they are all so comforting to draw

spring awakeners but they got modern au'd

Everyone’s like “Hanschen would be a stoner!!!” And “Melchior would be a stoner!!” No, it’s Otto and Thea. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

is there an active spring awakening discord??? If not can one start??? I need to talk to people about it 😭

Spring Awakening

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Jesse St. James as Melchior Gabor

Rachel Berry as Wendla Bergmann

Mike Chang as Moritz Stiefel

Tina Cohen-Chang as Ilse Neumann

Kurt Hummel as Hänschen Rilow

Santana Lopez as Martha Bessell

Blaine Anderson as Ernst Robel

Roderick Meeks as Georg Zirschnitz

Artie Abrams as Otto Lammermeier

Quinn Fabray as Anna Wheelan

Marley Rose as Thea Rilow

Sam Evans as Adult men

Jane Hayward as Adult women

ranking sa kids on how well i could take them in a fight

disclaimer that this isnt some kind of older person beating up kids thing, i'm their age, 5'3", and not very athletic aside from running occasionally so judge me by those standards

also im comedically aggressive/(not graphically) violent with how much i'm punting some of them so cw for that

12. bobby maler - 0/10 too powerful

11. ernst - 1/10 even though he is very soft and easily defeatable i think if i harmed him even a bit i'd start crying

10. ilse - 2/10 she would almost definitely win

9. anna - 3/10 would run over me with her wheelchair i don't appreciate that

8. otto - 4/10 an idiot but i imagine him bigger than me and i don't like those chances

7. moritz - 5/10 i frankly do not know. on one hand he's too sad and too horny, but on the other hand he has the power of god and gerard way on his side also he's fuelled by his touch starvation

6. wendla - 5/10 like ernst she's very soft so i might be able to defeat her however there is some wild magical energy surrounding her so who knows

5. martha - 6/10 she'd be very resilient and i think she'd put up a good fight but at the end of the day i'll get the upper hand

4. thea - 7/10 feral energy but she's so into melchior and i despise that so to the moon she goes

3. hanschen - 8/10 he might get a few punches in but at the end of the day he's too small and stupid and he's getting punted. little hans rilow. dumbass.

2. melchior - 10/10 i would leave. best way to deal with melchior is to ignore him. bitch probably can't even throw a good punch, i'd hardly feel a thing. if he follows me he's getting punted to the moon

1. georg - 15/10 i'd start making fun of him and he'd be so distressed he'd curl up into a ball and start crying. then i'd kick him for good measure. baby.

I first encountered Wedekind’s play when I was in my first year of postgraduate studies (a.k.a. grad school); I read the Edward Bond translation on the site Drama Online, and fell madly in love. The poetic tone of the text entranced me; the characters were no less vivid. Shakespeare may have basically planted the teen angst genre with Romeo and Juliet, but Wedekind took it to a next-level realm of gritty reality, without resorting to extreme explicitness — even in the play’s harshest moments, the poetry remains. 

I want to highlight a few particular things that I especially love about the play, in no particular order (by the way, all excerpts are from the 2007 Jonathan Franzen translation, which in my opinion is THE BEST!!!):

The brilliant characterization, especially in this scene when the girls are talking about having kids when they're married (they all want boys), Wendla mentions how happy she is to be a girl, and that topic merges into a discussion of cute guys:

Hansy Rilow is a precious cinnamon roll and must be protected from the haters at all costs (this is besides the fact that he’s one of my fictional crushes). 

He genuinely congratulates Moritz in the scene where he finds out he’s passed his exams: 

HANSY RILOW: Congratulations, Moritz. - Just be glad you got away with it.

He doesn’t join in when the other boys make fun of him.

Later, he grieves at Moritz's funeral ("Rest in peace, old sport!"), and gives Otto a stinging retort when he makes a callous comment about the deceased:

OTTO: The thing is, he still owes me five marks. We had a bet. He swore he wouldn't flunk.

HANSY RILOW: It's your fault he's lying there. You called him a show-off.

Since Robert was the one to call him a show-off, Hansy’s response to Otto seems aimed at all the others who mocked Moritz — it’s meant as a collective condemnation.

He reminds me very much of another of my fictional crushes, Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (a must-read book if you’re into any of the academia aesthetics — it’s where all that started). The vineyard scene especially gives me major Brideshead vibes, especially the scene where Sebastian and Charles go on an afternoon drive.

Here’s a snippet of the vineyard scene (Act 3, Scene 6):

Wedekind and Waugh’s marvelous use of lush imagery to convey their respective characters’ inner lives is especially evident in these moments, and I LOVE it.

