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For American Rose, a day of 'Awakening'
Mentoring-minded theater company takes on groundbreaking rock musical SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE ARTICLE
October 22, 2011
What the CRITICS are saying:
Charlene Baldridge (see full review)
"..one comes home more impressed than ever over the quality of San Diego’s youthful performers.
This opportunity to see the younger and the older, more experienced kids back-to-back is a rare privilege indeed"
The company ... is impressive, with Koppman-Gue providing a sensitive, vocally excellent Melchoir,
who seems genuinely shocked at his own capacity for violence. Nadia Guevara portrayed Wendla,
puzzled by the changes in her body. Guevara, whose credits include Moonlight Stage Productions
and New Village Arts, is a fine singer, with presence.
Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader
"...director Ira Bauer-Spector's choices [work].
He has the cast sit in the audience.
They drift on and off in always fluid, kaleidoscopic patterns."
Fifteen-year-old Ian Brinistool, who won a Craig Noel Award in 2009,
heads the [red] cast as Melchior and gets all the perplexity,
and slender hope, in the character
Book & Lyrics by STEVEN SATER
Music by DUNCAN SHEIK
Based on the play by FRANK WEDEKIND
Winner of 8 TONY Awards, including BEST MUSICAL,
SPRING AWAKENING celebrates the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood
with a power, poignancy, and passion that you will never forget.
Adapted from Frank Wedekind's 1891 expressionist play about the trials, tears, and exhilaration
of the teen years, it has been hailed as the "Best Musical of the Year" by the New York Times, New York Post,
Star Ledger, Journal News, New York Observer, and USA Today.
SPRING AWAKENING is not recommended for children under 13 years of age.
IT GETS BETTER - A VIDEO FROM THE CAST & CREW
OF SPRING AWAKENING
PROMO VIDEO OF ART'S SPRING AWAKENING
PRODUCTION PHOTOS
RED CAST
Elizabeth Morse as Wendla "Mama Who Bore Me"
Krysti Litt (Adult Females)
"My Junk"
Krysti Litt foreground, and Left to Right - Brooke Rubino, Julia Vanderwiel, Truly Bailey, Elizaeth Morse Sydney Loveall, Nadia Guevara, Hailee Byrd, Larissa Garcia, Maybelle Covington
Left to right: Ira Bauer-Spector, Trevor Sanderson, Ian Brininstool (standing), Hanz Enyeart, Dylan Hoffinger (standing), Bryan Dorman, Corey Hable, Shaun Tuazon, Nick Brammer, WIlliam Corkery
"Touch Me"
Left to right: Brooke Rubino, Julia Vanderwiel, Truly Bailey, Nadia Guevara, Elizabeth Morse, Maybelle Covington, Evelyn Sparks, Larissa Garcia
"Touch Me"
Ian Brininstool (Melchior) & Dylan Hoffinger (Moritz) with Teen Ensemble
"The Dark I Know So Well"
Meagan Pitcher (Martha), Kelly Prendergast (Ilse)
"And Then There Were None"
Dylan Hoffinger, Nick Brammer (Hanschen)
"And Then There Were None"
Bryan Dorman (Otto), Dylan Hoffinger, Nick Brammer (Hanschen)
"And Then There Were None"
Bryan Dorman (Otto), Corey Hable (Ernst), Connor Boyd (Georg), Dylan Hoffinger (Mortiz), Nick Brammer (Hanschen)
"The Guilty Ones"
Elizabeth Morse (Wendla), Ira Bauer-Spector (Adult Males), Ian Brininstool (Melchior)
"I Don't Do Sadness"
Dylan Hoffinger
"I Don't Do Sadness / Blue Winds"
Kelly Prendergast (Ilse)
"I Don't Do Sadness / Blue Winds"
Dylan Hoffinger
"Left Behind"
Ian Brininstool, Ira Bauer-Spector, Kelly Prendergast
"Totally F***ed"
Krysti Litt, Ian Brininstool, Ira Bauer-Spector
& Teen Ensemble
"Those You've Known"
Dylan Hoffinger, Ian Brininstool, Elizabeth Morse
"Those You've Known"
Dylan Hoffinger, Ian Brininstool, Elizabeth Morse
The Song of Purple Summer
Company
WHITE CAST
My Junk
My Junk
Touch Me
Kevin Koppman-Gue (Melchior) & Company
Touch Me
Trevor Sanderson (Moritz),
Kevin Koppman-Gue (Melchior) & Company
"The Dark I Know Well"
Samantha Greenstone (Martha) & Kyrsten Hafso (Ilse)
Kevin Koppman-Gue (Melchior)
"I Believe"
Dance soloist: Haley Batzer
"Blue Winds"
Kyrsten Hafso (Ilse)
"I Don't Do Sadness / Blue Winds"
Kyrsten Hafso (Ilse) & Trevor Sanderson (Moritz)
"I Don't Do Sadness / Blue Winds"
Kyrsten Hafso & Trevor Sanderson
"Those You've Known"
Trevor Sanderson, Kevin Koppman-Gue, Nadia Guevara
"Those You've Known"
Trevor Sanderson, Kevin Koppman-Gue, Nadia Guevara
The Song of Purple Summer
Company
The Song of Purple Summer
Company
SINCE
1996 ... American Rose Theatre's mission
is to create and produce performing arts that serve and educate the
community. Our youth program provides educational arts training for children and young
adults who plan pursue the performing arts in college, and beyond,
American
Rose Theatre is a nonequity professional 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.READ MORE
