh what a brilliant story! And an amazing keepsake to remember it by! I don't do stagedooring and haven't for years but for Jonathan Groff I actually would. Tried it after the How To Succeed concert he was in here a few years ago but there must have been hundreds of people there and obviously he didn't come out.
It's amazing how many actors careers started with Spring Awakening!
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Post by viserys on Nov 16, 2017 9:55:41 GMT
Indeed! I very rarely do stagedoors (I made an exception for Damian Lewis in London, ahem) but when my friend approached Groff, I could hardly tell her nope, don't do that, like he was radioactive.
And yea, Spring Awakening is a fantastic show for young newcomers. There are a few clips of the London production on youtube and I have to laugh, seeing how young and innocent Iwan Rheon and Aneurin Bernard looked back then. Man, now I really want a London revival somewhere small. Maybe this one will transfer!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 17:07:56 GMT
Michael Arden's recent Broadway revival of Spring Awakening was so pitch perfect, it will be interesting to see how the two compare. One of those shows that is so hard to get right!
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Post by mallardo on Nov 16, 2017 18:07:44 GMT
Michael Arden's recent Broadway revival of Spring Awakening was so pitch perfect, it will be interesting to see how the two compare. One of those shows that is so hard to get right!
Michael Mayer's original production got it exactly right - hence its huge success on Broadway and around the US.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 17, 2017 14:38:00 GMT
Splitting earlier combined thread.
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Post by georgie on Nov 21, 2017 23:34:05 GMT
Do you think this will transfer to London? I so badly want to see it but Manchester is too far away for me  |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 21, 2017 23:39:09 GMT
Do you think this will transfer to London? I so badly want to see it but Manchester is too far away for me Welcome to the forum georgie. Well, who knows! The last three Hope Mill/Aria productions have transferred so there’s a reasonable chance. Keep your fingers crossed! |
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Post by martin1965 on Dec 18, 2017 17:48:42 GMT
Anyone know when booking opens for this? Thought it might be this week now Little Women has finished.
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Post by stevej678 on Dec 18, 2017 17:55:59 GMT
Anyone know when booking opens for this? Thought it might be this week now Little Women has finished. Early next year according to the theatre. |
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Post by martin1965 on Dec 18, 2017 18:19:17 GMT
Anyone know when booking opens for this? Thought it might be this week now Little Women has finished. Early next year according to the theatre. Thanx |
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 22, 2018 10:50:18 GMT
This is scheduled to open in two months yet there is still nothing on the Hope Mill site, is it still happening?
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Post by talkstageytome on Jan 22, 2018 13:44:42 GMT
I presume so. I think they did open auditions a week or so ago.
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Post by pajonk on Jan 22, 2018 21:37:43 GMT
This is scheduled to open in two months yet there is still nothing on the Hope Mill site, is it still happening? I've already booked flights and hotel in Manchester - dear God, I hope this IS happening. Hello everyone BTW. I've been lurking this forum for a long time, but haven't had courage to write.  I'm Michał and I live in Poland, still I love musicals so much that few times during the year I travel to UK to see some shows. |
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Post by crabtree on Jan 22, 2018 21:47:54 GMT
Hallo Michal and welcome to this site. I'm sure this will happen in Manchester. as others have said there have been auditions in the last few weeks. It will be good to welcome you to Manchester, and you don't need courage to write on these pages. Generally it is a friendly place. Welcome. barry
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Post by pajonk on Jan 26, 2018 23:56:45 GMT
Thank you for kind words.  Good news - as it follows from the Facebook profile of the theatre, tickets will go on sale on Monday. |
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 27, 2018 7:02:07 GMT
Thank you for kind words. Good news - as it follows from the Facebook profile of the theatre, tickets will go on sale on Monday. Thanks for the heads up, about flipping time! Planning an Easter getaway oop north with this and Paint your Wagon in Liverpool. |
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I'm Michał and I live in Poland, still I love musicals so much that few times during the year I travel to UK to see some shows.
Good news - as it follows from the Facebook profile of the theatre, tickets will go on sale on Monday.