All shall know the wonder.
I can't believe it's today. So many Broadway shows are closing this month (I think the count is 16, but don't quote me on that), but this is the one that completely snuck up on me. In a couple of hours, the very last matinee of Spring Awakening at the Eugene O'Neill will begin. When I get to school tomorrow morning (at 8AM for Hexameet), the final Broadway performance would have already begun.
I can't even begin to articulate how I feel - I'm sure it's nowhere near the devastation of the ones that will be at the final show, and it's not the regular amount of sadness or frustration at being half a world away from yet another show I will never be able to see live on Broadway. But it's not with complete aloofness either. I'm sad, I know I'll cry when I read show reviews and watch curtain call videos, but I'm also freakishly fine with all of it. It has a lot to do with the fact that I'll be able to see this in September - staged live in my very own country, by a production company that I trust with my entire being. I'm going to get to experience this show at center orchestra, with my "own" local cast, in a city that I love. (Not to mention the tiny possibility that if the National Tour runs through 2010 I'd be able to see it because my family will be in the States that summer.) So... yeah, that kind of dampers the depression a little lot.
And also, I think I'm not 10,000,000% devastated because my love for Spring Awakening stems so much more from my love for the cast than the show itself. I am in love with the music, with what I've "seen" of the staging/lighting, with the impact it's had on so many people... but I've never been able to completely connect with the story. It's tragic and touching, and it bodes terribly for the course that our society is taking - but I have never been completely floored by it. Not the way that RENT or In the Heights or bare did the first time I ever "saw" them.
But despite all that, I still woke up this morning with my stomach in knots. I can't believe that it's the 18th. We've all known about it for months, but it just crept up. I hate that this incredible show is closing. I'm so sad because in all likelihood I will never hear about many of the cast members ever again. Most of them don't have anything lined up for the near future, and it breaks my heart that kids with talent like theirs are left floundering. I hate that they're all losing the jobs that they love so much. I hate that they won't be able to see each other every day, that we will hear cute stories about them less and less until one day those too will just stop. I love them, and because of them I follow the show. Because of them, I mourn this day. Because of them, I am writing this small tribute.
I'm sharing this video because this is how I will always remember Spring Awakening on Broadway: a group of amazingly talented kids that have formed lasting relationships (and gave us many cute stories to smile/giggle/"AW!" over) while performing in a beautiful show. I have to look away at the outpouring of complete love from all of them while singing this song - it's so poignant and real, and in many ways also very private. And I'm sure that this has been happening at the end of every show in the past month at the Eugene O'Neill. Just... so much love. ♥
I won't let them stray from my heart.
I can't even begin to articulate how I feel - I'm sure it's nowhere near the devastation of the ones that will be at the final show, and it's not the regular amount of sadness or frustration at being half a world away from yet another show I will never be able to see live on Broadway. But it's not with complete aloofness either. I'm sad, I know I'll cry when I read show reviews and watch curtain call videos, but I'm also freakishly fine with all of it. It has a lot to do with the fact that I'll be able to see this in September - staged live in my very own country, by a production company that I trust with my entire being. I'm going to get to experience this show at center orchestra, with my "own" local cast, in a city that I love. (Not to mention the tiny possibility that if the National Tour runs through 2010 I'd be able to see it because my family will be in the States that summer.) So... yeah, that kind of dampers the depression a little lot.
And also, I think I'm not 10,000,000% devastated because my love for Spring Awakening stems so much more from my love for the cast than the show itself. I am in love with the music, with what I've "seen" of the staging/lighting, with the impact it's had on so many people... but I've never been able to completely connect with the story. It's tragic and touching, and it bodes terribly for the course that our society is taking - but I have never been completely floored by it. Not the way that RENT or In the Heights or bare did the first time I ever "saw" them.
But despite all that, I still woke up this morning with my stomach in knots. I can't believe that it's the 18th. We've all known about it for months, but it just crept up. I hate that this incredible show is closing. I'm so sad because in all likelihood I will never hear about many of the cast members ever again. Most of them don't have anything lined up for the near future, and it breaks my heart that kids with talent like theirs are left floundering. I hate that they're all losing the jobs that they love so much. I hate that they won't be able to see each other every day, that we will hear cute stories about them less and less until one day those too will just stop. I love them, and because of them I follow the show. Because of them, I mourn this day. Because of them, I am writing this small tribute.
I'm sharing this video because this is how I will always remember Spring Awakening on Broadway: a group of amazingly talented kids that have formed lasting relationships (and gave us many cute stories to smile/giggle/"AW!" over) while performing in a beautiful show. I have to look away at the outpouring of complete love from all of them while singing this song - it's so poignant and real, and in many ways also very private. And I'm sure that this has been happening at the end of every show in the past month at the Eugene O'Neill. Just... so much love. ♥
I won't let them stray from my heart.
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