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== [[Spring Awakening]] == |
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== Main Characters == |
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== Melchior Gabor == |
=== Melchior Gabor === |
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[[File:melchi_1940.jpg|frame]] |
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{{quote|''Played by Jonathan Groff''}} |
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Headstrong, handsome, and charismatic. He knows much more than the others because of what he reads in books. Melchior is the best friend to Moritz, and often finds himself getting into trouble for standing up for his nervous wreck of a friend. He is also a love interest to Wendla. See [[Unwanted Harem]] for his other admirers (pretty much the whole teenage female cast, bar Martha.) |
Headstrong, handsome, and charismatic. He knows much more than the others because of what he reads in books. Melchior is the best friend to Moritz, and often finds himself getting into trouble for standing up for his nervous wreck of a friend. He is also a love interest to Wendla. See [[Unwanted Harem]] for his other admirers (pretty much the whole teenage female cast, bar Martha.) |
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* [[Anti |
* [[Anti-Hero]] |
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]] |
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]] |
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* [[Big No]]: On discovering {{spoiler|Wendla's freshly-dug grave. Often repeated by the Groff, but other Melchiors just went for one.}} |
* [[Big No]]: On discovering {{spoiler|Wendla's freshly-dug grave. Often repeated by the Groff, but other Melchiors just went for one.}} |
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* [[Bishonen]] |
* [[Bishonen]] |
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* [[Grief Song]]: Sings "Left Behind" at {{spoiler|Moritz's funeral to the father that kicked him out when he most needed it. Melchior is pissed}} |
* [[Grief Song]]: Sings "Left Behind" at {{spoiler|Moritz's funeral to the father that kicked him out when he most needed it. Melchior is pissed}} |
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== Moritz Stiefel == |
=== Moritz Stiefel === |
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{{quote|''Played by John Gallagher Jr.''}} |
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Melchior's insecure best friend whose dreams of women haunt him to the point that he is too afraid to fall asleep. He is disgusted by his new sexual feelings and his inability to control them. As this is the 19th century, he is terrified to even ''speak'' of such things aloud, and asks Melchior to [[MacGuffin|write down the knowledge he needs and to slip it into his satchel after Gym class.]] He passes his exams despite falling asleep in classes often, but {{spoiler|the two teachers make it so that it seems he has failed as they cannot take on anymore students.}} This leads to bad, [[Driven to Suicide|bad]] things for Moritz. |
Melchior's insecure best friend whose dreams of women haunt him to the point that he is too afraid to fall asleep. He is disgusted by his new sexual feelings and his inability to control them. As this is the 19th century, he is terrified to even ''speak'' of such things aloud, and asks Melchior to [[MacGuffin|write down the knowledge he needs and to slip it into his satchel after Gym class.]] He passes his exams despite falling asleep in classes often, but {{spoiler|the two teachers make it so that it seems he has failed as they cannot take on anymore students.}} This leads to bad, [[Driven to Suicide|bad]] things for Moritz. |
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Many ways for Moritz. Firstly, he is {{spoiler|made to fail by Herr Knochenbruch an Fraulein Knuppeldick, then is kicked out of his home by his own father who beats him AND, if that wasn't enough, is then refused his thousand bucks to escape to America by Melchior's mother whom shrugs off his problems.}} |
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Many ways for Moritz. Firstly, he is {{spoiler|made to fail by Herr Knochenbruch an Fraulein Knuppeldick, then is kicked out of his home by his own father who beats him AND, if that wasn't enough, is then refused his thousand bucks to escape to America by Melchior's mother whom shrugs off his problems.}} |
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* [[Age |
* [[Age-Appropriate Angst]] |
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* [[Anime Hair]] |
* [[Anime Hair]] |
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* {{spoiler|[[Ate His Gun]]:}} The stage directions specifically call for this.<ref> [[Reality Subtext]]: A lot of people who kill themselves this way tend to have motives tied to sexuality.</ref> |
* {{spoiler|[[Ate His Gun]]:}} The stage directions specifically call for this.<ref> [[Reality Subtext]]: A lot of people who kill themselves this way tend to have motives tied to sexuality.</ref> |
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* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}} |
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}} |
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* {{spoiler|[[Ghost Song]]}}: He and Wendla appear to Melchior {{spoiler|as ghosts. They float out of their graves and everything.}} |
* {{spoiler|[[Ghost Song]]}}: He and Wendla appear to Melchior {{spoiler|as ghosts. They float out of their graves and everything.}} |
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* [[I Want Song]]: "The Bitch of Living" |
