#dwsa videos

[rat-clown420]

oh my god. years ago there was an amazing bootleg of Deaf West Spring Awakening on YouTube but it is not there anymore 😭😭😭😭 does anyone have a boot I need this

[likeimurloverr]

Every time i watch a video of spring awakening with the original staging i get reminded of how much i prefer the dwsa version

[dwsavideos]

Hey guys, I have some fun news to share with you all! 👀🎸🎥

I have teamed up with The Theatre Kid on YouTube (who apparently doesn’t have Tumblr lol) and I made a cool Sing Street NYTW mini documentary kinda like the mini documentary I made for DWSA! The Theatre Kid let me use a lot of footage from their past Sing Street videos and I did the rest of the editing and finding other videos and audios to put in. It should be up on DWSA Videos by tonight or tomorrow!

Again, just like the other one, it’s just for fun and it’s NOT an official documentary by any means, I do not profit off this channel so I’m not making any money off of the borrowed videos, and all the videos and audios will be credited to their original owners! It’s a really short mini doc, I probably could’ve added a whole twenty more minutes of Broadway shutdown content and the effects it had on the industry, along with the touching memorials for Broadway actors who passed due to Covid or during the shutdown. Maybe I’ll save all that for another time. I do feel like making these unofficial documentaries is a fun way to produce content, so this might be the second of many, or maybe it will inspire a whole new era for the DWSA Videos Channel! I’m thinking about a rebrand that will be more inclusive to other musicals that I create content for (hit me up if anyone’s got any ideas lmao.)

EDIT: That being said, I changed by YouTube name to “Broadway Fan Videos” which is just a temporary horrible name until I come up with something better.

Anyway, definitely watch it if you love Sing Street/Broadway, or if you’re interested in the whole Broadway shutdown situation and how the creative team and cast of Sing Street overcame the challenges of the pandemic to raise a ton of money for a great cause in a revolutionary way!!

It was a bittersweet project to work on, because it makes me sad to think that after all this time there’s still no Sing Street on Broadway, but I’m super proud of what this cast did Off-Broadway and the impact they made during the shutdown while they were all apart.

Thanks for all your continued support! 🎸🤟🏻

[improperingenue]

Spring Awakening Fandom Tag

By (@winter-alseepening)

I saw @dwsavideos and @feelssogoodinmyarms do this and was inspired :)

1. how were you introduced to the show?

I always knew it existed, but one day on a long car drive I just decided to sit down and listen to it, and then everything clicked.

2. Seen a production live?

No, sadly. The most recent performance in my area was a high school that production last year -- it was a big deal but I could not make it.

3. Dream role/character you relate to most

I would literally kill to play Ilse! Unfortunately most of her songs are right over my first passaggio rip

For character I relate to the most? Some weird combination of Wendla’s naïveté and Melchior’s pretentious bitchiness.

4. Favorite male character

Hanschen — there’s something so satisfying when you see him done right on stage (even though it’s rare).

5. Favorite female character

Ilse, but I feel like Anna and Thea are under appreciated.

6. Deaf West Revival or Original Broadway Cast?

OBC laid the groundwork, obviously, but DWSA all the way! I’m actually also partial to the Almeida production (unpopular opinion, I know) because the technical and design elements just give it its own hauntingly beautiful identity that is totally unique

7. Favorite song

Touch Me but also Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind but also Clouds Will Drift Away which was sadly cut

8. Least favorite song

Maybe this is a cop-out, but I always skip There Once Was A Pirate.

9. Favorite quote/line

Listening/To the souls in the fool's night/ Fumbling mutely with their rude hands/ And there's heartache without end

10. Favorite TV performance

Definitely Touch Me on Seth Meyers

11. Favorite cast member(s)

Andy Mientus, Krysta Rodriguez, Krystina Alabado, Jonathan Groff (and Michael Arden basically counts, right…?)

