Lea Michele and Tommy Dorfman stepped out to attend a celebration of Balmain‘s flagship store on Madison Avenue.
26.04.2022 - 03:25 / usmagazine.com
Nothing stands between them — not even underwear. Best friends Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff met while playing lovers on Broadway in Spring Awakening, and the new HBO documentary Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known reveals that they didn’t just expose themselves on stage.
Michele, 35, and Groff, 37, played Melchior and Wendla, who have a sex scene on stage during the rock musical, but the Glee alums got up close and personal backstage.
“At one point, I literally showed him my whole vagina,” Michele recalled in the documentary. “He was like: ‘I’ve never seen a woman’s vagina before. Would you show me?’ And I was like, ‘Sure.’ And I took a desk lamp … and showed him. That’s how close we are.”
Groff is openly gay, so he had no experience with the female anatomy until Michele gave him a lesson. The doc detailed this story as they reunited along with the rest of the Tony Award-winning musical’s original cast for a 15th anniversary concert.
Michele said she opened up about the bizarre backstage moment because she felt so comfortable with the producers. “Honestly, the great thing about this documentary is it’s a wonderful microscope into who we are as individuals, and not just who people think we might be,” she told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Monday, April 25. “Radical Media and the incredible production team behind this documentary, we felt so safe and comfortable with them.”
The “Christmas in the City” singer added: “It was so wonderful to talk about this material as an adult and get asked real serious questions. Not like, ‘What’s it like to have sex with Jonathan Groff every night?’ So I just felt really comfortable with them. With that level of comfortability came a story of just what goes on behind
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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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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.
Lea Michele is opening up about what she first felt for longtime BFF Jonathan Groff.
Spring Awakening: Those You've Known, the Glee actor wore a floor-skimming mesh Jason Wu dress and matching black earrings., who was part of the original cast of the Tony Award-winning musical, is a major part of the new documentary, which also features a recording from the reunion concert in 2021 that benefited The Actors Fund. At the premiere, Michele—who has been wearing short hair lately—opted for length with wavy extensions pulled into a tight low pony by hairstylist . Makeup artist finished the look with a smokey eye and matte pink lip.The actor was photographed alongside her Spring Awakening co-star, Jonathan Groff at the event. According to Michele, their 15-year friendship is still going strong. The 35-year-old clips of the documentary in which she says that she and Groff only grew closer after they left the Broadway musical.
Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff got pretty intimate during Broadway’s “Spring Awakening”, which premiered in New York City back in 2006.
Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff share a sweet embrace on the red carpet at the premiere of Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known.
Lea Michele struts her stuff on the streets of New York City on Monday (April 25).
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Lea Michele revealed she let her BFF and Spring Awakening co-star Jonathan Groff see her genitals and used a desk lamp to give them light while she explained the female anatomy.