Jonathan Groff says his 'Sprg Awakeng' character gave him the strength to e out as gay

BLOGGG BROADWAY: "13"'S FAGMOS AND "SPRG AWAKENG'S" GAY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY MICHAEL PORTANTIEREOCTOBER 15, 2008/3:45 PMBY MICHAEL PORTANTIEREOCTOBER 15, 2008 / 3:45 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"BLOGGG BROADWAY: \"13\"'S FAGMOS AND \"SPRG AWAKENG'S\" GAY SCENE","DATEPUBLISHED":"2008-10-15T19:45:15.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2008-10-15T19:45:15.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL PORTANTIERE","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A SCENE OM 13 (PHOTO CRED: JOAN MARC) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EDOR'S NOTE: STARTG TODAY, OUR THEATER CRIC MICHAEL PORTANTIERE WILL BE BLOGGG REGULARLY ABOUT BROADWAY AND OFF-BROADWAY SHOWS AS WELL AS OTHER EMS OF THEATRIL TERT. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BROADWAY IS ONE OF THE LAST PLAC WHERE YOU’D EXPECT TO FD ANY SORT OF HOMOPHOBIA. BUT SCE THE THEATER ALS WH EVERY NCEIVABLE SORT OF LIFE SUATN, AND SCE PRODUCERS AND ARTISTS N’T NTROL DIENCE REACTN TO GAY (OR SUPPOSEDLY GAY) CHARACTERS AND SUBJECT MATTER, THERE ARE OCSNS WHEN THE CLN OF CERTA WORDS AND SUATNS SHOWS MAK SOME PEOPLE VERY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF A SHOW PICTS HOMOPHOBIC BEHAVR BY CHARACTERS WHO AREN’T CLEARLY CHARACTERIZED AS VILLAS, IS THAT WRONG? IN A RELATED QUTN: IS ACCEPTABLE TO PRENT “IC” SCEN OF GAY TIMACY THAT RULT GASPS, GROANS, AND/OR NERVO LGHTER OM THE DIENCE, PECIALLY WHEN YOUNG PERFORMERS AND DIENC ARE VOLVED?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE QUTNS ARE BEGGED BY TWO MILS NOW ON BROADWAY, 13 AND SPRG AWAKENG. THE FORMER JT OPENED, WHEREAS THE LATTER HAS BEEN PLAYG AT THE EUGENE O’NEILL THEATRE SCE DECEMBER 2006, FOLLOWG S IAL OFF-BROADWAY N AT THE ATLANTIC THEATRE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GRAHAM PHILLIPS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PHOTO CRED: JOAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A SOURCE OF NTROVERSY 13 DURG PREVIEWS WAS THE LORFUL SULT “FAGMO,” WHICH HAD BEEN ED BY THE POPULAR JOCK BRETT (ERIC M. NELSEN) AND HIS MNS TO RI THE CENTRAL CHARACTER, EVAN (GRAHAM PHILLIPS). A BO OF “FAG” AND “HOMO,” THE WORD WAS CUT BEFORE THE SHOW OPENED. APPARENTLY, SOME DIENCE MEMBERS – AS WELL AS A FEW THEATER DTRY PEOPLE – WERE UPSET BY S E BEE PERPETUAT THE IA THAT THE MOST HURTFUL THG KIDS N DO IS IMPLY THAT ONE OF THEIR NUMBER IS GAY. (AMONG KIDS, “FAG” DON’T ALWAYS MEAN “HOMOSEXUAL”; OFTEN MEANS “LAME” OR “TOTALLY UNOL.” BUT ’S NEVER A PLIMENT.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROBERT HORN, -THOR OF 13, TOLD ME RECENTLY THAT HE MA UP “FAGMO,” THOUGH CERTALY SOUNDS LIKE AN THENTIC MIDDLE-SCHOOL SULT. HORN NFIRMED THAT A LOT OF MATERIAL WAS CUT OM THE SHOW DURG PREVIEWS TO BRG DOWN TO S CURRENT 90-MUTE LENGTH; HE SAID HE HAD RECEIVED A LIST OF SUGGTNS OF CUTS AND CHANG OM VAR PEOPLE VOLVED THE PRODUCTN, BUT HE SISTS WAS HIS OWN CISN TO EXCISE “FAGMO” THIS LED TO AN TERTG DISCSN OF HOMOPHOBIA AND PERCEIVED HOMOPHOBIA. I GOT THE IMPRSN THAT, WHEN ALL WAS SAID AND DONE, HORN DIDN’T FEEL SENTIAL TO KEEP THE WORD IF WAS GOG TO UPSET PEOPLE WHO WOULD OTHERWISE LOVE THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THERE’S ANOTHER MOMENT 13 THAT ULD HAVE BEEN VERY DICEY, BUT AS FAR AS I’M NCERNED, DISFORT HAS BEEN AVOID THROUGH SKILLFUL DIRECTN: TWO OF THE BOYS END UP AT THE MOVI WH THE SAME GIRL, WHO’S STG BETWEEN THEM. WHEN THE GUYS CLOSE THEIR EY AND LEAN TO TONGUE-KISS THE YOUNG LADY, SHE MOV AWAY AT THE LAST MOMENT, AND THEY END UP MAKG OUT WH EACH OTHER. THIS IS STAGED SUCH A BRILLIANTLY HILAR WAY, WH SLOW-MOTN AND STROBE LIGHTG, THAT EVEN THE MOST VOCIFERO LGHTER AND SHOUTS OM THE DIENCE SEEM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GION GLICK AND JONATHAN B. WRIGHT THE ORIGAL BROADWAY ST OF SPRG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BY WAY OF PARISON, LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE “GAY SCENE” SPRG AWAKENG, THE NTEMPORARY ROCK MIL BASED ON FRANK WEKD’S LATE-19TH CENTURY DRAMA ABOUT CLUELS TEENAGERS LT. IN THE WEKD PLAY, THERE’S A SWEET, FUNNY, MOVG SCENE WHICH THE YOUNG STUNTS HANSCHEN AND ERNST NNECT EMOTNALLY AND PHYSILLY. WHILE STEVEN SATER’S ADAPTATN OF THIS SCENE FOR THE MIL HEWS CLOSELY TO THE ORIGAL TERMS OF THE TEXT, THE ONSTAGE ENUNTER WAS DIRECTED BY MICHAEL MAYER TO BE PLAYED SUCH AN OVER-THE-TOP EDIC WAY THAT HAS BEE A BROADLY IC SCTN SCENE, MARKED BY OLLY LCULATED MOV ON THE PART OF THE SCER AND POP-EYED SKTISHNS OM HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE MAY NEVER KNOW FOR SURE WHY THIS SCENE HAS BEEN HANDLED THIS MANNER, BUT I HAVE A GUS. ALTHOUGH I DON’T REMEMBER ANY GASPG, GROANG, OR APPROPRIATE LGHS WHEN I SAW SPRG AWAKENG AT A CRICS’ PERFORMANCE EARLY ON AT THE ATLANTIC, I IMAGE THAT THE MOMENT QUTN BEGAN TO ELIC UNWANTED VOL REACTNS WHEN PERFORMED BEFORE GENERAL DIENC — CLUDG YOUNG PEOPLE — LATER THE OFF-BROADWAY N AND DURG BROADWAY PREVIEWS. MAYER PROBABLY CID TO RAMP UP THE EDY OF THE SCENE AS A PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE: YOU KNOW, “IF WE PLAY THIS SUCH A WAY THAT ’S OBV WE WANT THE DIENCE TO LGH, WON’T BE JARRG WHEN THEY DO.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE N UNRSTAND THE IMPULSE, BUT BRGS BACK TO THE QUTNS RAISED AT THE TOP OF THIS MENTARY. I’D LOVE TO HEAR EVERYONE’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
SPRG AWAKENG (ACT 2)FRANK WEKDTRACK 2 ON SPRG AWAKENG FEATURGFRANCIS ZIEGLER (TRANSLATOR)1 VIEWER17 CONTRIBUTORSSPRG AWAKENG (ACT 2) LYRICSSCENE FIRST._EVENG MELCHR'S STUDY. THE WDOW IS OPEN, A LAMP BURNS ONTHE TABLE.--MELCHR AND MORZ ON THE DIVAN._MORITZ.NOW I'M QUE GAY AGA, ONLY A LTLE B EXCED.----BUT DURG THEGREEK LSON I SLEPT LIKE THE BOTTED POLYPHEM. I'M ASTONISHEDTHAT THE PRONUNCIATN OF THE ANCIENT TONGUE DON'T GIVE ME THEEARACHE.----TO-DAY I WAS WH A HAIR OF BEG LATE----MY FIRSTTHOUGHT ON WAKG WAS OF THE VERBS μι----HIMMEL--HERRGOTT--TFEL--DONNERWETTER, DURG BREAKFAST AND ALL ALONG THE ROAD I NJUGATNTIL I SAW GREEN.----I MT HAVE POPPED OFF TO SLEEP SHORTLY AFTERTHREE. MY PEN MA A BLOT THE BOOK. THE LAMP WAS SMOKG WHENMATHIL WOKE ME; THE BLACKBIRDS THE ELR BH UNR THE WDOWWERE CHIRPG SO HAPPILY----AND I FELT SO EXPRSIBLY MELANCHOLY. IPUT ON MY LLAR AND PASSED THE BSH THROUGH MY HAIR.----ONE FEELS WHEN ONE IMPOS UPON NATURE.MELCHIOR.MAY I ROLL YOU A CIGARETTE?MORITZ.THANKS, I DON'T SMOKE.----IF ONLY KEEPS ON THIS WAY! I WILL WORKAND WORK UNTIL MY EY FALL OUT OF MY HEAD.----ERNT RöBEL HASFAILED THREE TIM SCE VATN; THREE TIM GREEK, TWICE WHKNOCHENBCH; THE LAST TIME THE HISTORY OF LERATURE. I HAVE BEENFIRST FIVE TIM THIS LAMENTABLE NFLICT, AND OM TO-DAY DONOT BOTHER ME!----RöBEL WILL NOT SHOOT HIMSELF. RöBEL HAS NO PARENTSWHO SACRIFICE EVERYTHG FOR HIM. IF HE WANTS HE N BEE ASOLDIER, A WBOY OR A SAILOR. IF I FAIL, MY FATHER WILL FEEL THEBLOW AND MAMMA WILL LAND THE MADHOE. ONE N'T LIVE THROUGH ATHG LIKE THAT!----BEFORE THE EXAMATN I BEGGED GOD TO GIVE MENSUMPTN THAT THE CUP MIGHT PASS ME BY UNTOUCHED. HE PASSED ME BY,THOUGH TO-DAY HIS REOLE SH THE DISTANCE, SO THAT I DARE NOTLIFT MY EY BY NIGHT OR DAY.