(Side-note: I enjoy imagining what the children will be like as adults; I speculate that Hansy will end up marrying Ilse (she’s a beautiful art model, he has an appreciation for all things aesthetically-pleasing and luxurious), and they’ll be the rich, glamorous couple who live in the only mansion in town, where they host fabulous parties. Meanwhile, Melchior (married to sweet, supportive Martha) will run the local newspaper, full of erudite commentary on current events, and Ernst will be the kind-hearted, beloved-by-all local preacher, with his “affectionate little housewife” Thea.)

And finally, the last exchange between Melchior and Moritz in the graveyard: 

*Blinks back tears* Whew. That packs an emotional gut-punch. 

I’ll conclude on a lighter note, with Hansy’s wonderful line in the vineyard scene.

HANSY RILOW: Let's not be sad! - Life's too short.

 So true. 

Spring Awakening - Asakusa Kyugeki (Japan)

12 July 2022 | whereigowhenigothere’s master Format: mp3, tracked

Cast: Arata Ishikawa [Melchior Gabor], Sayaka Kurihara [Wendla Bergmann], Tsubasa Takizawa [Moritz Stiefel], Mebae Ninomiya [Ilse Neumann], Hiromi Narita [Hanschen Rilow], Mika Matoba [Martha Bessell], Yoshitaka Kumano [Ernst Robel], Sakurako Koda [Anna], Shinichiro Kogure [Georg Zirschnitz], Sakurano Nakahara [Thea Rilow], Shiro Sei [Otto Lammermeier], Kouhei Morita [Adult Men], Fisuk Yun [Adult Women] Notes: First preview of the West cast! Includes speech by Arata Ishikawa. I simply must mention the fact that the people ship from DWSA was included in this production.

Shot4Shot presents Spring Awakening SATURDAY MAY 7, 2022, AT 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Young Ethels 506 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11215 "We're totally f***ed!" Shot4Shot is a drinking game with a pop culture problem. Part scripted, part improvised = all fun and heart! Improvisers are given a script and drinking rules then they're off. What happens when some folks who are dedicated fans of the source material are mixed in with folks who have never seen it? Throw in some shots, a singalong, and a mixed drink... That's how you get Shot4Shot! CAST Melchoir/Boys... Lauren Kneteman Wendla/Girls... William Pope Moritz/Boys... Leah Evans Isle/Girls... Willem Brian Smith Martha/Girls... Nick Carrillo Hanschen/Boys... Kathryn Fabbroni Ernst/Boys... Audrey Marie Sprouse Georg/Boys... Megan Sugrue Otto/Boys... Janice McIntyre Anna/Girls... Marcus Haugen Thea/Girls... Pedro Lee Frau Bergman/Dieter... Ro Rovito Frau Gabor/Father Kaulbach/Schmidt/Boys... Heather Jewels Booth Herr Sonnenstich/Doctor von Brausepulver/Drink Ref... Jess Klafter Herr Gabor/Father Kaulbach... Kristin ElliottFräulein Großebüstenhalter/Reinhold... Kate Martino Rupert/Boys...Marybess Pritchett Herr Knochenbruch/Herr Rilow/Girls...Jason Hewett Fräulein Knuppeldick/Girls...Donovan Santiago Ulbrecht/Boys... Emily Claypoole Herr Stiefel/Stage Directions/Boys... Klara Gribetz Free to enter. Cheap drinks all night! “We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CdRb6qsp6Ho/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

My Junk is thea and hanschen’s song it belongs to them exclusively

Pictures from Ren’s Broadway debut because why not

lgbt flag but it’s colour picked from the sa girls!!

LOOK AT HOW COOL OUR POSTER IS?!?!??? IM SO EXCITED

Moritz: Nothing in life is free.

Ernst: Love is free!

Thea: Adventure is free.

Melchior: Knowledge is free.

Hanschen: Everything is free if you take it without paying.

SA Girls- Dip Pose Redraw #1

Is this Wendilse? To me it is

[ID: A square paper drawing of the Spring Awakening girls. Wendla, in her blue dress, is dipping Ilse in her green dress. Ilse is looking up at her with a mildly concerned expression, and Wendla looks down intently. In the background in front of a red curtain are the other three girls, forming a heart shape with their arms. Anna is on the left, holding onto Ilse’s hand with her other arm in the air. Martha is in the center, and Thea is on the right. All three are looking blankly at Wendla and Ilse. In the bottom is the artist’s signature. 

Second ID: A still from the movie White Christmas. Where Wendla was is Betty Haynes, a blond woman in a black dress and white gloves. She is holding one of four men dressed in black against a red curtain background. End ID.]

good morning to pretentious know-it-alls, teenage girls who trust too easily, nervous wrecks with undiagnosed learning disorders, kids who ran away from home, little blond bitches, people who want to become pastors, abuse survivors, gullible children, piano players, and last but not least, piano teachers with some huge fucking badonkadonks