Lea Michele is touring!
28.04.2022 - 19:09 / etonline.com
came back together for a one-night-only concert to benefit the Actors Fund. And the entire reunion was documented for the upcoming HBO film,, which features all-new, revealing interviews with stars Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff and John Gallagher Jr.
and captures what it was like to reconnect during an unlikely time for everyone. Ahead of the film’s debut on May 3, only ET has an exclusive preview of the emotional reunion as Michele rehearses her character, Wendla’s, opening solo number, “Mama Who Bore Me.” “We have three rehearsal days and then we’re gonna perform it on stage, so I’m scared,” she says in the clip.
“I told Jonathan I haven’t been that nervous or anxious since the day my son was born.”Michele adds, “It was a tsunami of emotions.” “Watching her sing that song, I was like, ‘Oh my god. I saw this 19-year-old memory and just lost my mind,’” says Groff, who is overcome with feelings during the rehearsal. The clip only offers a tiny glimpse into the deep bond that formed between Michele and Groff, who starred in the 2006, Tony Award-winning coming-of-age rock musical from musician Duncan Sheik and lyricist Steven Sater.
Both actors originated the roles alongside Gallagher and the rest of the ensemble of young actors, including Lauren Pritchard, Jonathan B. Wright, Lilli Cooper, Gideon Glick, Skylar Astin, Brian Charles Johnson, Phoebe Strole and Remy Zaken. Getting back together offered the cast, particularly Michele and Groff, a chance to share lots of memories and untold stories about the production.
Lea Michele is touring!
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NEW YORK -- While many of John Gallagher Jr.'s peers went to college, he didn't. His university became “Spring Awakening.”Gallagher spent much of what would have been his prime college years — from 20 to 23 — starring in the original, envelop-pushing Broadway show that musicalized teen angst.“It was an education," he said.
Spring Awakening came together for a one-night-only concert doubling as a pandemic-era benefit for The Actors Fund.Promoted as an “emotional, star-studded tribute to the groundbreaking musical,” footage recorded at the reunion factors into a new documentary from the same producers behind David Byrne’s American Utopia and that will also air on HBO and then stream on HBO Max starting next week.Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known relates the show’s underdog origins and path to Tony glory, universal themes of teenage repression and angst, and what a press release calls “the unconventional love story of breakout stars Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele.”Back in 2006, years before Glee, Groff and Michele played leading roles in the large but mostly unknown, mostly teenage cast, all coming together and betting on this new edgy and provocatively themed rock musical set in the 1890s.Other featured participants include John Gallagher Jr., Lauren Pritchard, Lilli Cooper, Skylar Astin, Gerard Canonico, Jennifer Damiano, Christine Estabrook, Gideon Glick, Robert Hager, Brain C. Johnson, Krysta Rodriguez, Stephen Spinella, Phoebe Strole, Jonathan B.
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