* [["I Want" Song]]: "The Bitch of Living" |
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* [[Love Triangle]]: Type 3 with Martha and Ilse. They both have feelings for him; he may or may not be oblivious, but his main struggle is trying {{spoiler|and failing}} to cope with his feelings about ''anyone.'' |
* [[Love Triangle]]: Type 3 with Martha and Ilse. They both have feelings for him; he may or may not be oblivious, but his main struggle is trying {{spoiler|and failing}} to cope with his feelings about ''anyone.'' |
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* [[Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality]]: Played for laughs at first, but it quickly slides into genuine [[Tear Jerker]]. |
* [[Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality]]: Played for laughs at first, but it quickly slides into genuine [[Tear Jerker]]. |
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* [[Reality Subtext]]: The first person he asks about his [[Erotic Dream|Erotic Dreams]]? His best friend Melchior. Even teens in ''current'' times are too afraid or embarrassed to ask their parents about sex, and considering [[Abusive Parents|Moritz's dad]] and [[Adults Are Useless|Wendla's mother]]... |
* [[Reality Subtext]]: The first person he asks about his [[Erotic Dream|Erotic Dreams]]? His best friend Melchior. Even teens in ''current'' times are too afraid or embarrassed to ask their parents about sex, and considering [[Abusive Parents|Moritz's dad]] and [[Adults Are Useless|Wendla's mother]]... |
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* [[Sanity Slippage Song]] / [[BSOD Song]]: "Don't Do Sadness." |
* [[Sanity Slippage Song]] / [[BSOD Song]]: "Don't Do Sadness." |
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{{quote|'' 'Cause you know, [[Blatant Lies|I don't do sadness--not even a little bit.]]''<br /> |
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''Just don't need it in my life--don't want any part of it.''<br /> |
''Just don't need it in my life--don't want any part of it.''<br /> |
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''[[Madness Mantra|I don't do sadness!]]''<br /> |
''[[Madness Mantra|I don't do sadness!]]''<br /> |
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''Hey, [[Foreshadowing|I've done my time, looking back on it all]]--man, it blows my mind.'' }} |
''Hey, [[Foreshadowing|I've done my time, looking back on it all]]--man, it blows my mind.'' }} |
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{{quote|''[[Blatant Lies|I don't do sadness, so been there.]]'' |
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''[[Heroic BSOD|Don't do sadness]]--[[Tear Jerker|just don't care...]]'' }} |
''[[Heroic BSOD|Don't do sadness]]--[[Tear Jerker|just don't care...]]'' }} |
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An innocent, friendly young woman. A childhood friend to the others and eventual love interest to Melchior. She opens the musical with her song "Mama Who Bore Me", searching for answers to the questions she has about [[ |
An innocent, friendly young woman. A childhood friend to the others and eventual love interest to Melchior. She opens the musical with her song "Mama Who Bore Me", searching for answers to the questions she has about [[If You Know What I Mean|life]]. |
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* [[Babies Make Everything Better]] |
* [[Babies Make Everything Better]] |
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* [[Ghost Song]]: "Those You've Known", and arguably to some shade "Whispering". The latter seems {{spoiler|as if Wendla is predicting the consequences of her actions and eventual death.}} |
* [[Ghost Song]]: "Those You've Known", and arguably to some shade "Whispering". The latter seems {{spoiler|as if Wendla is predicting the consequences of her actions and eventual death.}} |
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** "See the father bent in grief/The mother dressed in mourning/Sister crumbles, and the neighbours grumble/Preacher issues warning." Also coupled with [[Tear Jerker]]. |
** "See the father bent in grief/The mother dressed in mourning/Sister crumbles, and the neighbours grumble/Preacher issues warning." Also coupled with [[Tear Jerker]]. |
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* [[Pajama-Clad Hero|Pajama Clad Heroine]]: Although, because of her... [[Unusual Euphemism|anemia]]. It is what she appears in in "Those You've Known" as it is what she {{spoiler|probably died in.}} She changes into her normal clothes for "The Song of Purple Summer." |
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== Ilse Neumann == |
=== Ilse Neumann === |
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{{quote|''Played by Lauren Pritchard''}} |
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A childhood friend of the group. She is seen as a sign of something that could happen to Martha if she speaks out about what happens to her at home. Ilse is portrayed in "The Dark I Know Well" as an echo of what Martha is going through; Ilse was beaten and sexually abused by her father, and Martha is at the time of the song. Martha yearns to escape, and we never actually learn if she does. Ilse now lives in an artist's colony named Priapia with the Bohemians, but the girls think of this as no way to live for their fallen friend. {{spoiler|She offers Moritz to come home with her, implying they could be a lot more, yet he turns her down.}} She is symbolically seen as Moritz's last chance of redemption, and the "blue wind" as opposed to Moritz's rash and reckless summer wind he ponders on before {{spoiler|committing suicide}}. |
