JenaVeeve's blog =P: 2010

The best Freakin book/musical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I READ THE BOOK AND IT IS FAN FREAKIN TASTIC!!!!!!!! And I Have the cd and that is just GRRRRRREAT! And Lea Michelle is in it for all you Glee fans!!!!

Cast:

Lea Michelle - 21 from New York Plays Wendla the star crossed lover of Melchoir

Jonathan Groff (eep!) - 21 from Lancaster Pennsylvania Plays Melchoir the male lead

Skylar Astin - 19 from Rockland County Plays Georg who is crushed on his busty piano teacher

Lauren Pritchard - 19 from Jackson Tennessee Plays Isle the free spirit of the show

John Gallager Jr. - 22 from Wilmington Delaware Plays Moritz whose parents truly and tragically don't understand

Brian Charles Johnson - 22 from Buffalo New York Plays Otto who has a wet dream about his mom

Remy Zaken - 17 from Weston Connecticut Plays Thea in Pig Tails :)

Lilli Cooper - 16 Plays Martha who has a secret and father abuses her sexually......

Gideon Glick- 18 from Philadelphia Pennsylvania Plays Ernst who's awakening is of the gay variety

Jonathan B. Wright - 20 from Lavonia Detroit Plays Hanschen who assits Ernst in his awakening (aka his lover)

Phoebe Strole - 24 from Fort Worth Texas Plays Anna a good friend

Synopsis:

It’s Germany, 1891. A world where the grown-ups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body, and wonders aloud where babies come from, till Mama tells her to shut it, and put on a proper dress. Elsewhere, the brilliant and fearless young Melchior interrupts a mind-numbing Latin drill to defend his buddy Moritz – a boy so traumatized by puberty he can’t concentrate on anything. Not that the Headmaster cares. He strikes them both and tells them to turn in their lesson. One afternoon – in a private place in the woods – Melchior and Wendla meet by accident, and soon find within themselves a desire unlike anything they’ve ever felt. As they fumble their way into one another’s arms, Moritz flounders and soon fails out of school. When even his one adult friend, Melchior’s mother, ignores his plea for help, he is left so distraught he can’t hear the promise of life offered by his outcast friend Ilse. Naturally, the Headmasters waste no time in pinning the “crime” of Moritz’s suicide on Melchior and expel him. And soon Mama learns her little Wendla is pregnant. Now the young lovers must struggle against all odds to build a world together for their child.