Spring Awakening 2001 Workshop - 17. Whispering

[davidf1992]

Gets me every time... :'(

[4everRentlover]

i love glee to death but lea michele BELONGS on broadway

[XxCMARYSXx]

lea sounds so young in iss song :) xx

[MistyvanderAa]

The Broadway version is amazing. But here Lea's playing the real age of her character. She sounds so young, what makes the song even more haunting.

[ObsessedwithBroadway]

It's weird; I'm sitting here thinking, "Wow, it's good the show didn't open until she was older, because (it sounds goreous, don't ge me wrong) she sounds too young here." But she's the same age as Wendla would've been. That's kinda scary to me... so young. I dunno. I guess it puts the whole thing into perspective.

[gleecret]

It's really amazing how much it had changed from the original play. They had made amazing changes for the better. :) Lea Michele is just an angel.

[greenboro7240]

Although I love the version they have now I am in love ith how haunting this version is! I wish I could see this version on stage! It is so beautiful and different. Of course I have to give a lot of credit to Lea Michele and her incredibly amazing voice! And the fact that she was 14 when she did this makes it even more Beautiful and haunting! she is so talented!

[izzfifteen]

OMG she was so young!!!

[BrittanysMusicVideos]

Wait... at this point in the show's development was the story still that she was raped? Because I know that that changed at a certain point. If it is, then why is there the line "Little Miss didn't do right"?

Also, this is completely beautiful and haunting. And I like the chord at the very end more than what's in the normal version.

[thealexx3]

this song sounds so much sadder too since she was raped. in the final version now, theres a touch of happiness because she shared something special with melchior, but that element of it that i love so much is completely gone in this version. i still like it, but it's much more haunting than usual.

[thealexx3]

the youngness of this voice fits it SO well.

except the masked man is ruining every song he appears in haha, so glad he's gone.

[eyelufewe]

Suuuuuuuch a gorgeous sound. Her voice is soo soothing to my ears! She is truely blessed.

[bluedevilsrok]

Lea's talent is endless. She is 14 hear... come on.... beautiful voice! :D

[thishatandyou]

I also thought that, in the final version of Whispering, Wendla sort of...predicts what's going to happen to her "see the father bent in grief, the mother dressed in mourning, sister crumbles" and so on. We learn of Wendla's sister at the start of the musical, don't we? I always thought she was acknowledging that, to the rest of her country, she would be an unclean, god-defying thing by having the child, but she wanted to go ahead. The Masked Man sining that part makes it all the more potent.

[Sophieste163]

OMG she's so young!!!!! so cute!

[asoulenchanted]

anyone have the lyrics for this version?

[alizonbway]

Did she still smile at the end of this song? Like she was happy to be a mother?

[dsetzer19]

I'm glad they got rid of the masked man... it sounds kind of creepy with him singing along

[ellismusic1393]

she sounds adorable.

[Blondezilla90]

this creeps me out...xD Lea was so young and the guy in the background just sounds old LOL XD

[rinna81]

ahahah collins from rent is the masked man. I should have recognized it sooner with his characteristic vibrato. i love him

[PessimisticOptimist2]

jesse l martin? :D

[andk3llysaid]

ARE YOU SURE ITS HIM?!

[rinna81]

yeah

[thealexx3]

@rinna81 i wish it was collins! its Michael McElroy

[wackeal]

@thealexx3 its the collins from the final cast of rent

[thealexx3]

@wackeal oh haha yeah i just think of jesse l. martin when i think of collins

michael mcelroy is still brilliant though

[krispykritterlover]

She just sounds so young, it kind of freaks me out. And she's, what, fourteen here, right? So she's playing the actual age of her character. Breathtaking.

[sandee12341]

i actually love the fact that she sounds so young well cuz she is 14 here lol but i mean i like to hear wendla with an innocent pure voice espically for this song cuz its more haunting a realistic to the story dnt get me wrong here i love lea but i think her voice is too mature for wendla

[krispykritterlover]

Lea does have an amazing voice, but I agree, it is so mature! The good thing about the show, however, is that when the characters sing, they aren't the characters anymore. They are the actors. So Lea doesn't have to sound 14, though I agree it does help. It makes it BEAUTIFUL.

[sandee12341]

they r still the character wen they sing tho they just are singing basically in thier head no one sees nor hears them but themselves so they still are thier characters lol but yea i do agree lea has an amazing voice but its much too mature for wendla dnt get me wrong shes a great wendla and amazing actress but idk her voice dsnt really fit her character for me in my opinion however i saw christy altimore as wendla and she had the most pure innocent voice and it really added alot more depth to

[sandee12341]

wendla yet leas voice is amazing and more trained than christy, but i think since christy has more a raw voice it add like more vaulnrable sense u kno

[krispykritterlover]

Right, I get that. But, I really do think that the actors cease to be the characters when they sing. Have you read Spring Awakening: In the Flesh? It goes into more detail about that and is a really great read.

