#spring awakening those youve known
Jonathan Groff // Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known (2022)
Playing Melchior was like such a gift because he was everything that I wanted to be but I wasn’t. He had this ability to not let the world define him, and to speak his mind and to be strong. And playing him for two years, like, cultivated this confident, strong side of myself that I didn’t have in my real life that I was learning how to have by playing Melchior, and to come to terms with who I was. And a month after I left the show, I came out of the closet, and I started my life.
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spring awakening: those you’ve known. i watched this one yesterday with @actuallylukedanes and enjoyed it. i never have as much to say about documentaries when i review them, i’m not sure why.
basically, this wasn’t my favorite musical but i did listen to it repeatedly for a while. and i didn’t connect it to cast members like john gallagher jr., who i knew from the west wing and the newsroom later–so i find that fascinating now. i also love jonathan groff, and i love stories about theater, how it works.
this documentary weaves together original performances from the very young cast and the story of how the show came into existence with the reunion performance from the same much-older cast during the pandemic, and their stories about how being in spring awakening affected their lives.
it’s fun and funny sometimes, dark and emotional at other times, and an interesting look at the cast relationships on top of that. basically, it lives up to its advertising. it’s nice and straightforward that way.