----NOW THAT I HAVE GRASPED THE BAR ISHALL SWG UP ON . THE NATURAL NSEQUENCE WILL BE THAT I SHALLBREAK MY NECK IF I FALL.MELCHIOR.LIFE IS A WORTHLS MONPLACE. IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A BAD IA IFI HAD HANGED MYSELF THE CRADLE.----WHY DON'T MAMMA E WH THETEA!MORITZ.YOUR TEA WILL DO ME GOOD, MELCHR!----I'M SHIVERG. I FEEL SOSTRANGELY SPIRUALIZED. TOUCH ME ONCE, PLEASE. I SEE,--I HEAR,--IFEEL, MUCH MORE ACUTELY----AND YET EVERYTHG SEEMS LIKE ADREAM----OH, SO HARMON.----HOW STILL THE GARN STRETCH OUTTHERE THE MOONLIGHT, SO STILL, SO EP, AS IF EXTEND TOETERNY. FROM OUT THE BH STEP FABLE FIGUR THAT SLIP AWAY BREATHLS OFFICNS THROUGH THE CLEARGS AND THEN VANISH THE TWILIGHT. IT SEEMS TO ME AS IF A UNSEL WERE TO BE HELD UNRTHE CHTNUT TREE.----SHALL WE GO DOWN THERE, MELCHR?MELCHIOR.LET'S WA UNTIL WE HAVE DNK OUR TEA.MORITZ.THE LEAV WHISPER SO BILY.----IT'S JT AS IF I HEARD MY ADGRANDMOTHER TELLG ME THE STORY OF THE “QUEEN WHOUT A HEAD.” THEREWAS ONCE A WONRFULLY BETIFUL QUEEN, BETIFUL AS THE SUN, MOREBETIFUL THAN ALL THE MAINS THE UNTRY. ONLY, UNFORTUNATELY,SHE ME TO THE WORLD WHOUT A HEAD. SHE ULD NOT EAT, NOT DRK,NOT KISS. SHE ULD ONLY MUNITE WH HER URTIERS BY G HERSOFT LTLE HAND. WH HER DATY FEET SHE STAMPED CLARATNS OFWAR AND ORRS FOR EXECUTNS. THEN, ONE DAY, SHE WAS BIEGED BY AKG, WHO, BY CHANCE, HAD TWO HEADS, WHICH, YEAR AND YEAR OUT,DISPUTED WH ONE ANOTHER SO VLENTLY THAT NEHER ULD GET A WORD EDGEWISE. THE COURT CONJURER--CHIEF TOOK OFF THE SMALLT OFTHE HEADS AND SET UPON THE QUEEN'S BODY. AND, BEHOLD, BEMEHER EXTRAORDARILY WELL! THEREFORE, THE KG AND THE QUEEN WEREMARRIED, AND THE TWO HEADS DISPUTED NO LONGER, BUT KISSED EACH OTHEPON THE BROW, THE CHEEKS AND THE MOUTH, AND LIVED THEREAFTER THROUGHLONG, LONG YEARS OF JOY AND PEACE.----DELECTABLE NONSENSE! SCEVATN I N'T GET THE HEADLS QUEEN OUT OF MY MD. WHEN I SEE APRETTY GIRL, I SEE HER WHOUT A HEAD----AND THEN PRENTLY, I,MYSELF APPEAR TO BE THE HEADLS QUEEN.----IT IS POSSIBLE THATSOMEONE MAY BE SET OVER ME YET.(_FR GABOR WH THE STEAMG TEA, WHICH SHE SETS BEFOREMELCHR AND MORZ ON THE TABLE._)FRAU GABOR.HERE, CHILDREN, HERE'S A MOUTHFUL FOR YOU. GOOD-EVENG, HERRSTIEFEL, HOW ARE YOU?MORITZ.THANK YOU, FR GABOR.----I'M WATCHG THE DANCE DOWN THERE.FRAU GABOR.BUT YOU DON'T LOOK VERY GOOD----DON'T YOU FEEL WELL?MORITZ.IT'S NOT WORTH MENTNG. I WENT TO BED SOMEWHAT TOO LATE LASTNIGHT.MELCHIOR.ONLY THK, HE WORKED ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT.FRAU GABOR.YOU SHOULDN'T DO SUCH THGS, HERR STIEFEL. YOU OUGHT TO TAKE RE OFYOURSELF. THK OF YOUR HEALTH. DON'T SET YOUR SCHOOL ABOVE YOURHEALTH. TAKE PLENTY OF WALKS THE H AIR. AT YOUR AGE, THAT ISMORE IMPORTANT THAN A RRECT E OF MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN.MORITZ.I WILL GO WALKG. YOU ARE RIGHT. ONE N BE DTR WHILE ONE ISTAKG A WALK. WHY DIDN'T I THK OF THAT MYSELF!----THE WRTEN WORKI SHALL STILL HAVE TO DO AT HOME.MELCHIOR.YOU N DO YOUR WRG HERE; THAT WILL MAKE EASIER FOR BOTH OF.----YOU KNOW, MAMMA, THAT MAX VON TRENK HAS BEEN DOWN WH BRAFEVER!----TO-DAY AT NOON HANS RILOW ME OM VON TRENK'S ATHBED TOANNOUNCE TO RECTOR SONNENSTICH THAT VON TRENK HAD JT DIED HISPRENCE. “INED?” SAID SONNENSTICH, “HAVEN'T YOU TWO HOURS OMLAST WEEK TO MAKE UP? HERE IS THE BEADLE'S REPORT. SEE THAT THEMATTER IS CLEARED UP ONCE FOR ALL! THE WHOLE CLASS WILL ATTEND THEBURIAL.”----HANS WAS STCK DUMB.FRAU GABOR.WHAT BOOK IS THAT YOU HAVE, MELCHR?MELCHIOR.“FST.”FRAU GABOR.HAVE YOU READ YET?MELCHIOR.NOT TO THE END.MORITZ.WE'RE JT AT THE WALPURGISNACHT.FRAU GABOR.IF I WERE YOU I SHOULD HAVE WAED FOR ONE OR TWO YEARS.MELCHIOR.I KNOW OF NO BOOK, MAMMA, WHICH I HAVE FOUND SO MUCH BETY. WHYSHOULDN'T I READ ?FRAU GABOR.BEE YOU N'T UNRSTAND .MELCHIOR.YOU N'T KNOW THAT, MAMMA. I FEEL VERY WELL THAT I AM NOT YET ABLETO GRASP THE WORK S ENTIRETY----MORITZ.WE ALWAYS READ TOGETHER; THAT HELPS OUR UNRSTANDG WONRFULLY.FRAU GABOR.YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH, MELCHR, TO BE ABLE TO KNOW WHAT IS GOOD ANDWHAT IS BAD FOR YOU. DO WHAT YOU THK BT FOR YOURSELF. I SHOULD BETHE FIRST TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR RIGHT THIS RPECT, BEE YOU HAVENEVER GIVEN ME A REASON TO HAVE TO NY YOU ANYTHG. I ONLY WANT TOWARN YOU THAT EVEN THE BT N DO ONE HARM WHEN ONE ISN'T RIPEENOUGH YEARS TO RECEIVE PROPERLY.----I WOULD RATHER PUT MYTST YOU THAN NVENTNAL TNAL METHODS.----IF YOU NEEDANYTHG, CHILDREN, YOU, MELCHR, E UP AND LL ME. I SHALL BE MY BEDROOM.(_EX._)MORITZ.YOUR MAMMA MEANS THE STORY OF GRETCHEN.MELCHIOR.WEREN'T WE DISCSG JT A MOMENT AGO!MORITZ.FST HIMSELF NNOT HAVE SERTED HER LD BLOOD!MELCHIOR.THE MASTERPIECE DO NOT END WH THIS FAMO ACTN!----FSTMIGHT HAVE PROMISED THE MAIN MARRIAGE, HE MIGHT HAVE FORSAKEN HERAFTERWARDS, BUT MY EY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN NOT A HAIR LS WORTHYOF PUNISHMENT. GRETCHEN MIGHT HAVE DIED OF A BROKEN HEART FOR ALL IRE.----ONE SE HOW THIS ATTRACTS THE EY NTUALLY; ONE MIGHTTHK THAT THE WHOLE WORLD TURNED ON SEX![2]MORITZ.TO BE ANK WH YOU, MELCHR, I HAVE ALMOST THE SAME FEELG SCEI READ YOUR EXPLANATN.----IT FELL AT MY FEET DURG THE FIRSTVATN DAYS. I WAS STARTLED. I FASTENED THE DOOR AND FLEW THROUGHTHE FLAMG L AS A IGHTENED OWL FLI THROUGH A BURNGWOOD----I BELIEVE I READ MOST OF WH MY EY SHUT. YOUREXPLANATN BROUGHT UP A HOST OF DIM RELLECTNS, WHICH AFFECTED MEAS A SONG OF HIS CHILDHOOD AFFECTS A MAN ON HIS ATHBED WHEN HEARDOM THE LIPS OF ANOTHER. I FELT THE MOST VEHEMENT PY OVER WHAT YOUWROTE ABOUT MAINS. I SHALL NEVER LOSE THAT SENSATN. BELIEVE ME,MELCHR, TO SUFFER A WRONG IS SWEETER THAN TO DO A WRONG. TO BEOVERE BY SUCH A SWEET WRONG AND STILL BE BLAMELS SEEMS TO ME THEFULLNS OF EARTHLY BLISS.MELCHIOR.I DON'T WANT MY BLISS AS ALMS!MORITZ.BUT WHY NOT?MELCHIOR.I DON'T WANT ANYTHG FOR WHICH I DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT!MORITZ.IS ENJOYABLE THEN, MELCHR?----THE MAIN'S ENJOYMENT IS AS THATOF THE HOLY GODS. THE MAIN NTROLS HERSELF, THANKS TO HERSELF-NIAL. SHE KEEPS HERSELF EE OM EVERY BTERNS UNTIL THELAST MOMENT, ORR THAT SHE MAY SEE THE HEAVENS OPEN OVER HER AN STANT. THE MAIN FEARS HELL EVEN AT THE MOMENT THAT SHEPERCEIV A BLOOMG PARADISE. HER FEELG IS AS PURE AS A MOUNTASPRG. THE MAIN HOLDS A CUP OVER WHICH NO EARTHLY BREATH HAS BLOWNAS YET; A NECTAR CHALICE, THE NTENTS OF WHICH IS SPILLED WHEN FLAM AND FLAR.----THE ENJOYMENT THAT THE MAN FDS THAT, ITHK, IS SIPID AND FLAT.MELCHIOR.YOU N THK WHAT YOU LIKE ABOUT , BUT KEEP YOUR THOUGHTS TOYOURSELF----I DON'T LIKE TO THK ABOUT .SCENE SECOND._A DWELLG ROOM._FRAU BERGMANN.(_ENTERS BY THE CENTER DOOR. HER FACE IS BEAMG. SHE IS WHOUT AHAT, WEARS A MANTILLA ON HER HEAD AND HAS A BASKET ON HER ARM._)WENDLA! WENDLA!WENDLA.(_APPEARS PETTIATS AND RSET THE DOORWAY TO THE RIGHT._)WHAT'S THE MATTER, MOTHER?FRAU BERGMANN.YOU ARE UP ALREADY, CHILD? NOW, THAT IS NICE OF YOU!WENDLA.YOU HAVE BEEN OUT ALREADY?FRAU BERGMANN.GET DRSED QUICKLY!----YOU MT GO DOWN TO INA'S AT ONCE. YOU MTTAKE HER THIS BASKET!WENDLA.(_DRSG HERSELF DURG THE FOLLOWG NVERSATN._)YOU HAVE BEEN TO INA'S?--HOW IS INA?--IS SHE EVER GOG TO GETBETTER?FRAU BERGMANN.ONLY THK, WENDLA, LAST NIGHT THE STORK PAID HER A VIS AND BROUGHTHER A LTLE BABY BOY!WENDLA.A LTLE BOY?----A LTLE BOY!----OH, THAT'S LOVELY!----THAT'S THEE OF THAT TED FLUENZA!FRAU BERGMANN.A FE LTLE BOY!WENDLA.I MT SEE HIM, MOTHER. THAT MAK ME AN NT FOR THE THIRDTIME----NT TO A LTLE GIRL AND TWO LTLE BOYS!FRAU BERGMANN.AND WHAT LTLE BOYS!