Spring Awakenings

[+ Lucky]

Among the highlights of New York theater right now, this off-Broadway musical at the Atlantic Theater Company fetures a youthful cast learning about the complications of sexual awakening and the challenges of adolescence. The show is based upon a play from 1891 by Frank Wedekind. Hooville theater fans will enjoy the performance of the very cute Jonathan Groff, who plays the lead, Melchior. Groff sings like an angel and looks doubly delicious. Another scene of masturbation is playfully carried out onstage by yet another cute cast member.

http://www.broadway.com/site_images/532806.jpg

 

And, if you like that, here is a profile of Groff:

http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=532794

[+ Charlie]

The original play by Wedekind ("Fruehlings Erwachen") created an enormous sensation in late-19th century Vienna, for its frank treatment of sex, especially masturbation, which had never been mentioned on stage before then.

[+ Lucky]

RE: Harry Potter Naked!

 

The show Spring Awakening closes next week so if you haven't seen it, now's the time.

 

Meanwhile, the Harry Potter kid will be getting naked next year on a London stage with famed History Boys groper Richard Griffiths:

 

Harry Potter actor to star in "Equus" on London stage

Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:58 AM BST

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will strip off for his London stage debut as a psychologically disturbed stable boy in "Equus".

 

The 17-year-old, currently making the fifth Harry Potter film, will star alongside Richard Griffiths, who plays his grumpy uncle in the wizard sagas.

 

Radcliffe will play Alan Strang, a stable boy who is interviewed by a psychiatrist after he blinds six horses with a metal spike. In Peter Shaffer's controversial play, the role requires the actor to ride naked on his horse.

 

"This is an extraordinary play and, yes, there is a scene of nudity in it, but that's not what the play is about," said Radcliffe's publicist Vanessa Davies.

 

 

 

"He finishes shooting 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' in October or November and rehearsals are starting in January," she added. The play is expected to open in March.

 

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth J.K. Rowling book to be turned into a film. There are doubts about whether Radcliffe can continue to play the boy wizard until the end of the series.

 

Rowling is now writing the seventh and final book of the hugely successful series.

 

The first four Harry Potter films have amassed around 1.8 billion pounds worldwide at the box office.

[+ Lucky]

RE: Harry Potter Naked!

 

Not so hairy Harry:

http://www.defamer.com/assets/resources/2006/07/potter-naked.jpg

[Guest alanm]

RE: Harry Potter Naked!

 

"Spring Awakening" is the toughest show to get tickets to in NY.

 

Luckily, it will relocate to Broadway, probably in the fall.

 

 

Peter Firth was sensation as the boy in the original "Equis" in London and Broadway, both for his looks and acting. Good luck, Harry Potter.

[+ Cash4Trash]

RE: Harry Potter Naked!

 

Another show well worth seeing is "(title of show)"

It's currently running for 6 weeks at The Vineyard on East 15th Street.

 

A very funny musical about the writing of a musical. One of the best

things I've seen this year. I'm on my way back for a second

viewing.

 

And, yes..."(title of show)" is the name of the show.

[+ deej]

RE: Harry Potter Naked!

 

"(title of show)" sounds like the kind of thing I'd see just because of the title of the show. ;-)

 

Anyone seen the new Kander & Ebb musical "Curtains", now running in LA?

[+ Lucky]

RE: Harry Potter Naked!

 

Ticketmaster shows availability tomorrow night. Smart theater people got tickets three weeks ago when I first posted this!!!

[Guest alanm]

RE: Harry Potter Naked!

 

Update of "Spring Awakening" tickets:

 

I was able to get tickets for the front row center on Saturday, August 5 at 2PM, but all other tickets are sold out for that matinee (which is the next to last performance).

 

I suggest that anyone who has a specific date in mind check this weekend before all the tickets are gone. Oh yeah, it's telecharge - off Broadway.

[+ Lucky]

Well, the stampede is on. I have received over 100,000 emails thanking me for calling attention to Spring Awakening's closing. Or else they were about how to get tickets to Hairless Harry's horse ride. Maybe they were just hate mail. But I am sure it was 100,000!!!

[Guest alanm]

RE: Spring Awakening

 

"Spring Awakening" closed yesterday at the super small Atlantic Theater at 20th Street and Ninth Avenue & will reopen at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Broadway in December. New Yorkers and Christmas tourists take note.

 

The story is unusally strong for a musical, but then it's author, Frank Wedekind, wrote the plays on which the opera "Lulu" is based. I didn't get all the lyrics by Steven Slater on first hearing, but the rock music by Duncan Sheik is amazing (and surprisingly appropriate for a story that takes place in 19th century Germany).

 

The main reason to see "Spring Awakening" is the cast, especially Jonathan Groff who discovers sex (with Lea Michele) before our eyes -- more on that in a minute. Groff is a wonderful singer and pretty good actor. It also helps that he's a lot better looking than his pictures.

 

I saw the matinee and the cast stayed outside the theatre for a long time to talk to the audience -- a great reason to see an off-Broadway show on one of the most beautiful days of the summer. Jonathan Groff was talking to his cousin about his brief nude scene when I walked up to him. Once he dropped his pants the first time in front of an audience, Jonathan was hooked. He's all for going further on Broadway, Groff told me (long sweet smile from me).