12. Favorite cast member moment

Daniel Durant and Alex Boniello dramatically signing along songs backstage (especially that one video where Daniel attempts guitar and Alex attempts the signs and it’s such a mess)

but basically anything in this video

13. Do you write fan fiction?

Okay exposing myself but I wrote (am writing?) Still Together When It Ends which was a fake dating au that’s gotten a little out of hand

14. Do you make fan art?

Not really, but I like to draw if I have free time (which is rare right now)

15. Do you cosplay?

No, but if I come across some nice vintage dresses I will buy them

16. Don’t do Sadness or Blue Wind?

I can’t pick!! The magic of the songs is really how they layer seamlessly together.

17. Word of your body or the Reprise?

Reprise if DWSA, WOYB if any other version though

18. Touch Me or My Junk?

Touch Me, easy! Although moment of appreciation for the My Junk snowstorm video

19. Explain the song of purple summer

It’s about the passage of time, of the kids moving from one phase of their lives to another. They’re tapestries of their struggles and desires and dreams and guilt that they’ll always have, and they sing of everything they’ve known and the idealized future they hope to come. It’s a summer they might not see, but the seasons are changing anyway.

20. Explain the song of purple summer (wrong answers only)

Actually it’s just an excuse to show off all the fake flowers from Michael’s the theater department has stocked away

[berrymeter]

one thing you need to know about me (or maybe not idk) is that daniel durant. ok this is a video i rbed hours ago but daniel durant. guy who played a character i deeply care about in the deaf west production of a musical i used to be hyperfixated on. seeing him in Any other situations is like. MORITZ STIEFEL????? & it fucks me up bc clearly he's gotten shit done since dwsa but. i'm still there mentally

[feelssogoodinmyarms]

Spring Awakening Fandom Tag

(By @winter-asleepening )

Doing this bc i miss springy wakening😔

1. how were you introduced to the show?

when i was really into hamilton in like 2016 jonathan groff was white boy of the month for a while and i was consuming all the groff content that i could and i came across that video of him talking about when he fucked up left behind. and then i listened to left behind and cried and read the wiki page and watched the obc boot and then i woke up here

2. Seen a production live?

yus i've seen 3

3. Dream role/character you relate to most

i've been in love with wendla since i laid eyes on her and i would die to play her. im obsessed with her, she's got so much more depth than people realize and that was cut during the transition from play to musical fuck you s*ter and i would love to bring that to my rendition of her. and i was also assaulted when i was her age, i was also suicidal, i was also confused af and my mom was not helpful, i also wanted to be loved so badly, i just see a lot of my teenage self in wendla. i related to her so much when i first saw the show and that's a big reason i got so obsessed with it.

4. Favorite male character

prob moritz or hanschen. they are 2 sides of the same dramatic ass coin. they also have daddy issues and are gay like girl me too.

5. Favorite female character

all of them? wendla holds a special place in my heart but like. there is so much to love about all of them even anna and thea who we know almost nothing about have the building blocks of great characters. i've always loved combining what we know about the characters from both the musical and the play to make more complete characters especially because s*ter cut so much of the girls characterization bc he's a sexist pos fuck you and i def do that with anna and thea.

6. Deaf West Revival or Original Broadway Cast?

dwsa for life but obc walked so they could fly

7. Favorite song

AAAAAA probably touch me just cuz it's soooooo pretty

8. Least favorite song

probably woyb bc im heterophobic and melchiorphobic

9. Favorite quote/line

musical: "giving yourself over to someone else? defending yourself endlessly until finally you surrender and let heaven break over you? i just put myself in her place. and imagine"

play: "won't you come visit me in my dreams now and then? i'll welcome you with outstretched arms and kiss your breath away"

10. Favorite TV performance

dwsa touch me on seth meyers i have to watch it daily or i get 1 level of exhaustion