----IT ALWAYS HAPPENS THAT WAY WHEN ONE LIV SONEAR THE CHURCH ROOF!----TO-MORROW WILL BE JT TWO YEARS SCE SHEWENT UP THE STEPS HER MULL GOWN.WENDLA.WERE YOU THERE WHEN HE BROUGHT HIM?FRAU BERGMANN.HE HAD JT FLOWN AWAY AGA.----WON'T YOU PUT ON A ROSE?WENDLA.WHY ULDN'T YOU HAVE BEEN A LTLE EARLIER, MOTHER?FRAU BERGMANN.I ALMOST BELIEVE HE BROUGHT YOU SOMETHG, TOO----A BREASTP ORSOMETHG.WENDLA.IT'S REALLY A SHAME!FRAU BERGMANN.BUT, I TELL YOU, HE BROUGHT YOU A BREASTP!WENDLA.I HAVE BREASTPS ENOUGH----FRAU BERGMANN.THEN BE HAPPY, CHILD. WHAT DO YOU WANT BIS?WENDLA.I WOULD HAVE LIKED SO MUCH TO HAVE KNOWN WHETHER HE FLEW THROUGH THEWDOW OR DOWN THE CHIMNEY.FRAU BERGMANN.YOU MT ASK INA. HA! YOU MT ASK INA THAT, AR HEART! INA WILLTELL YOU THAT FAST ENOUGH. INA TALKED WH HIM FOR A WHOLE HALF HOUR.WENDLA.I WILL ASK INA WHEN I GET THERE.FRAU BERGMANN.NOW DON'T FET, SWEET ANGEL! I'M TERTED MYSELF TO KNOW IF HEME THROUGH THE WDOW OR BY THE CHIMNEY.WENDLA.OR HADN'T I BETTER ASK THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP?----THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP MTKNOW BT WHETHER HE FLEW DOWN THE CHIMNEY OR NOT.FRAU BERGMANN.NOT THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP, CHILD; NOT THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP. WHAT DO THECHIMNEY-SWEEP KNOW ABOUT THE STORK! HE'D TELL YOU A LOT OFFOOLISHNS HE DIDN'T BELIEVE HIMSELF----WHA----WHAT ARE YOU STARGAT DOWN THERE THE STREET?WENDLA.A MAN, MOTHER,----THREE TIM AS BIG AS AN OX!----WH FEET LIKTEAMBOATS----!FRAU BERGMANN.(_RHG TO THE WDOW._)IMPOSSIBLE! IMPOSSIBLE!WENDLA.(_AT THE SAME TIME._)HE HOLDS A BEDSLAT UNR HIS CH AND FIDDL “DIE WACHT AM RHE” ON----THERE, HE'S JT TURNED THE RNER.----FRAU BERGMANN.YOU ARE, AND ALWAYS WILL BE A FOOLISH CHILD!----TO IGHTEN YOUR OLDSIMPLE MOTHER THAT WAY!----GO GET YOUR HAT! I WONR WHEN YOU WILLUNRSTAND THGS. I'VE GIVEN UP HOPE OF YOU.WENDLA.SO HAVE I, MOTHER AR, SO HAVE I. IT'S A SAD THG ABOUT MYUNRSTANDG.----I HAVE A SISTER WHO HAS BEEN MARRIED FOR TWO AND AHALF YEARS, I MYSELF HAVE BEEN MA AN NT FOR THE THIRD TIME, AND IHAVEN'T THE LEAST IA HOW ALL ABOUT.----DON'T BE CROSS,MOTHER AR, DON'T BE CROSS! WHOM THE WORLD SHOULD I ASK BUT YOU!PLEASE TELL ME, AR MOTHER! TELL ME, AR MOTHER! I'M ASHAMED FORMYSELF. PLEASE, MOTHER, SPEAK! DON'T SLD ME FOR ASKG YOU ABOUT. GIVE ME AN ANSWER----HOW DO HAPPEN?----HOW DO ALL EABOUT?----YOU NNOT REALLY CEIVE YOURSELF THAT I, WHO AM FOURTEENYEARS OLD, STILL BELIEVE THE STORK.FRAU BERGMANN.GOOD. LORD, CHILD, BUT YOU ARE PECULIAR!----WHAT IAS YOU HAVE!----IREALLY N'T DO THAT!WENDLA.BUT WHY NOT, MOTHER?----WHY NOT?----IT N'T BE ANYTHG UGLY IFEVERYBODY IS LIGHTED OVER !FRAU BERGMANN.O----O GOD PROTECT ME!----I SERVE----GO GET DRSED, CHILD, GO GETDRSED!WENDLA.I'LL GO----AND SUPPOSE YOUR CHILD WENT AND ASKED THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP?FRAU BERGMANN.BUT THAT WOULD BE MADNS!----COME HERE, CHILD, E HERE, I'LL TELLYOU! I'LL TELL YOU EVERYTHG----O ALMIGHTY GOODNS!----ONLY NOTTO-DAY, WENDLA!----TO-MORROW, THE NEXT DAY, NEXT WEEK----ANY TIME YOUWANT, AR HEART----WENDLA.TELL ME TO-DAY, MOTHER; TELL ME NOW! RIGHT AWAY!----NOW THAT I HAVEEN YOU SO IGHTENED I N NEVER BE PEACEFUL UNTIL YOU DO.FRAU BERGMANN.I N'T DO , WENDLA.WENDLA.OH, WHY N'T YOU, MOTHER AR!----I WILL KNEEL HERE AT YOUR FEET ANDLAY MY HEAD YOUR LAP. YOU N VER MY HEAD WH YOUR APRON ANDTALK AND TALK, AS IF YOU WERE ENTIRELY ALONE THE ROOM. I WON'TMOVE, I WON'T CRY, I WILL BEAR ALL PATIENTLY, NO MATTER WHAT MAYE.FRAU BERGMANN.HEAVEN KNOWS, WENDLA, THAT I AM NOT TO BLAME! HEAVEN KNOWS!----COME HERE GOD'S NAME! I WILL TELL YOU, CHILD, HOW YOU METO THIS WORLD.----LISTEN TO ME, WENDLA.----WENDLA.(_UNR THE APRON._)I'M LISTENG.FRAU BERGMANN.(_EXTATILLY._)BUT 'S NO E, CHILD!----I N'T JTIFY . I SERVE TO BE PUTTO PRISON----TO HAVE YOU TAKEN OM ME.WENDLA.TAKE HEART, MOTHER!FRAU BERGMANN.LISTEN, THEN----!WENDLA.(_TREMBLG UNR THE APRON._)O GOD! O GOD!FRAU BERGMANN.IN ORR TO HAVE A CHILD----DO YOU UNRSTAND ME, WENDLA?WENDLA.QUICK, MOTHER, I N'T STAND MUCH LONGER.FRAU BERGMANN.IN ORR TO HAVE A CHILD----ONE MT LOVE--THE MAN--TO WHOM ONE ISMARRIED--LOVE HIM, I TELL YOU--AS ONE N ONLY LOVE A MAN! ONE MTLOVE HIM SO MUCH WH ONE'S WHOLE HEART, SO--SO THAT ONE N'TSCRIBE ! ONE MT LOVE HIM, WENDLA, AS YOU AT YOUR AGE ARE STILLUNABLE TO LOVE----NOW YOU KNOW !WENDLA.(_GETTG UP._)GREAT----GOD---- HEAVEN!FRAU BERGMANN.NOW YOU KNOW WHAT AN ORAL AWAS YOU!WENDLA.AND THAT IS ALL?FRAU BERGMANN.AS TE AS GOD HELPS ME!----TAKE YOUR BASKET NOW AND GO TO INA. YOUWILL GET CHOLATE AND K THERE.----COME, LET'S LOOK YOU OVER, THELACED SHO, THE SILK GLOV, THE SAILOR BLOE, THE ROSE YOURHAIR--YOUR DRS IS REALLY BEG MUCH TOO SHORT FOR YOU, WENDLA!WENDLA.DID YOU GET MEAT FOR LUNCH, MOTHER?FRAU BERGMANN.THE GOOD GOD PROTECT AND BLS YOU----I WILL FD AN OPPORTUNY TOADD A HANDBREADTH OF FLOUNC TO THE BOTTOM.SCENE THIRD.HANS RILOW.(_WH A LIGHT HIS HAND, FASTENS THE DOOR BEHD HIM AND OPENSTHE LID._)“HAVE YOU PRAYED TO-NIGHT, DMONA?” (_HE TAK A REPRODUCTN OFTHE VEN OF PALMA VECCH OM HIS BOSOM._)----THOU WILT NOT APPEARTO ME AFTER THE OUR FATHER, DARLG,----AS THAT MOMENT OFANTICIPATED BLISS WHEN I SAW THEE NTEMPLATIVELY EXPECTANT OFSOMEONE'S G, LYG JONATHAN SCHLGER'S SHOP WDOW----JTAS ENTICG AS THOU ART NOW, WH THE SUPPLE LIMBS, THE SOFTLYARCHED HIPS, THE PLUMP, YOUTHFUL BREASTS.----OH HOW TOXITEDWH JOY THE GREAT MASTER MT HAVE BEEN WHEN HIS GLANCE STRAYED OVERTHE FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD ORIGAL STRETCHED OUT UPON THE DIVAN!WILT THOU NOT VIS ME FOR AWHILE MY DREAMS? I WILL RECEIVE THEEWH WILY OPEN ARMS AND WILL KISS THEE UNTIL THOU ART BREATHLS.THOU DRAWT ME ONWARD AS THE ENCHANTED PRCS HER SERTEDSTLE. PORTALS AND DOORS OPEN THEMSELV AS IF BY AN UNSEEN HAND,WHILE THE FOUNTA THE PARK BELOW BEGS TO SPLASH JOYOLY----“IT IS THE E!----IT IS THE E!” THE IGHTFUL BEATG MYBREAST SHOWS THEE THAT I DO NOT MURR THEE OM IVOLO EMOTN.THE THOUGHT OF MY LONELY NIGHTS IS STRANGLG ME. I SWEAR TO THEE,CHILD, ON MY SOUL, THAT IS NOT SATIETY WHICH L ME. WHO ULVER BOAST OF BEG SATIATED OF THEE!BUT THOU SUCKT THE MARROW OM MY BON, THOU BENST MY BACK, THOUROBBT MY YOUTHFUL EY OF THEIR LAST SPARK OF BRILLIANCY.----THOUART SO ARROGANT TOWARD ME THY HUMAN MOSTY, SO GALLG WH THYIMMOVABLE LIMBS!----THOU OR I! AND I HAVE WON THE VICTORY.SUPPOSE I UNT THEM----ALL THOSE WHO SLEEP, WH WHOM I HAVE FOUGHTTHE SAME BATTLE HERE----: PSYCHE BY THUMANN--ANOTHER BEQUT OM THPDLE-SHANKED MAMOISELLE ANGELIQUE, THAT RATTLNAKE THEPARADISE OF MY CHILDHOOD; IO BY CORREG; GALATHEA BY LOSSOW; THEN ACUPID BY BOUGUERE; ADA BY J. VAN BEERS--THAT ADA WHOM I HAD TOABDUCT OM A SECRET DRAWER PAPA'S SECRETARY ORR TORPORATE MY HAREM; A TREMBLG, MOST LEDA BY MAKART, WHOM IFOUND BY CHANCE AMONG MY BROTHER'S LLEGE BOOKS----SEVEN, THOUBLOOMG NDIDATE FOR ATH, HAVE PRECED THEE UPON THIS PATH TOTARTAS. LET THAT BE A NSOLATN UNTO THEE, AND SEEK NOT TOCREASE MY TORMENTS AT THIS ENORMY BY THAT FLEETG LOOK.THOU DIT NOT FOR THY SS, THOU DIT ON ACUNT OF ME!