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All I know in the play there is a Masked Man in the graveyard scene at the end. I know Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source, but here is what I found: "In the play, the ghost of Moritz tries to convince Melchior to kill himself, but is stopped by the Masked Man. In the musical, Melchior decides to kill himself when he sees the newly-erected grave of Wendla, but then the ghosts of Moritz and Wendla convince him not to."
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Obviously the character of the Masked Man was written out of the current musical, and they reworked the ending.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
The masked man did what millie said. They decided to take him out of the musical because they wanted the teenagers to be making these decisions without the prescence of any adults.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.
just to clear things up, the Masked Man appears in the original play, rather randomly (ie: he's not in any scene until the very last and even then, he just appears with no explanation whatsoever)
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Caroline, I was in a possibly illegal version of the play, and we had the Masked Man sitting on the stage, watching us for the whole play, finally speaking in the last scene. I don't know if that was common
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.
I'm not sure how it's usually staged (the one production I've seen of it was an unimaginative awful local production), I was just talking about how its written (or translated) at least.
That sounds like a pretty good staging idea, however.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Thea sang "The Dark I Know Well"? I wonder how that worked.
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I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not...
"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
I believe Martha told people she was beaten, and then Thea sang this to show that she was beaten too, although no one knew. Now, Martha sings it and the "part she can't tell" is sexual abuse.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
the moral of this story is that the American Songbook series is alot cooler than anyone thought.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
bump I just got my hands on a copy of the recording from the workshop at roundabout and alot of the cut songs are pretty cool. Its kinda weird to listen to I Believe though because Lea is so young in compairson to now when she actually did the show and because I remember my experiance with the show so well its just weird to picture the staging now witha younger lea and gavin creel. Anyone else have thoughts on the recording?
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"Caroline, I was in a possibly illegal version of the play, and we had the Masked Man sitting on the stage, watching us for the whole play, finally speaking in the last scene. I don't know if that was common"
At the 2001 workshop the Masked Man was the narrator. So he was there the whole time. I thought the recording was awful. The songs that Lea sings are cute because you can compare. But Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind is actually PAINFUL to listen to.
But there are a few scene/songs that are pretty cool. I like Moritz's funeral and the reprise of There Once Was a Pirate.
That's probably going to get this thread deleted but thanks for sharing it anyway.
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I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not...
"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
"Where is Dark I Know well & "All thats known" Where they not added till Bway?"
They were added in later workshops. Spring Awakening did a bunch of workshops from 1999 until their off-Broadway run in 2006. The show changed a lot from the beginning (2001 was one of the first workshops) moving further and further away from the original story. There were a few changes from off-Broadway to Broadway, but not many.