This is one of those musicals that has an unintentionally profound effect. I lost a friend a few years ago to suicide - Moritz is Andy to me, facing the disappointment from family on his position in life, the reluctance to accept his sexuality....now he's gone. Tears my heart out....his dad could say the same things as Moritz's, cry the same tears, but he could have helped stop everything...
Every time I watch this scene I keep hoping that Moritz will say yes and go with Ilse. In my mind I say, "Come on Moritz, GO WITH ILSE!" This is such a sad scene.
I love watching what each of them do while the other sings. moritz sobbing into his mic stand when ilse has her solo part, ilse curling in on herself and clutching her flowers to her chest..... my HEART
Emma's voice is so beautiful. This is the scene that shakes me up the most, and everyone does it so well . . . I saw Steffi D and Chase and I just started sobbing. This musical changes people.
I think its the interpretation of the character... He's depressed :( I think he's remembering the good times when life was easier.. when he was younger, playing with her as a kid.
i have seen 3 different boys play Moritz (not in real life but in videos) and each of their interpretations are a little bit different. they all are amazingly talented and make a great Moritz. But in my opinion John Gallagher Jr will always be my favorite Moritz :)
when i saw the show on broadway, blake bashoff was moritz. man that scene is so sad. i totally cried. i sooooo want to watch the show again. hopefully i can see the tour cast soon. :( i love SA!
This is beyond words. Maybe I'll come back and comment later when I can make coherent thoughts. ... Believe me, Moritz... I REALLY wish you could, too.
I didn't see it on Broadway, but the stage went dark, there was a loud pop(probably the snare drum being hit extremely loud). There also was a light(probably a lighter) for a split second where the gun was.
this is the first footage of the new broadway cast i have ever seen. Emma has a really good voice! I think i might like it better then Lauren. Very beautiful. I am sooo sad this masterpiece is no longer on Broadway
Whoa, was someone singing over Gerard Canonico in "Don't Do Sadness"? That's corrupting briliance! I guess if it was the person who posted this video, then I could forgive them b/c this is an awesome view of the final show on Broadway!!
I've heard it was staged that way (from In the Flesh..you should read it...it's a fantastic book!) because Michael Mayer didn't want any connection between the two because he felt that if there was a connection and eye contact between the two, Moritz would have gone with Ilse and not killed himself.
Notice how no one laughed when Gerard said, "Enough!" I saw it twice, and people laughed both times at that line. I wish that every SA audience would behave like this. By that, I mean an audience that the majority of which has seen Spring Awakening at least once and knows what is appropriate or inappropriate. Although, from the other vids I've seen, I could do without the excessive cheering. Although, it is kind of justified because it was the last performance of SA on Broadway.
I swear I love to torture myself, all I watch is this video and Tony’s death scene from West Side Story Edit: my phone died just before he put the gun in his mouth. I think it’s trying to protect me
in my opinion, her timing is so off. She's adding weird laughs at the strangest times then gets so serious and the transitions from emotion to emotion is so abrupt and just sounds like she's overall trying to hard and ends up coming across as bad acting. I was really dissapointed by her. Gerard, however, is much better.