----ASPROTECTN AGAST MYSELF I GO TO MY SEVENTH WIFE-MURR WH ABLEEDG HEART. THERE IS SOMETHG TRAGIC THE RôLE OF BLUEBEARD. IBELIEVE THE BED SUFFERGS OF HIS MURRED WIV DID NOT EQUALTHE TORMENTS HE UNRWENT EACH TIME HE STRANGLED ONE OF THEM.BUT MY THOUGHTS WILL BEE MORE PEACEFUL, MY BODY WILL STRENGTHENSELF, WHEN THOU, THOU LTLE VIL, RIST NO LONGER THE REDSAT PADDG OF MY JEWEL SE. IN PLACE OF THEE, I WILL DULGE WANTON JOYONS WH BONHSEN'S LURLEI OR LGER'S FORSAKEN ONE,OR DEEGGER'S LONI--SO I SHOULD BE ALL THE QUICKER! BUT A QUARTER OFA YEAR MORE, PERHAPS THY UNVEILED CHARMS, SWEET SOUL, WOULD BEG TONSUME MY POOR HEAD AS THE SUN DO A PAT OF BUTTER. IT IS HIGH TIMETO CLARE THE DIVORCE OM BED AND BOARD.BRRR! I FEEL A HELGABL WH ME? MORURA ME SALUTAT! MAIN,MAIN, WHY DOST THOU PRS THY KNE TOGETHER?----WHY NOW OF ALLTIM?----IN FACE OF THE SCTABLE ETERNY?----A MOVEMENT AND IWILL SPARE THY LIFE!----A WOMANLY EMOTN, A SIGN OF PASSN, OFSYMPATHY, MAIN!----I WILL AME THEE GOLD, AND HANG THEE OVER MYBED! DOT THOU NOT GUS THAT ONLY THY CHASTY BEGETS MYBCHERY?----WOE, WOE, UNTO THE HUMAN ON!----ONE ALWAYS PERCEIV THAT THEY RECEIVED AN EXEMPLARY TN----ITIS JT SO WH ME.“HAVE YOU PRAYED TO-NIGHT, DMONA?”MY HEART NTRACTS,----MADNS!----ST. AGN ALSO DIED FOR HERRERVE AND WAS NOT HALF AS NAKED AS THOU!----ANOTHER KISS UPON THYBLOOMG BODY----UPON THY CHILDISH SWELLG BREAST--UPON THY SWEETLYROUND--THY CEL KNE----“IT IS THE E, IS THE E, MY SOUL, LET ME NOT NAME TOYOU, YOU CHASTE STARS! IT IS THE E!”----(_THE PICTURE FALLS TO THE PTHS, HE SHUTS THE LID._)FOURTH SCENE._A HAYMOW. MELCHR LI ON HIS BACK THE H HAY. WENDLA UP THE LADR._WENDLA.HERE'S WHERE YOU'VE HID YOURSELF?----THEY'RE ALL HUNTG FOR YOU. THEWAGON IS OUTSI AGA. YOU MT HELP. THERE'S A STORM G UP.MELCHIOR.GO AWAY OM ME! GO AWAY OM ME!WENDLA.WHAT'S THE MATTER WH YOU?----WHY ARE YOU HIDG YOUR FACE?MELCHIOR.OUT! OUT! I'LL THROW YOU DOWN ON THE FLOOR BELOW.WENDLA.NOW FOR CERTA I'M NOT GOG.--(_KNEELS DOWN BY HIM._) WHY WON'T YOUE OUT WH ME TO THE MEADOW, MELCHR?----HERE IS HOT ANDDARK. SUPPOSE WE DO GET WET TO THE SK, WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL THATMAKE TO !MELCHIOR.THE HAY SMELLS SO FE.----THE SKY OUTSI MT BE AS BLACK AS APALL----I ONLY SEE THE BRILLIANT POPPY ON YOUR BREAST----AND I HEARYOUR HEART BEATG----WENDLA.DON'T KISS ME, MELCHR!----DON'T KISS ME!MELCHIOR.YOUR HEART----I HEAR BEATG----WENDLA.PEOPLE LOVE----WHEN THEY KISS----DON'T, DON'T!MELCHIOR.OH, BELIEVE ME, THERE'S NO SUCH THG AS LOVE! EVERYTHG ISSELFISHNS, EVERYTHG IS EGOTISM!----I LOVE YOU AS LTLE AS YOULOVE ME.WENDLA.DON'T----DON'T, MELCHR!----MELCHIOR.WENDLA!WENDLA.OH, MELCHR!----DON'T, DON'T----FIFTH SCENE.FRAU GABOR.(_SS WRG._)_DEAR HERR STIEFEL_:--AFTER TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF NSIRATN ANDRENSIRATN OF ALL YOU HAVE WRTEN ME, I TAKE UP MY PEN WH AHEAVY HEART. I NNOT FURNISH YOU WH THE NECSARY AMOUNT FOR THEVOYAGE TO AMERI--I GIVE YOU MY WORD OF HONOR. IN THE FIRST PLACE, IHAVE NOT THAT MUCH TO MY CRED, AND THE SEND PLACE, IF I HAD, WOULD BE THE GREATT S IMAGABLE FOR ME TO PUT TO YOUR HANDSTHE MEANS OF ACPLISHG SUCH AN ILL-NSIRED MEASURE. YOU WILLBE DOG ME A BTER WRONG, HERR STIEFEL, IF YOU SEE A SIGN OF LACKOF LOVE MY REFAL. ON THE NTRARY, WOULD BE THE GREATTNEGLECT OF MY DUTY AS YOUR MOTHERLY IEND WERE I TO ALLOW MYSELF TOBE AFFECTED BY YOUR TEMPORARY LACK OF TERMATN, SO THAT I ALSOLOST MY HEAD AND BLDLY FOLLOWED MY FIRST FLEETG IMPULSE. I AMVERY READY-- SE YOU SIRE --TO WRE TO YOUR PARENTS. I SHOULDSEEK TO NVCE YOUR PARENTS THAT YOU HAVE DONE WHAT YOU ULDDURG THIS QUARTER, THAT YOU HAVE EXHSTED YOUR STRENGTH, THAT ARIGORO JUDGMENT OF YOUR SE WOULD NOT ONLY BE ADVISABLE, BUTMIGHT BE THE GREATT GREE PREJUDICIAL TO YOUR MENTAL AND BODILYHEALTH.THAT YOU IMPLY A THREAT TO TAKE YOUR OWN LIFE SE FLIGHT ISIMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU, TO SPEAK PLALY, HAS SOMEWHAT SURPRISED ME. NOMATTER HOW UNSERVG IS A MISFORTUNE, HERR STIEFEL, ONE SHOULDNEVER CHOOSE IMPROPER MEANS TO PE . THE WAY WHICH YOU, TOWHOM I HAVE ALWAYS DONE ONLY GOOD, WANT TO MAKE ME RPONSIBLE FOR APOSSIBLE IGHTFUL ACTN ON YOUR PART, HAS SOMETHG ABOUT WHICH, THE EY OF AN EVIL-THKG PERSON, MIGHT BE MISNSTED VERYEASILY. I MT NFS THAT THIS OUTBREAK OF YOURS--YOU WHO KNOW SOWELL WHAT ONE OW TO ONELF--IS THE LAST THG FOR WHICH I WASPREPARED. HOWEVER, I CHERISH THE STRONG NVICTN THAT YOU ARELABORG YET TOO MUCH UNR THE SHOCK OF YOUR FIRST IGHT TO BE ABLETO UNRSTAND PLETELY YOUR ACTN.AND, THEREFORE, I HOPE WH NFINCE THAT THE WORDS OF ME WILLFD YOU ALREADY BETTER SPIRS. TAKE UP THE MATTER AS STANDS.IN MY OPN IS UNWISE TO JUDGE A YOUNG MAN BY HIS SCHOOL RERD.WE HAVE TOO MANY EXAMPL OF BAD STUNTS BEG DISTGUISHED MEN,AND, ON THE OTHER HAND, OF BRILLIANT STUNTS NOT BEG AT ALLREMARKABLE LIFE. AT ANY RATE, I N ASSURE YOU THAT YOURMISFORTUNE, AS FAR AS LI WH ME, SHALL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE YOUR ASSOCIATN WH MELCHR. ON THE NTRARY, WILL AFFORD METHE GREATT PLEASURE TO SEE MY SON GOG WH A YOUNG MAN WHO, LETTHE WORLD JUDGE HIM AS WILL, IS ABLE TO W MY FULLT SYMPATHY.AND, THEREFORE, HOLD YOUR HEAD HIGH, HERR STIEFEL!----SUCH A CRISISAS THIS TO ALL OF AND WILL SOON BE SURMOUNTED. IF ALL OF HAD REURSE TO DAGGER OR POISON SUCH S, THERE WOULD SOON BENO MEN LEFT THE WORLD. LET ME HEAR OM YOU RIGHT SOON AGA, ANDACCEPT THE HEARTFELT GREETGS OF YOUR UNCHANGEDMOTHERLY IEND,FANNY G.SCENE SIXTH._BERGMANN'S GARN THE MORNG SUNLIGHT._WENDLA.WHY HAVE YOU SLIPPED OUT OF THE ROOM?----TO HUNT VLETS!----BEEMOTHER SEEMS TO LGH AT ME.----WHY N'T YOU BRG YOUR LIPSTOGETHER ANY MORE?----I DON'T KNOW.----INED I DON'T KNOW, I N'TFD WORDS----THE PATH IS LIKE A VELVET RPET, NO PEBBL, NOTHORNS.----MY FEET DON'T TOUCH THE GROUND.----OH, HOW I SLEPT LASTNIGHT!HERE THEY ARE.----I BEE AS GRAVE AS A NUN AT MUNN.----SWEETVLETS!----PEACE, LTLE MOTHER, I WILL PUT ON MY LONG DRS.----OHGOD, IF SOMEBODY WOULD E UPON WHOSE NECK I ULD FALL AND TELL!SCENE SEVEN._EVENG TWILIGHT. LIGHT CLOUDS THE SKY. THE PATH STRAGGLTHROUGH LOW BH AND ARSE GRASS. THE FLOW OF THE STREAM ISHEARD THE DISTANCE._MORITZ.BETTER AND BETTER.----I AM NOT F. ANOTHER MAY BE ABLE TO CLIMB TOTHE TOP. I PULL THE DOOR TO BEHD ME AND STEP TO THE OPEN.----IDON'T RE ENOUGH ABOUT TO LET MYSELF BE TURNED BACK.I HAVEN'T SUCCEED FORCG MY WAY. HOW SHALL I FORCE MY WAYNOW!----I HAVE NO NTRACT WH GOD. LET THEM MAKE OUT OF THE THGWHAT THEY WILL. I HAVE BEEN FORCED.----I DO NOT HOLD MY PARENTSANSWERABLE. AT THE SAME TIME, THE WORST MT FALL UPON THEM. THEYWERE OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOG. I WAS A WEAKLG WHEN IME TO THE WORLD----OR ELSE I WOULD HAVE BEEN WISE ENOUGH TOBEE ANOTHER BEG. WHY SHOULD I BE FORCED TO PAY FOR THE FACT THATTHE OTHERS WERE HERE ALREADY!I MT HAVE FALLEN ON MY HEAD----IF ANYBODY MAK ME A PRENT OF AMAD DOG I'LL GIVE HIM BACK A MAD DOG. AND IF HE WON'T TAKE BACK HISMAD DOG, THEN I AM HUMAN AND----I MT HAVE FALLEN ON MY HEAD!MAN IS BORN BY CHANCE AND SHOULD NOT, AFTER MATURENSIRATN----IT IS TO SHOOT ONELF AD!THE WEATHER AT LEAST HAS SHOWN SELF NSIRATE. THE WHOLE DAY LOOKED LIKE RA AND YET HAS HELD OFF.----A RARE PEACE L NATURE. NOWHERE ANYTHG DAZZLG, EXCG. HEAVEN AND EARTH ARELIKE A TRANSPARENT FABRIC. AND EVERYTHG SEEMS SO HAPPY. THELANDSPE IS AS SWEET AS THE MELODY OF A LULLABY.----“SLEEP, LTLEPRCE, SLEEP ON,” AS FRäULE SNANDULIA SANG. IT'S A SHAME SHE HOLDSHER ELBOWS SO AWKWARDLY!----I DANCED FOR THE LAST TIME AT THECäCILIENFT. SNANDULIA ONLY DANC WH GOOD MATCH.----HER SILKDRS WAS CUT LOW ONT AND THE BACK. IN THE BACK, DOWN TO HERGIRDLE AND THE ONT DOWN----UNNSCNABLY LOW.----SHE ULDN'THAVE WORN A CHEMISE.------THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHG ABLE TO AFFECT MEYET.