11. Favorite cast member(s)

i can vouch that kathryn gallagher is cool as fuck cuz i met her at a ben platt concert but j groff and jgj seem pretty cool. alex wyse and jbw seem unhinged i think i could hang with them. smf and katie whoever are so talented i wish she wasnt an anti vaxxer. andy mientus attacked me with a candelabra just like riff raff did to rocky😔

12. Favorite cast member moment

when josh castille followed me back on instagram when andy mientus, kathryn gallagher, and josh castille covered sex by the 1975 and all the videos the cast made on various social media platforms

13. Do you write fan fiction?

unfortunately

14. Do you make fan art?

i have made 3 fan arts that i don't think i have anymore

15. Do you cosplay?

i am too poor

16. Don’t do Sadness or Blue Wind?

both bitch

17. Word of your body or the Reprise?

reprise cuz i love gay ppl

18. Touch Me or My Junk?

bothhhhh

19. Explain the song of purple summer

vague hope ig? like "the adults have failed everyone but we're all 15 and will be adults soon so maybe we'll be ok" with flowery language

20. Explain the song of purple summer (wrong answers only)

ilse and mulchy took acid to see their dead friends

im tagging @dwsavideos and anyone else who sees this and is into spring awakening cuz idk if any of my sa mutuals are still active😭

[winter-asleepening]

Spring Awakening Fandom Tag

By (@winter-alseepening)

1. how were you introduced to the show?

Through theater fans on instagram and tumblr :)

2. Seen a production live?

No 😭 waiting for the day

3. Dream role/character you relate to most

So disclaimer that I’m not a performer but I do relate to Moritz a lot and love his songs so it would be really … affirming ? To play Moritz 😌

4. Favorite male character

MORITZ I genuinely love him sm..

5. Favorite female character

ILLSE NEUMANN SUPREMACY

Ashamed to say that my time in the fandom previously I ignored a lot of the female characters 🤧 so sorry ladies I do love you,,

6. Deaf West Revival or Original Broadway Cast?

OKAY

So deaf west spring awakening is in my eyes a perfect revival and so artfully done so I reigns as “best version” imo.

BUT OBC has such a “kids rocking out in their garage band” energy to it ?? Where the show is so fresh and new and scary. And the energy is so grounded in nostalgia and I think it’s really special 🤧

7. Favorite song

TOUCH ME I will always die ,, the acoustician guitar stripped down start to the song is just so 💔💔💔

8. Least favorite song

I Believe ?? it’s more of a scene than a song tbh. And I think it’s really powerful as a scene . BUT like from a cast recording, album standpoint it’s a skip imo

(There once was a pirate bonus track in the cast album. Have never not skipped it)

9. Favorite quote/line

“She said love may make you blind, kid- well I wouldn’t mind at all”

10. Favorite TV performance

Forever and always the deaf west revival performance of Touch me on Seth Meyers 💙

11. Favorite cast member(s)

Jonathan groff and John Gallagher jr. are my favs from OBC

Deaf west I feel like I love everyone,, genuinely so happy that this production introduced me to so many amazing actors that I wouldn’t have otherwise known because they’re deaf,, Joshua Castille and Sandra Mae Frank are favs of mine 😌

Also I’m in love with Andy Mientus so him… obviously

12. Favorite cast member moment

Daniel Durant and Alex Boniello playing Animal Crossing together in one of the Vlogs of Purple Summer, very cute

Also the entire OBC reunion in the HBO documentary 🤧 genuinely so sweet to see everyone reconnect and reminisce 💔I cried

13. Do you write fan fiction?

I haven’t before but I’d probably come up with character AUs or head cannons or something

14. Do you make fan art?

YES !! I plan on doing a lot more but I drew a lot of Moritzs and Melchiors back in 2018 or so 😅

15. Do you cosplay?

I really want to cosplay from spring awakening,, illse’s OBC costume is so pretty💔 and I have a mighty need to cosplay Moritz for gender-y and kin reasons 😅

16. Don’t do Sadness or Blue Wind?

I always sing along with Moritz’s part but both are so beautiful, best characters my sweet children

