Spring Awakening on the new 90210

[winter_sky]

Posted: 9/2/08 at 8:41pm

On the "new" version of 90210, the girls are singing "Mama Who Bore Me (reprise)" from Spring Awakening.

Posted: 9/2/08 at 8:42pm

I saw it...

This show is AWFUL.

[winter_sky]

Posted: 9/2/08 at 9:08pm

Another boy was just singing "Touch Me".
Updated On: 9/2/08 at 09:08 PM

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 9/2/08 at 9:37pm

That show is ridiculously bad. And I have a high tolerance.

[HollyDiver]

Posted: 9/2/08 at 10:20pm

Haha! I havent seen the show, but the audience is actually a pretty good target for getting to see Spring Awakening. I'm all for it if it helps boost sales!

[george95]

Posted: 9/2/08 at 10:46pm

Yeah the singers for "Momma who Bore me" were pretty awful. I thought the blocking was pretty interesting--I kept picturing the director going "ok as you sing, sort of throw your hands up and kinda bend down with your knees, and shake your hair.....yeah thats it"

[toanythingtaboo 2]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 8:04am

It's amusing that they managed to squeeze in mentions of Rent, performances of G+S and Spring Awakening.

Quite the achievement for a show based on rich bitch tweens in Beverly Hills haha.

How long before Wicked is mentioned? Brothers & Sisters is OBSESSED with mentioning it. It's kind of nice though.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 9:04am

LMAO The singers were fine, what are you talking about?

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 9:40am

Shush, songanddanceman. They SUCKED and this show was terrible.

Did there really have to be like 4 seperate threads about a Spring Awakening reference?

Ethel Merman needs to rise up and teach all of these kids a lesson.

[actorgaedu]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 9:50am

I guess we have officially met the generation who knows nothing about fun TV. Why does everything have to be a trashy reality competition to be good TV? I thought the new 90210 was fun and interesting in the way they encompassed the characters from the original series. I guess the original 90210 generation is not the target, but it was nice to see them incorporate a continuation of the original to introduce the new. I'll continue watching. The girls sounded great in their singing! In my opinion, they were better than the original Broadway company girls on the reprise!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 9:51am

Well i must have heard something different then, i thought they sounded pretty damn good for non Broadway singers

I do agree that 90210 is lacking all the energy and the charisma of the original

[winston89]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 10:22am

Once again TDH, your opinions aren't the only ones out there. Grow up.

As for 90210, I thought the acting on the show was just over the top and annoying at times. The singing was fine. Personally, I found it to be nothing to write home about but it wasn't so bad either.

[starlyricist]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 10:28am

I don't know if it was the allergy meds, but I actually liked the first episode.

I tend to hate most of the teen shows on the CW (One Tree Hill and the like), but found this oddly engrossing.

I feel so dirty.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 10:29am

Winston - at least graduate High School first, and then we'll have an intellectual exchange of words. Thanks!

[megs1122]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 10:41am

I think that 90210 is directed at a specific audience so to go and outwardly bash it is awful. I think its going to do what it means to do, entertain the preteen/teen audience. I was a fan of the original so I enjoyed the various connections to that, my favorite being the return of Nat from the Peach Pit.
I think that having Spring Awakening as a part of it, is very clever marketing especially with the tour just getting going.

I really think that everyone on these boards need to get over themselves and allow others to have opinions. After all, that's what these boards are for, right?!

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 10:46am

I loved it last night...can't wait until next week!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 10:56am

I really hope it picks up i do

But they just seemed to be doing to much last night (each scene was like 30 songs long)

[legallysam]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 10:59am

I thought they were pretty good for non professional singers..yeh it wasnt as sharp as it couldve been, but do you think maybe being a rehearsal scene, thats what they were going for..?

And TDH just because people are still in high school doesnt make them any less intelectual than others, tbh, Winston talks way more sense than you do, and id much rather have a conversation with him that i would with you.

I think the new show is pretty good, i didnt watch the original, but i like the idea of using Spring Awakening, its deffinitely a good marketing scheme!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 11:02am

Poor Nat...give him more lines (and a new coffee machine) damn it lol

It was nice to see Jennie and Shannon back together, and the whole Andrea's kid been at the school and the Age 30 joke was very funny

[toanythingtaboo 2]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 11:18am

The new 90210 is targeted at tweens. The OC, Gossip Girl and basically everything on MTV is aimed at pleasing their 'I wish I were a rich and glamourous' attitude.

I personally loved The OC and I really do like Gossip Girl but I strongly refuse to ever watch The Hills etc. The latter is just so lacking of anything redeeming and I hate the fact people actually adore it and its 'cast'.

Anyways, the old 90210 was aimed at the same demographic, not the same generation. There's a massive difference. So for one to say the other is rubbish, is a ridiculous statement to make because the audiences are totally different.

I'm only 19, and I felt the generation gap. We had the OC which was a lot less focused on material wealth (even though it included it) than the relationships between the people in that lifestyle. Gossip Girl taps into that too, but it mentions the fact they're wealthy far more that the OC ever did. When it comes to 90210 I felt that it needed to be like HEY WE'RE RICH, LOOK AT US to gain the attention of the target audience.

Ok, I know I'm rambling...but basically what I'm saying is that even by a few years, the generations wanting a different type of show is clear. If The Hills can be one of the most watched shows on tv, you know somethings changed.

(end of thread jack)

The singers were fine. It was supposed to be a High School show, i.e not professional singers.
Updated On: 9/3/08 at 11:18 AM

[Sally Bowles]

Posted: 9/5/08 at 11:55am

And the book they were reading was A Tale of Two Cities, just as it's coming to broadway. Coincidence?