----MORE THAN HALF CURSY.----IT MT BE A WONRFULSENSATN----A FEELG AS IF ONE WERE BEG RRIED THROUGH THERAPIDS----I SHOULD NEVER TELL ANYBODY THAT I WAS EXPERIENCGSOMETHG UNTRIED BEFORE----I WOULD ACT AS IF I HAD DONE ALL.--THERE IS SOMETHG SHAMEFUL GROWG UP TO BE A MAN WHOUTHAVG LEARNED THE CHIEF FUNCTN OF MASCULY.----YOU E OMEGYPT, HONORABLE SIR, AND HAVE NOT SEEN THE PYRAMIDS?!I WILL NOT CRY AGA TO-DAY. I WILL NOT THK OF MY BURIALAGA.----MELCHR WILL LAY A WREATH ON MY FF. PASTOR KAHLBCHWILL NSOLE MY PARENTS. RECTOR SONNENSTICH WILL CE EXAMPL OMHISTORY.----IT IS POSSIBLE THAT I SHALL NOT HAVE A TOMBSTONE.I HAD WANTED A SNOW-WHE MARBLE URN ON A PESTAL OF BLACKSYENE.----THANK GOD, I SHALL NOT MISS THEM. MONUMENTS ARE FOR THELIVG, NOT FOR THE AD.I SHOULD NEED A WHOLE YEAR TO SAY FAREWELL TO EVERYTHG MYTHOUGHTS. I WILL NOT CRY AGA. I AM SO HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO LOOK BACKWHOUT BTERNS. HOW MANY BETIFUL EVENGS I HAVE PASSED WHMELCHR!----UNR THE OSIERS; AT THE FORTER'S HOE; ON THEHIGHWAY WHERE THE FIVE LNS STAND; ON THE SCHLOSSBERG, AMONG THERTFUL S OF THE RUNENBURG.----WHEN THE HOUR , I WILL THKWH ALL MY MIGHT OF WHIPPED CREAM. WHIPPED CREAM DON'T STAY FIRM.IT FALLS AND LEAV A PLEASANT AFTER-TASTE.----I HAD THOUGHT MEN WEREFELY WORSE. I HAVEN'T FOUND ONE WHO DIDN'T WANT TO DO HIS BT.MANY HAVE SUFFERED WH ME ON MY OWN ACUNT.I WANR TO THE ALTAR LIKE THE ANCIENT ETRIAN YOUTH WHOSE DYGRATTLE BOUGHT HIS BROTHERS' PROSPERY FOR THE G YEAR.----IEXPERIENCE B BY B THE MYSTER AWE OF LIBERATN. I SOB WHSORROW OVER MY LOT.----LIFE HAS TURNED S LD SHOULR TO ME. I SEEEARNT, IENDLY GLANC LURG ME THERE THE DISTANCE, THEHEADLS QUEEN, THE HEADLS QUEEN--PASSN AWAG ME WH OPENARMS----YOUR MANDS NCERN MORS; I RRY MY EE TICKET MYSELF. IF THE SHELL SKS, THE BUTTERFLY FLS OM ; THE LNNO LONGER HOLDS.----YOU SHOULD DRIVE NO MAD BARGA WH THE SWDLE!THE MISTS CLOSE ; LIFE IS BTER ON THE TONGUE.ILSE.(_IN TORN CLOTHG, A BRIGHT CLOTH ABOUT HER HEAD, GRABS HIM BY THHOULR OM BEHD._)WHAT HAVE YOU LOST?MORITZ.ILSE!ILSE.WHAT ARE YOU HUNTG HERE?MORITZ.WHY DID YOU IGHTEN ME SO?ILSE.WHAT ARE YOU HUNTG?----WHAT HAVE YOU LOST?MORITZ.WHY DID YOU IGHTEN ME SO FEARFULLY?ILSE.I'M G OM TOWN.----I'M GOG HOME.MORITZ.I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'VE LOST.ILSE.THEN SEEKG WON'T HELP YOU.MORITZ.SAKERMENT, SAKERMENT!ILSE.I HAVEN'T BEEN HOME FOR FOUR DAYS.MORITZ.RTLS AS A T!ILSE.BEE I HAVE ON MY DANCG SLIPPERS----MOTHER WILL MAKEEY!----COME TO OUR HOE WH ME!MORITZ.WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN STROLLG AGA?ILSE.WH THE PRIAPIA!MORITZ.PRIAPIA?ILSE.WH NOHL, WH FEHRENDORF, WH PADSKY, WH LENZ, RANK,SPüHLER--WH ALL OF THEM POSSIBLE! KLG, KLG----THGS WERELIVELY!MORITZ.DO THEY PAT YOU?ILSE.FEHRENDORF PATED ME AS A PILLAR SAT. I AM STANDG ON ACORTHIAN PAL. FEHRENDORF, I TELL YOU, IS A GIBBERG IDT. THELAST TIME, I TROD ON ONE OF HIS TUB. HE WIPED HIS BSH ON MY HAIR.I FETCHED HIM A BOX ON THE EAR. HE THREW HIS PALETTE AT MY HEAD. IUPSET THE EASEL. HE CHASED ME ALL ABOUT THE STUD, OVER DIVANS,TABL AND CHAIRS, WH HIS MAHLSTICK. BEHD THE STOVE STOOD ASKETCH;----BE GOOD OR I'LL TEAR ! HE SWORE AMNTY, AND--AND THENKISSED ME PROMPTLY AND IGHTFULLY, IGHTFULLY, I TELL YOU.MORITZ.WHERE DO YOU SPEND THE NIGHT WHEN YOU STOP TOWN?ILSE.YTERDAY WE WERE AT NOHL'S.----THE DAY BEFORE WHBOJOKEWSCH--SUNDAY WH OIKONOMOPULOS. WE HAD CHAMPAGNE ATPADSKY'S. VALABREGEZ HAD SOLD HIS “WOMAN DEAD OF THE PT.” ADOLARDRANK OUT OF THE ASH TRAY. LENZ SANG THE “CHILD'S MURRER,” ANDADOLAR POUND THE GUAR OUT OF SHAPE. I WAS SO DNK THEY HAD TOPUT ME TO BED.----DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL YET, MORZ?MORITZ.NO, NO,----I TAKE MY LEAVE OF THIS QUARTER.ILSE.YOU ARE RIGHT. AH, HOW TIME PASS WHEN ONE EARNS MONEY!----DO YOUREMEMBER HOW WE ED TO PLAY ROBBERS?----WENDLA BERGMANN AND YOU ANDI AND THE OTHERS, WHEN YOU ED TO E OUT THE EVENG AND DRKWARM GOAT'S K AT OUR HOE?----WHAT IS WENDLA DOG? I HAVEN'TSEEN HER SCE THE FLOOD----WHAT IS MELCHI GABOR DOG?----DO HEEM AS EP THKG AS EVER?----WE ED TO STAND OPPOSE EACHOTHER DURG SGG.MORITZ.HE PHILOSOPHIZ.ILSE.WENDLA ME TO SEE A WHILE AGO AND BROUGHT MOTHER SOME PRENTS. ISAT THAT DAY FOR ISIDOR LANDER. HE NEED ME FOR THE HOLY MARY, THEMOTHER OF GOD, WH THE CHRIST CHILD. HE IS A NNY AND DISAGREEABLE.HU, LIKE A WEATHERCK!----HAVE YOU A KATZENJAMMER?MORITZ.FROM LAST NIGHT!----WE SOAKED LIKE HIPPOPOTAMI. I STAGGERED HOME ATFIVE O'CLOCK.ILSE.ONE NEED ONLY TO LOOK AT YOU.----WERE THERE ANY GIRLS THERE?MORITZ.ARABELLA, THE BEER NYMPH, AN ANDALIAN. THE LANDLORD LET ALL OF SPEND THE WHOLE NIGHT ALONE WH HER.ILSE.ONE ONLY NEED LOOK AT YOU, MORZ!----I DON'T KNOW WHAT AKATZENJAMMER'S LIKE. DURG THE LAST RNIVAL I WENT THREE DAYS ANDTHREE NIGHTS WHOUT GOG TO BED OR TAKG MY CLOTH OFF. FROM THEBALL TO THE Fé, NOON AT BELLAVISTA; EVENGS, TGLE-TANGLE; NIGHT,TO THE BALL. LENA WAS THERE, AND THE FAT VLA.----THE THIRD NIGHTHERICH FOUND ME.MORITZ.HAD HE BEEN LOOKG FOR YOU?ILSE.HE TRIPPED OVER MY ARM. I LAY SENSELS THE SNOW THTREET.----THAT'S HOW I WENT WH HIM. FOR FOURTEEN DAYS I DIDN'TLEAVE HIS LODGGS----A DREADFUL TIME! IN THE MORNG I HAD TO THROWON HIS PERSIAN NIGHTGOWN AND THE EVENG GO ABOUT THE ROOM THE BLACK STUME OF A PAGE; WHE LACE FFL AT MY NECK, MYKNE AND MY WRISTS. EVERY DAY HE PHOTOGRAPHED ME SOME NEWARRANGEMENT----ONCE ON THE SOFA AS ARIADNE, ONCE AS LEDA, ONCE ASGANYME, ONCE ON ALL FOURS AS A FEME NEBUCHADNEZZAR. THEN HELONGED FOR MURR, FOR SHOOTG, SUICI AND AL GAS. EARLY THEMORNG HE BROUGHT A PISTOL TO BED, LOAD FULL OF SHOT AND PUT AGAST MY BREAST! A TWCH AND I'LL PULL!----OH, HE WOULD HAVEFIRED, MORZ, HE WOULD HAVE FIRED!----THEN HE PUT THE THG HIS MOUTH LIKE A BLOW-PIPE.----THAT AWOKE THE FEELG OFSELF-PRERVATN. AND THEN----BRRR!----THE SHOT MIGHT HAVE GOHROUGH MY SPE.MORITZ.IS HERICH LIVG YET?ILSE.HOW DO I KNOW!----OVER THE BED WAS A LARGE MIRROR SET TO THECEILG. THE ROOM SEEMED AS HIGH AS A TOWER AND AS BRIGHT AS AN OPERAHOE. ONE SAW ONE'S SELF HANGG DOWN BODILY OM HEAVEN. I HADIGHTFUL DREAMS AT NIGHT----O GOD, O GOD, IF WERE ONLYDAY!----GOOD-NIGHT, ILSE, WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP YOU WILL BE PRETTY TOMURR!MORITZ.IS THIS HERICH LIVG YET?ILSE.PLEASE GOD, NO!----ONE DAY, WHEN HE WENT FOR ABSTHE, I PUT ON THEMANTLE AND RAN OUT TO THE STREET. THE RNIVAL WAS OVER; THE POLICEARRTED ME; WHAT WAS I DOG MAN'S CLOTH?----THEY TOOK ME TOTHE CENTRAL STATN. NOHL, FEHRENDORF, PADSKY, SPüHLER,OIKONOMOPULOS, THE WHOLE PRIAPIA ME THERE AND BAILED ME OUT. THEYTRANSPORTED ME A B TO ADOLAR'S STUD. SCE THEN I'VE BEEN TETO THE HERD. FEHRENDORF IS AN APE, NOHL IS A PIG, BOJOKEWSCH ANOWL, LOISON A HYENA, OIKONOMOPULOS A MEL----THEREFORE I LOVE ONEAND ALL OF THEM THE SAME AND WOULDN'T ATTACH MYSELF TO ANYONE ELSE,EVEN IF THE WORLD WERE FULL OF ARCHANGELS AND LNAIR!MORITZ.I MT GO BACK, ILSE.ILSE.COME AS FAR AS OUR HOE WH ME!MORITZ.WHAT FOR?----WHAT FOR?----ILSE.TO DRK WARM GOAT'S K! I WILL SGE YOUR HAIR AND HANG A LTLEBELL AROUND YOUR NECK.----THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER KID WH WHICH YOU NPLAY.MORITZ.I MT GO BACK. I HAVE YET THE SASSANIS, THE SERMON ON THE MOUNTAND THE PARALLELEPIPEDON ON MY THOUGHTS.----GOOD-NIGHT, ILSE!ILSE.SLEEP WELL!----DO YOU EVER GO TO THE WIGWAM WHERE MELCHI GABOR BURIEDMY TOMAHAWK?----BRRR! UNTIL YOU ARE MARRIED I'LL LIE THE STRAW.