I’ve said this before and I’m sure I’ll say it again but I am so grateful that the people in my life are so tolerant of my rants about Spring Awakening like it’s midnight and my dad doesn’t care about this show he didn’t need to hear all about the demo songs and the show’s weird lyrics and all you desire and word of your body reprise and all that stuff I worked myself up about again but he let me babble on anyway
I really respect that the president of the concert series I go to has a theme song to mark his entrance every night when he does his announcements
I’m looking through mentions of Spring Awakening in my diaryish document and I love my review of the community theater production that got me into it:
“holy fucking shit
So it was really good! But we were so unprepared like it was super explicit and I didn’t know the plot at all and there was abuse and sex and suicide and expulsion and abortion and death by abortion and like we saw a butt and it was A Lot
…
I feel like I came out of Spring Awakening a different person”
There is literally no reason for me to always mix up Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. None. I know it’s because they were in two movies together. But that is not enough of a reason. They do not look alike. Their names are not similar. And yet.
how does sean grandillo holding a bottle of milk upside down fit into hanschen’s milkaphors
I asked Kate whether I was crazy to go to a concert forty minutes away alone on a Sunday night and she said yes and I ignored her and bought a ticket anyway and she said “Dig your own grave then I won’t wait up for you”
things I think about a lot: despite all the adults talking about Moritz going to hell, Hanschen seems to think he’s going to heaven
Look, I’ve never felt any pressure from you that I co-parent. But your idea that I take no responsibility for raising your child…it’s naive. It’s not that I think you’re not capable of raising a child on your own – of course you are – but short of us dissolving our partnership, I’m not capable of not being involved. N-Not as the child’s father, but as it’s…mother’s friend.
I’ve decided I want an adaptation of the Spring Awakening play by Trans Siberian Orchestra. I’m not entirely sure who would write it since I know their creator died last year and I don’t know how much of the writing he did, and I don’t know if they would be interested in something that doesn’t involve fire and lasers, and I think I’m the only person who would care about this, but listen.
-their whole thing is blending classical and modern. transporting a story from 1891 to a modern audience (one of the things I think Sater was right is important) is right up their alley
-they’ve never done a real fully staged musical, but they’re good at storytelling through music
-my favorite of their singers has been on Broadway and I’m betting some of the other vocalists have too which proves that they could pull it off
-look up the lyrics to their song The Moment. tell me that’s not the vineyard scene from the play. if they can write a song about Hanschen and Ernst without knowing who they are, imagine what they could do intentionally.
-they have songs with Beethoven talking to the literal devil they would not be afraid of incorporating the Masked Man
-they love weird shit and Drama
-I’m actually… not sure how they would handle the female characters. but frankly it can’t be worse
- jean valjean walked up to a group of people and started lecturing them on the virtue of the nettle plant
- jean valjean goes to every funeral in town
- jean valjean makes corn dolls for babies
- jean valjean breaks into peoples houses to give them money
- these are a few things that this guy has done in the past two pages
- jean valjean lifted a whole cart off a dude and then PAID THAT DUDE $1000 FOR BEING RESCUED BY HIM
(in tears) they’re not just corn dolls they’re straw and coconut dolls which is a skill he learned as a convict because convicts use those to make tools to sell later and get some extra money. jean valjean uses a convict skill to make kiddos happy
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