I loved Christy as Wendla. She was amazing, and I'll always remember her as my first Wendla! But Lea will always be my favorite. I see your point, however.

[sandee12341]

well what we can both agree on is the SPRING AWAKENING is an AMAZING BREATHTAKING musical lol

[krispykritterlover]

Yes, we can! And we can both get ANGRY at anyone who disagrees! Grrrr... lol yes, it is quite breathtaking, I agree.

[krispykritterlover]

Actually, I think I even like this better than the current version. I never thought I'd like anything better than the current version, lol!

[krispykritterlover]

This song gives me goosebumps every time I listen. This version, or the current version. But the dialogue in this song is just so sad.

[zwappp]

Aw, little Lea! ^^

[LegallyBlondeWicked1]

Her voice sounds adorable. :)

[cherilannXD]

does anyone know where i cant find the exact words said in the song? thank you :D

[ioutwo]

well these lyrics are just a little different from the ones sang in the show, so if you take those lyrics its really basically the same just some words are in different places

[trodern]

is this jenna doing the workshop?

[benjywho]

No, it's Lea.

[Capretty130]

Is it wrong that I laughed when Wendla's mother goes: "Moritz Steifel?" and Wendla goes "OF COURSE NOT!"

[UveBeenLuPwned123094]

hahahha. "OF COURSE NOT!" i think the way she said it was intended to be basically saying "FUCK NO."

[aniala2009]

is that McElroy in the background at the beginning? i know he was masked man and all...

[xxFelineOfAvenueBxx]

yep, that's him

[lightintheattic]

I quite like Lea's voice here. I like her voice in the OBCR too, but she always seemed too mature to pull off being fourteen in more recent years.

[apiewrill01]

Wasnt she actually 13 or 14 here? correct me if im wrong! XD

[gossipgirldidi]

you're right

[sillymeggles]

she was 14

[iceboxx12]

i agree with you 100%

[midnightsun1000]

i really like this version, its moving, but i didnt like i when melchior came in!!!

[benjywho]

I'm pretty sure it's the Masked Man.

[erhalperin]

OMG, i wonder if this is the part that the london melchior sings during this song

[ir0nickid]

It's not

:)

[elmo2488]

but the masked man was never in Spring Awakening outside of the original original.

[benjywho]

Except he was. Like in this workshop. He acts as the narrator in this version of the musical, while in the original play he appears in the graveyard scene. In this workshops he sings in Mama Who Bore Me, All Numb, Great Sex, Touch Me, Mirror-Blue Night, Left Behind, Whispering and Mirror-Blue Night (Reprise) and Song of Purple Summer. Listen to Mirror-Blue Night (Reprise) to hear what the character's about.

[elmo2488]

yep, sorry, my mistake.

[iceboxx12]

benjywho-i actually like her voice better now, but that just my opinion, however her character is rather young so it does fit more, so i do see what you mean

[benjywho]

Don't get me wrong, her adult singing voice is ridiculously powerful and amazingly gorgeous, I just prefer something a little less mature and more innocent.

[blahdida13]

aww shes so adorable!

[iceboxx12]

wow her voice has matured soooo much since this. haha.

[benjywho]

I kind of wish it hadn't. I feel her voice in this recording is more appropriate for the character.

[xlaurenp]

I def. like the "another summer story" verse much better. when i read that in he liberetto i loved it much more.

[haydonobob]

i like the changed lyrics...but these were so sad...and realistic...idk

and did anyone else notice the note change they made to the piano? haha

[leciga28]

LOVE it!!! hehehe I like the new version better, but I really love Lea's innocent voice here... It's so interesting to hear this

[hiyalisamarie]

well without the masked man the show seems more real. its more believeable without him.

[feeeeeebz]

her voice is so much younger here lol

[alessiax]

15 year old lea? adorableee and still amazing as ever.

[littleleo916]

I really like the new version much more. The broadway version is like she is saying 'I'm not sorry for what I did' and this one is like 'i can't believe this happened' I don't like the masked man who is all the songs either.

[alyslikesfao]

I think that this version is closer to Wedekind's victimized Wendla. Sater said that he wanted to change that as the show progressed.

[bwaymusicalboy]

but during the workshop, melchior raped her, so she WAS thinking "how did this happen".

[lostONstage710]

wow, her voice really has changed a lot since 2001....but it's still amazing

[haydonobob]

i kinda wish they had kept the masked man, kinda...

[Haruka0Akane]

I agree, it makes the show alot better. I wish they incorporated that into the new version.

[cartagena612]

the new version seems more powerful

[B2Sweet16]

Omg Lea's voice has changed SO much!

[repenny]

i thought this song was just added when they went to broadway?

[dancingskittle]

no, you might be thinking of The Guilty Ones.. that song was added in place of There Once Was A Pirate during the Broadway transfer.