(_RUNS OUT._)MORITZ.(_ALONE._)IT MIGHT HAVE ST ONLY A WORD.----(_HE LLS_)----ILSE?----ILSE!----THANK GOD SHE DON'T HEAR ME ANY MORE.----I AM NOT THEHUMOR.----ONE NEEDS A CLEAR HEAD AND A HAPPY HEART FOR .----WHAT ALOST OPPORTUNY!----I WOULD HAVE SAID THAT I HAD MANY CRYSTALMIRRORS OVER MY BED----THAT I HAD TRAED AN UNBROKEN FILLY----THATI HAD HER PROUDLY MARCH ONT OF ME ON THE RPET LONG BLACKSILK STOCKGS AND BLACK PATENT LEATHER SHO, LONG BLACK GLOV,BLACK VELVET ABOUT HER NECK----HAD STRANGLED HER A MOMENT OFMADNS WH MY CHNS. I WOULD LGH WHEN THE TALK TURNEDON PASSN----I WOULD CRY OUT!----CRY OUT!----CRY OUT! IT ISYOU, ILSE!----PRIAPIA!----LOSS OF MEMORY!----THAT TAK MYSTRENGTH!----THIS CHILD OF FORTUNE, THIS SUNNY CHILD----THIS JOYOMAIN ON MY DOLORO PATH!----O!----O!------ ---- ---- ---- -------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----(_IN THE BH BY THE BANK._)HAVE I FOUND AGA UNWILLGLY--THE SEAT OF TURF. THE MULLESSEEM TO HAVE GROWN SCE YTERDAY. THE OUTLOOK BETWEEN THE WILLOWSIS STILL THE SAME----THE WATER NS AS HEAVY AS MELTED LEAD. IMTN'T FET. (_HE TAK FR GABOR'S LETTER OM HIS POCKET ANDBURNS ._)----HOW THE SPARKS FLY--HERE AND THERE, DOWNWARD ANDUPWARD----SOULS!----SHOOTG STARS!BEFORE I STCK A LIGHT ONE ULD SEE THE GRASS AND A STREAK ON THEHORIZON.----NOW IS DARK. NOW I SHALL NEVER RETURN HOME AGA.EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (LYRIC) AND BOLD (LYRIC) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
LEA MICHELE SAYS SHE ONCE 'RNERED' JONATHAN GROFF AT A PARTY TO PROFS HER LOVE FOR HIM BEFORE REALIZG HE WAS GAY
Q&A: JONATHAN GROFF ON HIS MOM SEEG HIM NAKED, HIS EMOTNAL ‘NORMAL HEART’ SCENE & GAY ANTHEM IN ‘FROZEN’
JONATHAN GROFF SAYS HIS 'SPRG AWAKENG' CHARACTER GAVE HIM THE STRENGTH TO E OUT AS GAY

BLOGGG BROADWAY: "13"'S FAGMOS AND "SPRG AWAKENG'S" GAY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY MICHAEL PORTANTIEREOCTOBER 15, 2008/3:45 PMBY MICHAEL PORTANTIEREOCTOBER 15, 2008 / 3:45 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"BLOGGG BROADWAY: \"13\"'S FAGMOS AND \"SPRG AWAKENG'S\" GAY SCENE","DATEPUBLISHED":"2008-10-15T19:45:15.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2008-10-15T19:45:15.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL PORTANTIERE","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A SCENE OM 13 (PHOTO CRED: JOAN MARC) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EDOR'S NOTE: STARTG TODAY, OUR THEATER CRIC MICHAEL PORTANTIERE WILL BE BLOGGG REGULARLY ABOUT BROADWAY AND OFF-BROADWAY SHOWS AS WELL AS OTHER EMS OF THEATRIL TERT. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BROADWAY IS ONE OF THE LAST PLAC WHERE YOU’D EXPECT TO FD ANY SORT OF HOMOPHOBIA. BUT SCE THE THEATER ALS WH EVERY NCEIVABLE SORT OF LIFE SUATN, AND SCE PRODUCERS AND ARTISTS N’T NTROL DIENCE REACTN TO GAY (OR SUPPOSEDLY GAY) CHARACTERS AND SUBJECT MATTER, THERE ARE OCSNS WHEN THE CLN OF CERTA WORDS AND SUATNS SHOWS MAK SOME PEOPLE VERY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF A SHOW PICTS HOMOPHOBIC BEHAVR BY CHARACTERS WHO AREN’T CLEARLY CHARACTERIZED AS VILLAS, IS THAT WRONG? IN A RELATED QUTN: IS ACCEPTABLE TO PRENT “IC” SCEN OF GAY TIMACY THAT RULT GASPS, GROANS, AND/OR NERVO LGHTER OM THE DIENCE, PECIALLY WHEN YOUNG PERFORMERS AND DIENC ARE VOLVED?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE QUTNS ARE BEGGED BY TWO MILS NOW ON BROADWAY, 13 AND SPRG AWAKENG. THE FORMER JT OPENED, WHEREAS THE LATTER HAS BEEN PLAYG AT THE EUGENE O’NEILL THEATRE SCE DECEMBER 2006, FOLLOWG S IAL OFF-BROADWAY N AT THE ATLANTIC THEATRE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GRAHAM PHILLIPS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PHOTO CRED: JOAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A SOURCE OF NTROVERSY 13 DURG PREVIEWS WAS THE LORFUL SULT “FAGMO,” WHICH HAD BEEN ED BY THE POPULAR JOCK BRETT (ERIC M. NELSEN) AND HIS MNS TO RI THE CENTRAL CHARACTER, EVAN (GRAHAM PHILLIPS). A BO OF “FAG” AND “HOMO,” THE WORD WAS CUT BEFORE THE SHOW OPENED. APPARENTLY, SOME DIENCE MEMBERS – AS WELL AS A FEW THEATER DTRY PEOPLE – WERE UPSET BY S E BEE PERPETUAT THE IA THAT THE MOST HURTFUL THG KIDS N DO IS IMPLY THAT ONE OF THEIR NUMBER IS GAY. (AMONG KIDS, “FAG” DON’T ALWAYS MEAN “HOMOSEXUAL”; OFTEN MEANS “LAME” OR “TOTALLY UNOL.” BUT ’S NEVER A PLIMENT.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROBERT HORN, -THOR OF 13, TOLD ME RECENTLY THAT HE MA UP “FAGMO,” THOUGH CERTALY SOUNDS LIKE AN THENTIC MIDDLE-SCHOOL SULT. HORN NFIRMED THAT A LOT OF MATERIAL WAS CUT OM THE SHOW DURG PREVIEWS TO BRG DOWN TO S CURRENT 90-MUTE LENGTH; HE SAID HE HAD RECEIVED A LIST OF SUGGTNS OF CUTS AND CHANG OM VAR PEOPLE VOLVED THE PRODUCTN, BUT HE SISTS WAS HIS OWN CISN TO EXCISE “FAGMO” THIS LED TO AN TERTG DISCSN OF HOMOPHOBIA AND PERCEIVED HOMOPHOBIA. I GOT THE IMPRSN THAT, WHEN ALL WAS SAID AND DONE, HORN DIDN’T FEEL SENTIAL TO KEEP THE WORD IF WAS GOG TO UPSET PEOPLE WHO WOULD OTHERWISE LOVE THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THERE’S ANOTHER MOMENT 13 THAT ULD HAVE BEEN VERY DICEY, BUT AS FAR AS I’M NCERNED, DISFORT HAS BEEN AVOID THROUGH SKILLFUL DIRECTN: TWO OF THE BOYS END UP AT THE MOVI WH THE SAME GIRL, WHO’S STG BETWEEN THEM. WHEN THE GUYS CLOSE THEIR EY AND LEAN TO TONGUE-KISS THE YOUNG LADY, SHE MOV AWAY AT THE LAST MOMENT, AND THEY END UP MAKG OUT WH EACH OTHER. THIS IS STAGED SUCH A BRILLIANTLY HILAR WAY, WH SLOW-MOTN AND STROBE LIGHTG, THAT EVEN THE MOST VOCIFERO LGHTER AND SHOUTS OM THE DIENCE SEEM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GION GLICK AND JONATHAN B. WRIGHT THE ORIGAL BROADWAY ST OF SPRG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BY WAY OF PARISON, LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE “GAY SCENE” SPRG AWAKENG, THE NTEMPORARY ROCK MIL BASED ON FRANK WEKD’S LATE-19TH CENTURY DRAMA ABOUT CLUELS TEENAGERS LT. IN THE WEKD PLAY, THERE’S A SWEET, FUNNY, MOVG SCENE WHICH THE YOUNG STUNTS HANSCHEN AND ERNST NNECT EMOTNALLY AND PHYSILLY. WHILE STEVEN SATER’S ADAPTATN OF THIS SCENE FOR THE MIL HEWS CLOSELY TO THE ORIGAL TERMS OF THE TEXT, THE ONSTAGE ENUNTER WAS DIRECTED BY MICHAEL MAYER TO BE PLAYED SUCH AN OVER-THE-TOP EDIC WAY THAT HAS BEE A BROADLY IC SCTN SCENE, MARKED BY OLLY LCULATED MOV ON THE PART OF THE SCER AND POP-EYED SKTISHNS OM HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE MAY NEVER KNOW FOR SURE WHY THIS SCENE HAS BEEN HANDLED THIS MANNER, BUT I HAVE A GUS. ALTHOUGH I DON’T REMEMBER ANY GASPG, GROANG, OR APPROPRIATE LGHS WHEN I SAW SPRG AWAKENG AT A CRICS’ PERFORMANCE EARLY ON AT THE ATLANTIC, I IMAGE THAT THE MOMENT QUTN BEGAN TO ELIC UNWANTED VOL REACTNS WHEN PERFORMED BEFORE GENERAL DIENC — CLUDG YOUNG PEOPLE — LATER THE OFF-BROADWAY N AND DURG BROADWAY PREVIEWS. MAYER PROBABLY CID TO RAMP UP THE EDY OF THE SCENE AS A PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE: YOU KNOW, “IF WE PLAY THIS SUCH A WAY THAT ’S OBV WE WANT THE DIENCE TO LGH, WON’T BE JARRG WHEN THEY DO.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE N UNRSTAND THE IMPULSE, BUT BRGS BACK TO THE QUTNS RAISED AT THE TOP OF THIS MENTARY. I’D LOVE TO HEAR EVERYONE’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

* spring awakening gay scene *

Broadway is one of the last plac where you’d expect to fd any sort of homophobia.