 

It did seem like there were about 1,000 people outside, but I doubt many read escort blogs.

[+ Cash4Trash]

RE: Spring Awakening

 

Spring Awakening is transferring to Broadway. It will probably

go into the O'Neill after Sweeney Todd closes.

[+ Lucky]

Spring Awakening opens previews at the Eugene O'Beill theater on Friday, November 17th.

There are those who wonder how the show will translate in a larger theater, but I think the O'Neill is a good choice. After all, I didn't have any troube seeing BD Wong's butt in M Butterfly...

[+ Lucky]

RE: [title of show]

 

[title of show] has been extended through October 1st.

[Guest alanm]

RE: Spring Awakening

 

Thanks to Lucky for first telling us about Off-Broadway's "Spring

Awakening" during the Summer. "Spring Awakening" opened on Broadway last night (December 10) with its hot young star, Jonathan Groff. The following is the beginning of Charles Isherwood's rave review in Monday's New York Times.

 

 

THEATER REVIEW | 'SPRING AWAKENING'

 

Sex and Rock? What Would the Kaiser Think?

 

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Published: December 11, 2006

 

Think of the Broadway musical, its past, present or future, and any number of phrases may spring to mind, depending on your affection for this embattled but persistent form of popular entertainment.

 

The great American art form. Karaoke nightmare. Bring the kids, leave the I.Q. at home. Another op’nin, another revival.

 

Probably nobody thinks: pure sex.

 

That might just change. A straight shot of eroticism steamed open last night at the Eugene O’Neill Theater under the innocuous name of “Spring Awakening,” and Broadway, with its often puerile sophistication and its sterile romanticism, may never be the same.

 

In “Spring Awakening,” with a ravishing rock score by the playwright Steven Sater and the singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik, flesh makes only a single, charged appearance [Jonathan Groff]. And for all its frankness about the quest for carnal knowledge, it is blessedly free of the sniggering vulgarity that infects too many depictions of sexuality onstage and on screen.

 

But in exploring the tortured inner lives of a handful of adolescents in 19th-century Germany, this brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill and quite a bit of the terror to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls sometime around the age of 13, well before most of us have the intellectual apparatus in place to analyze its impact. “Spring Awakening” makes sex strange again, no mean feat in our mechanically prurient age, in which celebrity sex videos are traded on the Internet

[+ Lucky]

For mysterious reasons I cannot see alanm's latest post, but I am told he cites the great reviews for the show in the NYTimes. I was hoping it would do well in the bigger theater but I would still want to sit up close!

[Guest DickHo]

I just saw the Broadway version. In my opinion this is the best show on Broadway right now and it's the best musical since Spamalot.

 

Run to see it. And it's good not because of the cute boys. The whole thing is great: music, lyrics, performances and staging.

 

Dick

[Guest alanm]

>Run to see it. And it's good not because of the cute boys. The

>whole thing is great: music, lyrics, performances and

>staging.

>

>Dick

 

But, the cute boys, especially Jon Groff, are certainly not a minus.

Apparently, the best view of Groff's brief nude scene at the end of Act One is from the on-stage seats on the left side. Those seats cost only $35 and might not be available much longer given the demand from the across the board rave reviews for "Spring Awakening."

 

Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele may not have the star power of Broadway musical legends like Ethel Merman, Yul Brynner, Mary Martin and Julie Andrews, but Groff and Michele are very talented and charismatic.

[edjames]

Spring Awakenings was the darling of the critics when it opened last week. It did exceptionally well and it looks like it is settling in to be the next "Rent" on Broadway.

Unfortunately, "High Fidelity" did not fair as well and will close this Sunday night after only a few performances. It never generated the box office business and the bad reviews did not help.

Martin Short has announced his Broadway show will close in early January.

Kristin Chenoweth opened last night in the Roundabout's production of "The Apple Tree." She received glowing reviews for her performance but all her talent can't save this show. It's not a great show to begin with and the music is mediocre at best, however, if you a Kristin fan, you'll want to see her in this. She is wonderful. She's also doing a one night concert at the Met in January.

Hunky Argentinian flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortes canceled his limited engagement at the Palace theater due to family illness. The two week run was sold out!

 

Just announced for a fast track to Broadway is the Broadway version of "Xanadu" (you remember, the very forgetable Olivia Newton John movie musical with music by Burt Bacharach). This version is being written by "The Littel Dog Laughed" playwright, Douglas Carter Beane!

 

 

Ed

[+ glutes]

London Awakenings - Equus!!

 

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23383624-details/What+will+Hermione+say%2C+Harry/article.do

[+ Lucky]

RE: Harry Potter Naked!

 

Andy Towle at towleroad.typepad.com has the Harry Potter skin shots:

 

http://towleroad.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/equus5.jpg

[+ glutes]

RE: Harry Potter Naked!

 

Or:

 

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/01_wk4/2RadcliffeEquus_468x651.jpg