Lea Michele helped flip the clock again ― musically, a minimum of ― almost 16 years when she took the stage on the 2022 Tony Awards Sunday evening.
The actor and her longtime pal Jonathan Groff reunited with the forged of Broadway’s “Spring Awakening” for a haunting efficiency of the track “Contact Me.”
When it debuted on Broadway in 2006, “Spring Awakening” broke floor as an exploration of minor sexuality, psychological well being and sexual assault. The present obtained eight Tony Awards.
Although Groff and Michele have been the present’s breakout stars, the musical additionally launched the careers of actors John Gallagher Jr. (who gained a Tony for his position), Skylar Astin and Gideon Glick. All have been current at Sunday’s ceremony.
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The forged’s efficiency on the Tony Awards was the fruits of a virtually yearlong fifteenth anniversary celebration. Final yr, the forged got here collectively for a one-night-only reunion live performance, staged at New York’s Imperial Theater below strict COVID-19 protocols. The manufacturing was chronicled within the HBO documentary “Spring Awakening: These You’ve Recognized,” which was launched final month.
Talking to Leisure Tonight forward of her Tonys look, Michele stated the expertise of reuniting with the “Spring Awakening” forged was “simply wild,” notably given the lingering challenges of the pandemic.
“We managed to get the whole authentic forged collectively,” she stated. “We managed to get by means of the hurdles of COVID and the whole lot and reunite and are available collectively. And we’re simply so honored to be again.”
Requested about what he’d inform the youthful model of himself and his co-stars concerning the success of “Spring Awakening,” Groff stated, “I'd inform them to take it in.”
“You already know what, we did take it in again then, we actually did,” he added. “So lots of the adults within the theater neighborhood and Michael Mayer, our director, they have been maintaining us very grounded and within the second. If I have been to expertise all of it once more, I'd simply take it in another time.”
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