But sce the theater als wh every nceivable sort of life suatn, and sce producers and artists n’t ntrol dience reactn to gay (or supposedly gay) characters and subject matter, there are ocsns when the cln of certa words and suatns shows mak some people very a show picts homophobic behavr by characters who aren’t clearly characterized as villas, is that wrong? In a related qutn: Is acceptable to prent “ic” scen of gay timacy that rult gasps, groans, and/or nervo lghter om the dience, pecially when young performers and dienc are volved?

A bo of “fag” and “homo, ” the word was cut before the show opened.

SPRG AWAKENG (ACT 2)FRANK WEKDTRACK 2 ON SPRG AWAKENG FEATURGFRANCIS ZIEGLER (TRANSLATOR)1 VIEWER17 CONTRIBUTORSSPRG AWAKENG (ACT 2) LYRICSSCENE FIRST._EVENG MELCHR'S STUDY. THE WDOW IS OPEN, A LAMP BURNS ONTHE TABLE.--MELCHR AND MORZ ON THE DIVAN._MORITZ.NOW I'M QUE GAY AGA, ONLY A LTLE B EXCED.----BUT DURG THEGREEK LSON I SLEPT LIKE THE BOTTED POLYPHEM. I'M ASTONISHEDTHAT THE PRONUNCIATN OF THE ANCIENT TONGUE DON'T GIVE ME THEEARACHE.----TO-DAY I WAS WH A HAIR OF BEG LATE----MY FIRSTTHOUGHT ON WAKG WAS OF THE VERBS μι----HIMMEL--HERRGOTT--TFEL--DONNERWETTER, DURG BREAKFAST AND ALL ALONG THE ROAD I NJUGATNTIL I SAW GREEN.----I MT HAVE POPPED OFF TO SLEEP SHORTLY AFTERTHREE. MY PEN MA A BLOT THE BOOK. THE LAMP WAS SMOKG WHENMATHIL WOKE ME; THE BLACKBIRDS THE ELR BH UNR THE WDOWWERE CHIRPG SO HAPPILY----AND I FELT SO EXPRSIBLY MELANCHOLY. IPUT ON MY LLAR AND PASSED THE BSH THROUGH MY HAIR.----ONE FEELS WHEN ONE IMPOS UPON NATURE.MELCHIOR.MAY I ROLL YOU A CIGARETTE?MORITZ.THANKS, I DON'T SMOKE.----IF ONLY KEEPS ON THIS WAY! I WILL WORKAND WORK UNTIL MY EY FALL OUT OF MY HEAD.----ERNT RöBEL HASFAILED THREE TIM SCE VATN; THREE TIM GREEK, TWICE WHKNOCHENBCH; THE LAST TIME THE HISTORY OF LERATURE. I HAVE BEENFIRST FIVE TIM THIS LAMENTABLE NFLICT, AND OM TO-DAY DONOT BOTHER ME!----RöBEL WILL NOT SHOOT HIMSELF. RöBEL HAS NO PARENTSWHO SACRIFICE EVERYTHG FOR HIM. IF HE WANTS HE N BEE ASOLDIER, A WBOY OR A SAILOR. IF I FAIL, MY FATHER WILL FEEL THEBLOW AND MAMMA WILL LAND THE MADHOE. ONE N'T LIVE THROUGH ATHG LIKE THAT!----BEFORE THE EXAMATN I BEGGED GOD TO GIVE MENSUMPTN THAT THE CUP MIGHT PASS ME BY UNTOUCHED. HE PASSED ME BY,THOUGH TO-DAY HIS REOLE SH THE DISTANCE, SO THAT I DARE NOTLIFT MY EY BY NIGHT OR DAY.----NOW THAT I HAVE GRASPED THE BAR ISHALL SWG UP ON . THE NATURAL NSEQUENCE WILL BE THAT I SHALLBREAK MY NECK IF I FALL.MELCHIOR.LIFE IS A WORTHLS MONPLACE. IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A BAD IA IFI HAD HANGED MYSELF THE CRADLE.----WHY DON'T MAMMA E WH THETEA!MORITZ.YOUR TEA WILL DO ME GOOD, MELCHR!----I'M SHIVERG. I FEEL SOSTRANGELY SPIRUALIZED. TOUCH ME ONCE, PLEASE. I SEE,--I HEAR,--IFEEL, MUCH MORE ACUTELY----AND YET EVERYTHG SEEMS LIKE ADREAM----OH, SO HARMON.----HOW STILL THE GARN STRETCH OUTTHERE THE MOONLIGHT, SO STILL, SO EP, AS IF EXTEND TOETERNY. FROM OUT THE BH STEP FABLE FIGUR THAT SLIP AWAY BREATHLS OFFICNS THROUGH THE CLEARGS AND THEN VANISH THE TWILIGHT. IT SEEMS TO ME AS IF A UNSEL WERE TO BE HELD UNRTHE CHTNUT TREE.----SHALL WE GO DOWN THERE, MELCHR?MELCHIOR.LET'S WA UNTIL WE HAVE DNK OUR TEA.MORITZ.THE LEAV WHISPER SO BILY.----IT'S JT AS IF I HEARD MY ADGRANDMOTHER TELLG ME THE STORY OF THE “QUEEN WHOUT A HEAD.” THEREWAS ONCE A WONRFULLY BETIFUL QUEEN, BETIFUL AS THE SUN, MOREBETIFUL THAN ALL THE MAINS THE UNTRY. ONLY, UNFORTUNATELY,SHE ME TO THE WORLD WHOUT A HEAD. SHE ULD NOT EAT, NOT DRK,NOT KISS. SHE ULD ONLY MUNITE WH HER URTIERS BY G HERSOFT LTLE HAND. WH HER DATY FEET SHE STAMPED CLARATNS OFWAR AND ORRS FOR EXECUTNS. THEN, ONE DAY, SHE WAS BIEGED BY AKG, WHO, BY CHANCE, HAD TWO HEADS, WHICH, YEAR AND YEAR OUT,DISPUTED WH ONE ANOTHER SO VLENTLY THAT NEHER ULD GET A WORD EDGEWISE. THE COURT CONJURER--CHIEF TOOK OFF THE SMALLT OFTHE HEADS AND SET UPON THE QUEEN'S BODY. AND, BEHOLD, BEMEHER EXTRAORDARILY WELL! THEREFORE, THE KG AND THE QUEEN WEREMARRIED, AND THE TWO HEADS DISPUTED NO LONGER, BUT KISSED EACH OTHEPON THE BROW, THE CHEEKS AND THE MOUTH, AND LIVED THEREAFTER THROUGHLONG, LONG YEARS OF JOY AND PEACE.----DELECTABLE NONSENSE! SCEVATN I N'T GET THE HEADLS QUEEN OUT OF MY MD. WHEN I SEE APRETTY GIRL, I SEE HER WHOUT A HEAD----AND THEN PRENTLY, I,MYSELF APPEAR TO BE THE HEADLS QUEEN.----IT IS POSSIBLE THATSOMEONE MAY BE SET OVER ME YET.(_FR GABOR WH THE STEAMG TEA, WHICH SHE SETS BEFOREMELCHR AND MORZ ON THE TABLE._)FRAU GABOR.HERE, CHILDREN, HERE'S A MOUTHFUL FOR YOU. GOOD-EVENG, HERRSTIEFEL, HOW ARE YOU?MORITZ.THANK YOU, FR GABOR.----I'M WATCHG THE DANCE DOWN THERE.FRAU GABOR.BUT YOU DON'T LOOK VERY GOOD----DON'T YOU FEEL WELL?MORITZ.IT'S NOT WORTH MENTNG. I WENT TO BED SOMEWHAT TOO LATE LASTNIGHT.MELCHIOR.ONLY THK, HE WORKED ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT.FRAU GABOR.YOU SHOULDN'T DO SUCH THGS, HERR STIEFEL. YOU OUGHT TO TAKE RE OFYOURSELF. THK OF YOUR HEALTH. DON'T SET YOUR SCHOOL ABOVE YOURHEALTH. TAKE PLENTY OF WALKS THE H AIR. AT YOUR AGE, THAT ISMORE IMPORTANT THAN A RRECT E OF MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN.MORITZ.I WILL GO WALKG. YOU ARE RIGHT. ONE N BE DTR WHILE ONE ISTAKG A WALK. WHY DIDN'T I THK OF THAT MYSELF!----THE WRTEN WORKI SHALL STILL HAVE TO DO AT HOME.MELCHIOR.YOU N DO YOUR WRG HERE; THAT WILL MAKE EASIER FOR BOTH OF.----YOU KNOW, MAMMA, THAT MAX VON TRENK HAS BEEN DOWN WH BRAFEVER!----TO-DAY AT NOON HANS RILOW ME OM VON TRENK'S ATHBED TOANNOUNCE TO RECTOR SONNENSTICH THAT VON TRENK HAD JT DIED HISPRENCE. “INED?” SAID SONNENSTICH, “HAVEN'T YOU TWO HOURS OMLAST WEEK TO MAKE UP? HERE IS THE BEADLE'S REPORT. SEE THAT THEMATTER IS CLEARED UP ONCE FOR ALL! THE WHOLE CLASS WILL ATTEND THEBURIAL.”----HANS WAS STCK DUMB.FRAU GABOR.WHAT BOOK IS THAT YOU HAVE, MELCHR?MELCHIOR.“FST.”FRAU GABOR.HAVE YOU READ YET?MELCHIOR.NOT TO THE END.MORITZ.WE'RE JT AT THE WALPURGISNACHT.FRAU GABOR.IF I WERE YOU I SHOULD HAVE WAED FOR ONE OR TWO YEARS.MELCHIOR.I KNOW OF NO BOOK, MAMMA, WHICH I HAVE FOUND SO MUCH BETY. WHYSHOULDN'T I READ ?FRAU GABOR.BEE YOU N'T UNRSTAND .MELCHIOR.YOU N'T KNOW THAT, MAMMA. I FEEL VERY WELL THAT I AM NOT YET ABLETO GRASP THE WORK S ENTIRETY----MORITZ.WE ALWAYS READ TOGETHER; THAT HELPS OUR UNRSTANDG WONRFULLY.FRAU GABOR.YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH, MELCHR, TO BE ABLE TO KNOW WHAT IS GOOD ANDWHAT IS BAD FOR YOU. DO WHAT YOU THK BT FOR YOURSELF. I SHOULD BETHE FIRST TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR RIGHT THIS RPECT, BEE YOU HAVENEVER GIVEN ME A REASON TO HAVE TO NY YOU ANYTHG. I ONLY WANT TOWARN YOU THAT EVEN THE BT N DO ONE HARM WHEN ONE ISN'T RIPEENOUGH YEARS TO RECEIVE PROPERLY.