Sing Street Original Broadway Cast Member Max Bartos (Darren) is currently playing Moritz in Breaking Borders: International Performing Artists Inc. production of Spring Awakening in NYC!! Perfect casting! 🎤🥀
Sing Street Original Broadway Cast members Brenock O’Connor (Conor) and Zara Devlin (Raphina) visiting some Sing Street film locations in Dublin before Sing Street’s Off-Broadway World Premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in 2019. 🥹
I’m not a big artist but I was listening to Brown Shoes and the lyric “your up will be down, just hanging around in gravity boots” is always so funny to me and I always visualize it very literally so I decided to draw it. Thought it would be cute to have Brother Baxter angrily floating above the boys while they point and laugh and stare with awe. I was gonna make it a comic but again, I’m not really an artist. But I’ll add some dialogue or anyone else can if they think of something!
So far all I have is this:
Conor: “Look at that, boys, in gravity boots just like we wrote!”
Also another inspiration for drawing this is from Gary’s little moment before the song that lives in my head rent free. It’s the turning point for his character after being the cautious, good student the whole play. Just before Brown Shoes, he stand up on a chair, dedicates the song, and drops the mic, yelling:
“To every Christian Brother who’s been over us, and to anyone who ever tries to stop a kid from living!”
Another reason I made this is because there’s a sad lack of Sing Street musical/movie fan art. I’ve done my duty now. It’s just a sketch and it’s not great, but nevertheless, enjoy!
(The characters I drew are from the NYTW version, so the face claims in order from left to right are Brendan C. Callahan, Brenock O’Connor, Max Bartos, Sam Poon, and Jakeim Hart, and of course, Martin Moran as Brother Baxter)
Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! In honor of the holiday, I have a ton of Sing Street (NYTW/Broadway) memes! I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Man do I miss this show. Here’s part 1!
It's the last week of the local Spring Awakening production I am obsessed with 😔 (This is Otto backstage with Thea, Melchior, Wendla, and Voice of Wendla.)
Ok #the girls were fighting (irl) so I am not doing what I planned to do tonight but instead listening to sing street to compose myself.
And I’m thinking TOO MUCH about these songs and the movie that the musical is based on. Specificslly Go Now and how that’s Brendan’s only song.
Drive it Like You Stole it *could* be considered his song. But Conor is the one who sings it. And I’m thinking like. He gave him that song and in Go Now he hid the sorrow and only showed the joy in getting his brother out of there.
Conor never hears go now.
Something something the moon will sing a song for you but ten times worse to me because. He has so much joy that his brother is free despite him still being trapped. He doesn’t sit in hurt, he celebrates being left for something more.
And also Go Now is only in the musical but you still get that joy at Connor escaping in the movie. But it’s so different in the musical because of how it’s shaped. It’s not Brendan giving Conor all his cash and driving him and Raphina out to their grandads boat in silence and then a wild joyful yell as they escape, disappearing to find their dreams. It’s his thoughts.
So here you are
You've got another chance for life
It's what you want
I can see it in your eyes
You see so clear
It's coming into light
Go on, be wrong
'Cause tomorrow you'll be right
Just, the certainty in that. You will be right. Your risks are beautiful. Now go, before mom and dad notice.
Don't sit around and talk it over
You're running out of time
Just face ahead, no going back now
It’s not just the quiet of the car. It’s all of his well wishes that he doesn’t let out and the thoughts that played out in that quiet drive to the port.
Then the joy that builds because Conor chased his dreams instead of drowning in their impossibility like Brendan did. That joy-
You’re never gonna go if you don’t go now
You’re never gonna know if you don’t find out
You’re never turning back, never turning around
How that last line is a thing that Brendan needs to be true, because Conor’s dream can’t crash. He can’t come home because his dream fell apart. It’s too damn bright.
Go on, be wrong. Cause tomorrow, you’ll be right.
I’ve just gotta say. I’m Very Normal about how the musical emphasizes points of the movie that hit me like a thousand bricks in this song.