A childhood friend of the group. She is seen as a sign of something that could happen to Martha if she speaks out about what happens to her at home. Ilse is portrayed in "The Dark I Know Well" as an echo of what Martha is going through; Ilse was beaten and sexually abused by her father, and Martha is at the time of the song. Martha yearns to escape, and we never actually learn if she does. Ilse now lives in an artist's colony named Priapia with the Bohemians, but the girls think of this as no way to live for their fallen friend. {{spoiler|She offers Moritz to come home with her, implying they could be a lot more, yet he turns her down.}} She is symbolically seen as Moritz's last chance of redemption, and the "blue wind" as opposed to Moritz's rash and reckless summer wind he ponders on before {{spoiler|committing suicide}}. |
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* [[Mad Artist]]: The men she models for. One of them isn't that bad (chasing her around and dabbing her with paint), but the other one... see [[Innocence Lost]] above. |
* [[Mad Artist]]: The men she models for. One of them isn't that bad (chasing her around and dabbing her with paint), but the other one... see [[Innocence Lost]] above. |
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* [[Sexy Shirt Switch]]: For her {{spoiler|last}} scene with Moritz, she wears nothing but a man's white shirt. And then it gets sad when you remember she's a teenager. ...Who got held at gunpoint ''just that morning'', and most likely ran for the door as soon as she could. |
* [[Sexy Shirt Switch]]: For her {{spoiler|last}} scene with Moritz, she wears nothing but a man's white shirt. And then it gets sad when you remember she's a teenager. ...Who got held at gunpoint ''just that morning'', and most likely ran for the door as soon as she could. |
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== Secondary Characters == |
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=== Hanschen Rilow === |
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A very humorous, almost arrogant classmate of the boys. An effortless perfectionist who easily seduces Ernst. |
A very humorous, almost arrogant classmate of the boys. An effortless perfectionist who easily seduces Ernst. |
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* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Depending on the actor, Hanschen can vary from smug but good-hearted to a sleazy, horny seducer. |
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Depending on the actor, Hanschen can vary from smug but good-hearted to a sleazy, horny seducer. |
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* [[Bury Your Gays]]: Averted. He and Hanschen survive the play completely intact (if by virtue of disappearing from the action for a bit when Melchior's story comes back into focus) and the original play was strongly censored because it did ''not'' show the boys as criminals receiving inevitable punishment. (As well as, y'know, [[Rape |
* [[Bury Your Gays]]: Averted. He and Hanschen survive the play completely intact (if by virtue of disappearing from the action for a bit when Melchior's story comes back into focus) and the original play was strongly censored because it did ''not'' show the boys as criminals receiving inevitable punishment. (As well as, y'know, [[Rape as Drama|Wendla's rape]] and... the general plot.) |
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* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]] |
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== Ernst Robel == |
=== Ernst Robel === |
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{{quote|''Played by Gideon Glick''}} |
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A naive classmate of the boys who falls deeply for Hanschen's seduction. |
A naive classmate of the boys who falls deeply for Hanschen's seduction. |
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== Georg Zirschnitz == |
=== Georg Zirschnitz === |
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{{quote|''Played by Skylar Astin''}} |
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Another classmate who lusts after his older, busty piano teacher Fraulein Grossenbusterhaulter. |
Another classmate who lusts after his older, busty piano teacher Fraulein Grossenbusterhaulter. |
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== Otto Lammermeier == |
=== Otto Lammermeier === |
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{{quote|''Played by Brian Charles Johnson''}} |
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Another classmate. He dreamt of his mother, as Melchior humorously reveals to Moritz in an effort to help him relax. |
Another classmate. He dreamt of his mother, as Melchior humorously reveals to Moritz in an effort to help him relax. |
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== Thea == |
=== Thea === |
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{{quote|''Played by Remy Zaken''}} |
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One of Wendla's friends, a girl who tries to brush her feelings of sexual desire under the carpet to please adults. She tries to understand Martha's problems after she reveals them by saying that her Uncle Klaus says that "if you don't discipline a child, you don't love it." Martha simply replies with "Well, that must be." |
One of Wendla's friends, a girl who tries to brush her feelings of sexual desire under the carpet to please adults. She tries to understand Martha's problems after she reveals them by saying that her Uncle Klaus says that "if you don't discipline a child, you don't love it." Martha simply replies with "Well, that must be." |
