Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known [Broadway]

Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known is a documentary about an exceptional cast coming together for a very special musical once again.

I’m jealous if you were one of the lucky few who saw the Spring Awakening reunion show in New York. But I can’t be too upset, given I accidentally saw the original cast on Broadway after they swept the 2007 Tony Awards. I lived in Brooklyn, and my friend needed someone to go with. I had no idea what I was going to see. I knew the overplayed “Barely Breathing” guy (Duncan Sheik) wrote the music; I knew that the “young Barbara Streisand” (Lea Michelle) was in it. Oh, and I knew it was about sex. I wish I could say I appreciated it as much as I should have, but I didn’t.

**Cast of Broadway’s ‘Spring Awakening’ reunite and reminisce | Features | wdel.com**

I became a fan of the stars of Spring Awakening after they left Broadway. I discovered Lea Michelle and Jonathan Groff again during the first season of Glee. Skylar Astin popped up in Pitch Perfect, and John Gallagher, Jr. starred in one of my favorite indie films, Short Term 12 and HBO’s The Newsroom. I only now appreciate what I saw on that night so many years ago.

**Spring Awakening Concert Documentary Those You’ve Known | POPSUGAR Entertainment**

Coming back together…

I adored the HBO documentary Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known. All of the cast can still sing, and their dynamic is just as powerful now as it was when they were kids. The documentary is not the reunion concert. There are clips from the performance and rehearsal and the original run. But it’s the candid interviews, particularly with Groff and Michelle, that make the documentary so unique.

**Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known will change the way we look at theatre – TVBrittanyF.com**

If you’re a musical theater fan, I encourage you to watch this once-in-a-lifetime Spring Awakening reunion documentary on either HBO or HBO Max. Check out the trailer below:

Together again, at last.
Fifteen years after the Tony-winning Broadway run of Spring Awakening, the original cast and creative team reunite for a spectacular, one-night-only concert.