17. Word of your body or the Reprise?

I would watch DWSA word of your body reprise RELIGIOUSLY (for totally straight person reasons) the revival does a great job taking a scene that was mostly played for laughs and make the characters seem much more grounded and whole. 💕

18. Touch Me or My Junk?

yes….. touch me is a great song but my junk is one of my favorite scenes in the show it’s so silly and crazy and I love it smm

Also the snowstorm Jonas video with the DWSA cast singing My Junk is like- my fav

19. Explain the song of purple summer

Okay, the song of purple summer is the kids singing about how they will carry with them their struggles and sing of this idealized perfect world that will someday be real because love will outlive hate and prejudice. There is one day going to be a world where no one will be ashamed to love and be loved and everything will be beautiful, even if it isn’t now.

20. Explain the song of purple summer (wrong answers only)

Illse converts everyone in the cast and the audience to her Cottage-core hippie religion….

[transpetrikov]

learning asl alone without any classes is so difficult. i hit a road block in my learning and stopped practicing but im still glad of what i know and still remember. i would be impressed with anyone for learning even the most basic of things. the intake stage for that language is practically non-existent online and i was so lucky to be obsessed with dwsa at the time bc thats pretty much all i had. the ability to rewatch these videos so many times in one day really benefited me.

and even then a lot of that isn’t conversational. just words you pick up here and there.

[accessible-tumbling]

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Image 1: a tweet by dickpic van dyke (@/YoungCogan) that readswhen I had surgery I assumed that when they were giving me anaesthetic that they'd count down from ten like you see on the telly but instead a czech nurse just looked down at me and said "goodbye" and I was gone. i laugh every time i think about it.

Image 2: a reply by Mary Louke Hoare Greene (@/LHGLuke) that reads I was having shoulder surgery last year and the anaesthetic stung as it went in so I said "ah that stings", and the last thing I heard was "whoops, that wasn't supposed to hurt" right before I drifted off 😬.

Image 3: a reply by what now ? (@/yabbie5674) that reads Knee reconstruction, spinal block due to a cold Halfway through I come to enough to hear the surgeon and the nurse arguing over where the screwdriver was. Helpful me said "I've got one in my car downstairs" Fade to black.

Image 4: a reply by Dusk 🌙 (@/nekoromancy) that reads I still remember right before going under for my spinal fusion, the nurse said "So you'll be in anaesthesia during the surgery. I'm starting it now." A couple of seconds passed and I was like "So when does it kick in?" Well those couple of seconds were 9 hours later post-op. lol.

Image 5: a reply by 🌈 (@/Carmelomon) that reads When I was getting surgery they asked me what I wanted to listen to before I drifted off and I said I didn't mind. They said "cool because we only have christmas songs" before they gathered around me and sang Merry Christmas as I passed out laughing.

Image 6: a reply by Clifton Hill cat (@/CliftonHCat) that reads As they gave me the anaesthetic I said, "What if it doesn't work?" and the nurse said, "It usually works, but if it doesn't, we have a hammer."

Image 7: a reply by boscribbles (@/anna_bohac) that reads I have a very low resting heart rate. When waking up from anaesthesia, I kept dozing off to the point where the nurse said "you could just TRY to stay awake so we can let you onto the ward? Your heart rate keeps dropping off the face of the earth" lmao.

Image 8: a reply by emmy (@/EmmyStarked) that reads They brought me to OR and started arguing about which songs to put on the playlist (and not even a relaxing one - these MFs where choosing bangers). then one of them saw the look on my face and said 'okay you go to sleep' and just jabbed me.

Image 9: a reply by emphabet's Christmas lights are still up (@/CuddlePotato) that reads I went under one, for appendicitis. I remember this conversation: Me: can I have some water? Nurse: not right now, you're about to go in for surgery Me: I'm really thirsty, when do I go in? Nurse: you've already finished.

