That's what I need, and I believe it is coming! For some reason, this was in my mind this morning. I thought "Spring Awakening" was the title of a Broadway show, so I looked it up. So it was:
Spring Awakening is a Tony Award-winning rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater. The musical is based on the controversial 1891 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. Set in late-nineteenth century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. The original play was banned in Germany due to its portrayal of masturbation, abortion, rape and suicide. In the musical, alt-rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score.
Spring Awakening closed on Broadway on January 18, 2009, after 888 performances (859 on Broadway, 29 previews)
I watched a biography of T.W. called "Troubled Genious." It was good to see the clips of Tennessee. I also watched "Suddenly, last Summer," which comes across as overwrought but it vintage Tenn. Recently, I was told that I look like Tennessee. Even though I don't really that is good news for the show.
RLG
4 comments:
Isn't "Suddenly Last Summer" the one with Montgomery Clift where he gets eaten at the end? Shivers.
"Spring Awakening" sounds very intriguing. Not at all appropriate for the middle school audience.
Close about "Suddenly Last Summer." Montgomery Clift is in it, but he plays the psychiatrist. The person who gets eaten is Liz Taylor's cousin, Sebastian, who is never actually seen in the film.
I knew someone got eaten, and not in a good way. But I do remember that it was incredibly compelling. Isn't Katharine Hepburn in it too, and she says something really nasty about nobody getting out of this life alive or something like that? Maybe it was Bette Davis... Maybe I better rent the movie and watch it again just to be sure.
Yes, it's Katharine Hepburn playing Mrs. Venable (Sebastian's mother), "poor old bitch." I don't remember the line you quoted, but she does drop some gems. I picked up the movie for $4.00 at Safeway of all places.
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