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== Martha Bessel == |
=== Martha Bessel === |
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{{quote|''Played by Lilli Cooper''}} |
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One of Wendla's friends who is abused sexually by her father. She unwittingly reveals feelings for that "sad, soulful sleepyhead Moritz Stiefel" much to the dismay of her friends. She is not a major character, but shows her friends her bruises from her father. As songs in this musical are considered inner monologues, it is shown that she can't tell her friends the whole story. |
One of Wendla's friends who is abused sexually by her father. She unwittingly reveals feelings for that "sad, soulful sleepyhead Moritz Stiefel" much to the dismay of her friends. She is not a major character, but shows her friends her bruises from her father. As songs in this musical are considered inner monologues, it is shown that she can't tell her friends the whole story. |
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** Amped up from the stage play in a [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|very]] [[Tear Jerker|chilling]] way. |
** Amped up from the stage play in a [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|very]] [[Tear Jerker|chilling]] way. |
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* [[Innocence Lost]] |
* [[Innocence Lost]] |
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* [[Lonely Together]]: She and Ilse are a platonic version; "The Dark I Know Well" ends on the two of them alone on stage, clinging to each other until [[Last |
* [[Lonely Together]]: She and Ilse are a platonic version; "The Dark I Know Well" ends on the two of them alone on stage, clinging to each other until [[Last-Note Nightmare|the lights black out]]. |
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* [[Love Triangle]]: Type 3 with Moritz and Ilse. |
* [[Love Triangle]]: Type 3 with Moritz and Ilse. |
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One of Wendla's friends, who cannot wrap her head around Martha's trials. |
One of Wendla's friends, who cannot wrap her head around Martha's trials. |
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Latest revision as of 22:13, 19 July 2021
Characters from Spring Awakening include:
Main Characters
Melchior Gabor
Played by Jonathan Groff |
Headstrong, handsome, and charismatic. He knows much more than the others because of what he reads in books. Melchior is the best friend to Moritz, and often finds himself getting into trouble for standing up for his nervous wreck of a friend. He is also a love interest to Wendla. See Unwanted Harem for his other admirers (pretty much the whole teenage female cast, bar Martha.)
- Anti-Hero
- All Girls Want Bad Boys
- Big No: On discovering Wendla's freshly-dug grave. Often repeated by the Groff, but other Melchiors just went for one.
- Bishonen
- Grief Song: Sings "Left Behind" at Moritz's funeral to the father that kicked him out when he most needed it. Melchior is pissed
Moritz Stiefel
Played by John Gallagher Jr. |
Melchior's insecure best friend whose dreams of women haunt him to the point that he is too afraid to fall asleep. He is disgusted by his new sexual feelings and his inability to control them. As this is the 19th century, he is terrified to even speak of such things aloud, and asks Melchior to write down the knowledge he needs and to slip it into his satchel after Gym class. He passes his exams despite falling asleep in classes often, but the two teachers make it so that it seems he has failed as they cannot take on anymore students. This leads to bad, bad things for Moritz.
- Adults Are Useless: Many ways for Moritz. Firstly, he is made to fail by Herr Knochenbruch an Fraulein Knuppeldick, then is kicked out of his home by his own father who beats him AND, if that wasn't enough, is then refused his thousand bucks to escape to America by Melchior's mother whom shrugs off his problems.
- Age-Appropriate Angst
- Anime Hair
- Ate His Gun: The stage directions specifically call for this.[1]
- Break the Cutie
- Driven to Suicide
- Ghost Song: He and Wendla appear to Melchior as ghosts. They float out of their graves and everything.
- "I Want" Song: "The Bitch of Living"
- Love Triangle: Type 3 with Martha and Ilse. They both have feelings for him; he may or may not be oblivious, but his main struggle is trying and failing to cope with his feelings about anyone.
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Played for laughs at first, but it quickly slides into genuine Tear Jerker.
- Reality Subtext: The first person he asks about his Erotic Dreams? His best friend Melchior. Even teens in current times are too afraid or embarrassed to ask their parents about sex, and considering Moritz's dad and Wendla's mother...
- Sanity Slippage Song / BSOD Song: "Don't Do Sadness."
'Cause you know, I don't do sadness--not even a little bit. |
Wendla Bergman
Played by Lea Michele |
An innocent, friendly young woman. A childhood friend to the others and eventual love interest to Melchior. She opens the musical with her song "Mama Who Bore Me", searching for answers to the questions she has about life.
- Babies Make Everything Better
- Break the Cutie
- Dr. Feelgood: "Who lives in this house, Mama?"
- Ghost Song: "Those You've Known", and arguably to some shade "Whispering". The latter seems as if Wendla is predicting the consequences of her actions and eventual death.
