SPRING AWAKENING Needs a "Video Cast Recording"
SPRING AWAKENING Needs a "Video Cast Recording"
#1SPRING AWAKENING Needs a "Video Cast Recording"
Posted: 9/15/15 at 9:40pm
The other thread got me thinking and I wanted to start a new thread on this so hopefully someone involved with the show might see it.
Im sure that a revival cast recording will happen but to fully meet their mission of involving the deaf community, they should also release a video cast recording, even if it's only the actors signing (which I'd personally love).
#2SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/15/15 at 9:53pm
Very true a Cast Album wouldn't really capture the production truly.
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#3SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/15/15 at 10:22pm
I agree. A full fledged filming would be ideal, of course, but I would be happy with anything that includes everyone.
#4SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/15/15 at 10:28pm
I would love it to be filmed but as I mentioned in the other thread I don't understand how they would go about editing the footage together without cutting away and interrupting the signing that deaf audiences are reading at home.
#5SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/15/15 at 10:30pm
^^ if that encourages editors to just let takes last unedited for longer and longer I wouldn't mind. Even if that requires extensive shooting without an audience, for posterity's sake. But costs get prohibitive at a certain point.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
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#6SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/15/15 at 10:34pm
Let's crowd fund this thing. There's clearly interest. Hopefully some higher power up there is reading this!
#7SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/15/15 at 10:37pm
I'm just thinking of how great something like this would be for deaf kids/teenagers. It could be their introduction to the theater the same way INTO THE WOODS was for me and so many others.
#8SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/15/15 at 10:42pm
It would also be a terrific calling card for Deaf West in general and allow a wider audience to experience what they do and hopefully make it a point to see their future productions in LA.
#9SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/15/15 at 10:43pm
"Im sure that a revival cast recording will happen"
I wouldn't be so sure. As others have pointed out, there wasn't one for Big River. And as I said in the other thread, I heard a cast member at the stage-door saying he didn't think there would be one, exactly for the same reasons of exclusions that have been discussed on the board.
#10SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 4:53am
How can we make this happen? I think a studio recording/full video (or even just a deaf-friendly music video for each song) two disc set would be incredible.
They/them.
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#11SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 8:19am
How can we make this happen?
Easy! Give Ken Davenport money. At least $500k to start. And then go from there! Good luck.
GilmoreGirlO2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/05
#12SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 9:25am
I whole-heartedly agree with this suggestion and hope it comes to fruition. It’s an amazing production and the possibilities of how it could introduce theatre to many young people who are deaf is an opportunity I hope they don’t pass up. I also think it’s a great eye-opener to everyone (deaf or hearing) of the possibilities of what you can do on stage and how a piece can be interpreted (not just limited to including ASL, but with many of the other stylistic directing and movement choices).
#13SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 3:53pm
Maybe this is the kind of thing that would need to be crowd funded...
#14SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 4:09pm
^Like button!
Now that Facebook is getting a dislike, can we have at least a like?
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#15SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 6:12pm
I'm not one to push for a video recording of every show, but, in this case, if any kind of preservation was going to be made for the public I do agree that a traditional cast recording would be a disservice to the entire reason that this was produced and a filming would be the way to go about it.
#16SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 6:20pm
Off Topic - I spoke to Lin Manuel the other day and he told me wants to film and release this Broadway production of HAMILTON at some point. That's pretty exciting.
#17SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 9:22pm
Jordan Catalano said: "Off Topic - I spoke to Lin Manuel the other day and he told me wants to film and release this Broadway production of HAMILTON at some point. That's pretty exciting. "
"At some point" like how the movie version of Wicked will be made "at some point."
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#18SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 9:35pm
Well since he said he wanted it to be the OBC, I'm guessing it'll be before they leave.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#19SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 11:15pm
The Wicked movie WILL BE made at "some point," though - you can bet your bottom on that. There is just no need for it RIGHT NOW. But it'll happen. In the case of Hamilton, though, sooner seems to be likely rather than later.
Crowd funding is the way to go for something like this if they really need it. Scrap the movie adaptation of this that was announced shortly after the original closed and just release this thing in its place. This kind of work deserves to be preserved.
Pill still take a movie adaptation of the original source material, though...
#20SPRING AWAKENING Needs a
Posted: 9/16/15 at 11:18pm
gypsy101 said: ""At some point" like how the movie version of Wicked will be made "at some point.""
Since it sounds like he wants to record the live version, there is less reason to be skeptical. "At some point" would just mean, they will record it with this cast, and release it when it would not cannibalize their ticket sales. Just like stand-up comics typically record their specials, and then release them 6-12 months later, so that when people come to see them after their special is released, they are performing new material at that point.