Image 10: a reply by Final Fantasy Feels Fiesta (@/CaliginousZack) that reads So I had jaw surgery when I was just over 17, and they had given me a light sedative before being wheeled into the OR because I was nervous AF. So, I was already high when I got into the OR, then the anesthesia came and I was like "I'm gonna fight it" I lost.

Image 11: a reply by DWSA [CC] Videos (@/13MTM80) that reads When I was 5 I had surgery and the surgeon "to help me feel less nervous" decided to show me all the knives he was going to use, right before I was anesthetized. This was at a children's hospital and it did not help me.

Image 12: a reply by Tara (@TheBluestStar) that reads When I had surgery, after the anaesthetic, I told a member of the surgical team that I couldn't possibly be operated on because my fanny was on fire.

Image 13: a reply by Mamba🐍💜Forever💛 (@/Tbird_559) that reads When I had my [surgery] a nurse told me to count as high as I could, I asked what's the record (wasting time) and she said no one makes it to 10. I said bet, made it all the way to 2 😤.

Image 14: a reply by A Wine-Drunk, Barred-Out NYT Writer (@/PapiHustle) that reads My anesthetist put the mask on me and said "I want you to count down from 100" and I remember saying "no" and then waking up 3 hours later.

Image 15: two replies by untitled BooseGoose game 💾 (@/BooseGoose) that read Whenever they put me under sedation for colonoscopies I have no memory of them but they always ask "Is it working yet" as they start the IV and as soon as it hits I start laughing and then the rest of the day is pretty much a blank.

Also I remember one time my consultant told me he's scared of dogs and apparently while I was sedated I told him I was going to chase him around endoscopy with a picture of my Yorkshire Terrier. The man literally had a camera up my ass and I'm making threats.

Image 16: (screenshotted by @thefreewillagency) tumblr tag that reads #who do you think took your boobs

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[blue-wind-gets-so-bare]

@ elsnicketful on youtube for bare la 2013 (hoping thats the one you meant)

www.youtube.com/ playlist?list=PLUQjk-dX46zTFJbZybZBhED_HFzyk0T9f <<has like. far too many spring awakening videos

playlist?list=PLpHDCMkbvLtvYJvxPKGkubVRC0fo3kyNj <this has just dwsa

OMG THANK YOU i think the one recording of bare was gone when i checked so im happy theres still one out there

[dwsavideos]

I see I have lots of new followers on here so I gotta say: Feel free to send me asks! I know I was gone for a while but I’m back and should be more active now. If anyone has any video recommendations I’d love to hear them since I’ve had a creative block. It can be any musical, not just DWSA or Sing Street!! :)

[blue-wind-gets-so-bare]

VOTE FOR RICKY POTTS!!!

him compilation: https://youtu.be/_R_WnXLCe1I

(also if you like dwsa, the video above has alex wyse playing ricky so you know hes good)

what does spongebob have that he doesnt

THIRD PLACE: Ricky Potts (Ride the Cyclone) vs. Spongebob (Spongebob)

[13mtm80]

idk if you're still here, but if you are, are you still accepting video transcripts from your SA Captions List? totally ok if not but I wanted to check before I went through the effort of making a whole transcript and then having nothing to do with it :)

Hi, I'm sort of still here. I am mostly still accepting transcripts although I would need the transcript to be timecoded.

I am currently unable to splice non-timecoded transcripts into timecoded ones because of health issues with my hands (this is why I haven't been captioning).

I know this makes it harder for volunteers to help, but I am for the foreseeable future unable to set transcripts to time and add them as captions. So files need to already be timecoded for me to be able to add the file to a video.

~Mackenzie

[loveintvworlds]

never having seen spring awakening live makes me like kinda sad but the fact that i never have and never will see Deaf West Spring Awakening sends me into a spiral of despair from which it takes me days to recover

[somniorumfactus]

listen. listen to me. gansey looks like austin mckenzie

[such-a-radical]

I DID IT

also featuring the remains of my fourth grade skull phase