- "See the father bent in grief/The mother dressed in mourning/Sister crumbles, and the neighbours grumble/Preacher issues warning." Also coupled with Tear Jerker.
- Pajama Clad Heroine: Although, because of her... anemia. It is what she appears in in "Those You've Known" as it is what she probably died in. She changes into her normal clothes for "The Song of Purple Summer."
Ilse Neumann
Played by Lauren Pritchard |
A childhood friend of the group. She is seen as a sign of something that could happen to Martha if she speaks out about what happens to her at home. Ilse is portrayed in "The Dark I Know Well" as an echo of what Martha is going through; Ilse was beaten and sexually abused by her father, and Martha is at the time of the song. Martha yearns to escape, and we never actually learn if she does. Ilse now lives in an artist's colony named Priapia with the Bohemians, but the girls think of this as no way to live for their fallen friend. She offers Moritz to come home with her, implying they could be a lot more, yet he turns her down. She is symbolically seen as Moritz's last chance of redemption, and the "blue wind" as opposed to Moritz's rash and reckless summer wind he ponders on before committing suicide.
- Abusive Parents: "Ilse! Storytime!"
- Childhood Friend Romance: And how.
- Counterpoint Duet: "Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind"
- Innocence Lost: "Until this morning, when he woke me with a gun, set against my breast. He said: 'One twitch and it's the end.' Really gave me the goose bumps."
- Lonely Together: "The Dark I Know Well" for her and Martha.
- Love Triangle: Type 3 with Martha and Moritz. She and Martha have feelings for Moritz, who can't quite handle his feelings for anyone.
- MacGuffin: The flowers she carries are, you guessed it, purple summer flowers--the name of the song of redemption and new life that Ilse leads the whole cast in at the end of the show. But before this and when Moritz rejects her, she runs back to Priapia. These flowers become the flowers the teenagers place on Moritz's open casket one by one, and the actress playing Ilse must drop them in an exact place as she runs off.
- Mad Artist: The men she models for. One of them isn't that bad (chasing her around and dabbing her with paint), but the other one... see Innocence Lost above.
- Sexy Shirt Switch: For her last scene with Moritz, she wears nothing but a man's white shirt. And then it gets sad when you remember she's a teenager. ...Who got held at gunpoint just that morning, and most likely ran for the door as soon as she could.
Secondary Characters
Hanschen Rilow
Played by Jonathan B. Wright |
A very humorous, almost arrogant classmate of the boys. An effortless perfectionist who easily seduces Ernst.
- Blond Guys Are Evil: Depending on the actor, Hanschen can vary from smug but good-hearted to a sleazy, horny seducer.
- Bury Your Gays: Averted. He and Hanschen survive the play completely intact (if by virtue of disappearing from the action for a bit when Melchior's story comes back into focus) and the original play was strongly censored because it did not show the boys as criminals receiving inevitable punishment. (As well as, y'know, Wendla's rape and... the general plot.)
- A Date with Rosie Palms
Ernst Robel
Played by Gideon Glick |
A naive classmate of the boys who falls deeply for Hanschen's seduction.
Georg Zirschnitz
Played by Skylar Astin |
Another classmate who lusts after his older, busty piano teacher Fraulein Grossenbusterhaulter.
Otto Lammermeier
Played by Brian Charles Johnson |
Another classmate. He dreamt of his mother, as Melchior humorously reveals to Moritz in an effort to help him relax.
Thea
Played by Remy Zaken |
One of Wendla's friends, a girl who tries to brush her feelings of sexual desire under the carpet to please adults. She tries to understand Martha's problems after she reveals them by saying that her Uncle Klaus says that "if you don't discipline a child, you don't love it." Martha simply replies with "Well, that must be."
Martha Bessel
Played by Lilli Cooper |
One of Wendla's friends who is abused sexually by her father. She unwittingly reveals feelings for that "sad, soulful sleepyhead Moritz Stiefel" much to the dismay of her friends. She is not a major character, but shows her friends her bruises from her father. As songs in this musical are considered inner monologues, it is shown that she can't tell her friends the whole story.
- Abusive Parents: "You say 'Time for bed now, child"/Mom just smiles that smile.../Just like she never saw me/Just like she never saw me..."
- Innocence Lost
- Lonely Together: She and Ilse are a platonic version; "The Dark I Know Well" ends on the two of them alone on stage, clinging to each other until the lights black out.
- Love Triangle: Type 3 with Moritz and Ilse.
Anna Reiniger
Played by Phoebe Strole |
One of Wendla's friends, who cannot wrap her head around Martha's trials.
- Back to Spring Awakening
- ↑ Reality Subtext: A lot of people who kill themselves this way tend to have motives tied to sexuality.