----I WOULD RATHER PUT MYTST YOU THAN NVENTNAL TNAL METHODS.----IF YOU NEEDANYTHG, CHILDREN, YOU, MELCHR, E UP AND LL ME. I SHALL BE MY BEDROOM.(_EX._)MORITZ.YOUR MAMMA MEANS THE STORY OF GRETCHEN.MELCHIOR.WEREN'T WE DISCSG JT A MOMENT AGO!MORITZ.FST HIMSELF NNOT HAVE SERTED HER LD BLOOD!MELCHIOR.THE MASTERPIECE DO NOT END WH THIS FAMO ACTN!----FSTMIGHT HAVE PROMISED THE MAIN MARRIAGE, HE MIGHT HAVE FORSAKEN HERAFTERWARDS, BUT MY EY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN NOT A HAIR LS WORTHYOF PUNISHMENT. GRETCHEN MIGHT HAVE DIED OF A BROKEN HEART FOR ALL IRE.----ONE SE HOW THIS ATTRACTS THE EY NTUALLY; ONE MIGHTTHK THAT THE WHOLE WORLD TURNED ON SEX![2]MORITZ.TO BE ANK WH YOU, MELCHR, I HAVE ALMOST THE SAME FEELG SCEI READ YOUR EXPLANATN.----IT FELL AT MY FEET DURG THE FIRSTVATN DAYS. I WAS STARTLED. I FASTENED THE DOOR AND FLEW THROUGHTHE FLAMG L AS A IGHTENED OWL FLI THROUGH A BURNGWOOD----I BELIEVE I READ MOST OF WH MY EY SHUT. YOUREXPLANATN BROUGHT UP A HOST OF DIM RELLECTNS, WHICH AFFECTED MEAS A SONG OF HIS CHILDHOOD AFFECTS A MAN ON HIS ATHBED WHEN HEARDOM THE LIPS OF ANOTHER. I FELT THE MOST VEHEMENT PY OVER WHAT YOUWROTE ABOUT MAINS. I SHALL NEVER LOSE THAT SENSATN. BELIEVE ME,MELCHR, TO SUFFER A WRONG IS SWEETER THAN TO DO A WRONG. TO BEOVERE BY SUCH A SWEET WRONG AND STILL BE BLAMELS SEEMS TO ME THEFULLNS OF EARTHLY BLISS.MELCHIOR.I DON'T WANT MY BLISS AS ALMS!MORITZ.BUT WHY NOT?MELCHIOR.I DON'T WANT ANYTHG FOR WHICH I DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT!MORITZ.IS ENJOYABLE THEN, MELCHR?----THE MAIN'S ENJOYMENT IS AS THATOF THE HOLY GODS. THE MAIN NTROLS HERSELF, THANKS TO HERSELF-NIAL. SHE KEEPS HERSELF EE OM EVERY BTERNS UNTIL THELAST MOMENT, ORR THAT SHE MAY SEE THE HEAVENS OPEN OVER HER AN STANT. THE MAIN FEARS HELL EVEN AT THE MOMENT THAT SHEPERCEIV A BLOOMG PARADISE. HER FEELG IS AS PURE AS A MOUNTASPRG. THE MAIN HOLDS A CUP OVER WHICH NO EARTHLY BREATH HAS BLOWNAS YET; A NECTAR CHALICE, THE NTENTS OF WHICH IS SPILLED WHEN FLAM AND FLAR.----THE ENJOYMENT THAT THE MAN FDS THAT, ITHK, IS SIPID AND FLAT.MELCHIOR.YOU N THK WHAT YOU LIKE ABOUT , BUT KEEP YOUR THOUGHTS TOYOURSELF----I DON'T LIKE TO THK ABOUT .SCENE SECOND._A DWELLG ROOM._FRAU BERGMANN.(_ENTERS BY THE CENTER DOOR. HER FACE IS BEAMG. SHE IS WHOUT AHAT, WEARS A MANTILLA ON HER HEAD AND HAS A BASKET ON HER ARM._)WENDLA! WENDLA!WENDLA.(_APPEARS PETTIATS AND RSET THE DOORWAY TO THE RIGHT._)WHAT'S THE MATTER, MOTHER?FRAU BERGMANN.YOU ARE UP ALREADY, CHILD? NOW, THAT IS NICE OF YOU!WENDLA.YOU HAVE BEEN OUT ALREADY?FRAU BERGMANN.GET DRSED QUICKLY!----YOU MT GO DOWN TO INA'S AT ONCE. YOU MTTAKE HER THIS BASKET!WENDLA.(_DRSG HERSELF DURG THE FOLLOWG NVERSATN._)YOU HAVE BEEN TO INA'S?--HOW IS INA?--IS SHE EVER GOG TO GETBETTER?FRAU BERGMANN.ONLY THK, WENDLA, LAST NIGHT THE STORK PAID HER A VIS AND BROUGHTHER A LTLE BABY BOY!WENDLA.A LTLE BOY?----A LTLE BOY!----OH, THAT'S LOVELY!----THAT'S THEE OF THAT TED FLUENZA!FRAU BERGMANN.A FE LTLE BOY!WENDLA.I MT SEE HIM, MOTHER. THAT MAK ME AN NT FOR THE THIRDTIME----NT TO A LTLE GIRL AND TWO LTLE BOYS!FRAU BERGMANN.AND WHAT LTLE BOYS!----IT ALWAYS HAPPENS THAT WAY WHEN ONE LIV SONEAR THE CHURCH ROOF!----TO-MORROW WILL BE JT TWO YEARS SCE SHEWENT UP THE STEPS HER MULL GOWN.WENDLA.WERE YOU THERE WHEN HE BROUGHT HIM?FRAU BERGMANN.HE HAD JT FLOWN AWAY AGA.----WON'T YOU PUT ON A ROSE?WENDLA.WHY ULDN'T YOU HAVE BEEN A LTLE EARLIER, MOTHER?FRAU BERGMANN.I ALMOST BELIEVE HE BROUGHT YOU SOMETHG, TOO----A BREASTP ORSOMETHG.WENDLA.IT'S REALLY A SHAME!FRAU BERGMANN.BUT, I TELL YOU, HE BROUGHT YOU A BREASTP!WENDLA.I HAVE BREASTPS ENOUGH----FRAU BERGMANN.THEN BE HAPPY, CHILD. WHAT DO YOU WANT BIS?WENDLA.I WOULD HAVE LIKED SO MUCH TO HAVE KNOWN WHETHER HE FLEW THROUGH THEWDOW OR DOWN THE CHIMNEY.FRAU BERGMANN.YOU MT ASK INA. HA! YOU MT ASK INA THAT, AR HEART! INA WILLTELL YOU THAT FAST ENOUGH. INA TALKED WH HIM FOR A WHOLE HALF HOUR.WENDLA.I WILL ASK INA WHEN I GET THERE.FRAU BERGMANN.NOW DON'T FET, SWEET ANGEL! I'M TERTED MYSELF TO KNOW IF HEME THROUGH THE WDOW OR BY THE CHIMNEY.WENDLA.OR HADN'T I BETTER ASK THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP?----THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP MTKNOW BT WHETHER HE FLEW DOWN THE CHIMNEY OR NOT.FRAU BERGMANN.NOT THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP, CHILD; NOT THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP. WHAT DO THECHIMNEY-SWEEP KNOW ABOUT THE STORK! HE'D TELL YOU A LOT OFFOOLISHNS HE DIDN'T BELIEVE HIMSELF----WHA----WHAT ARE YOU STARGAT DOWN THERE THE STREET?WENDLA.A MAN, MOTHER,----THREE TIM AS BIG AS AN OX!----WH FEET LIKTEAMBOATS----!FRAU BERGMANN.(_RHG TO THE WDOW._)IMPOSSIBLE! IMPOSSIBLE!WENDLA.(_AT THE SAME TIME._)HE HOLDS A BEDSLAT UNR HIS CH AND FIDDL “DIE WACHT AM RHE” ON----THERE, HE'S JT TURNED THE RNER.----FRAU BERGMANN.YOU ARE, AND ALWAYS WILL BE A FOOLISH CHILD!----TO IGHTEN YOUR OLDSIMPLE MOTHER THAT WAY!----GO GET YOUR HAT! I WONR WHEN YOU WILLUNRSTAND THGS. I'VE GIVEN UP HOPE OF YOU.WENDLA.SO HAVE I, MOTHER AR, SO HAVE I. IT'S A SAD THG ABOUT MYUNRSTANDG.----I HAVE A SISTER WHO HAS BEEN MARRIED FOR TWO AND AHALF YEARS, I MYSELF HAVE BEEN MA AN NT FOR THE THIRD TIME, AND IHAVEN'T THE LEAST IA HOW ALL ABOUT.----DON'T BE CROSS,MOTHER AR, DON'T BE CROSS! WHOM THE WORLD SHOULD I ASK BUT YOU!PLEASE TELL ME, AR MOTHER! TELL ME, AR MOTHER! I'M ASHAMED FORMYSELF. PLEASE, MOTHER, SPEAK! DON'T SLD ME FOR ASKG YOU ABOUT. GIVE ME AN ANSWER----HOW DO HAPPEN?----HOW DO ALL EABOUT?----YOU NNOT REALLY CEIVE YOURSELF THAT I, WHO AM FOURTEENYEARS OLD, STILL BELIEVE THE STORK.FRAU BERGMANN.GOOD. LORD, CHILD, BUT YOU ARE PECULIAR!----WHAT IAS YOU HAVE!----IREALLY N'T DO THAT!WENDLA.BUT WHY NOT, MOTHER?----WHY NOT?----IT N'T BE ANYTHG UGLY IFEVERYBODY IS LIGHTED OVER !FRAU BERGMANN.O----O GOD PROTECT ME!----I SERVE----GO GET DRSED, CHILD, GO GETDRSED!WENDLA.I'LL GO----AND SUPPOSE YOUR CHILD WENT AND ASKED THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP?FRAU BERGMANN.BUT THAT WOULD BE MADNS!----COME HERE, CHILD, E HERE, I'LL TELLYOU! I'LL TELL YOU EVERYTHG----O ALMIGHTY GOODNS!----ONLY NOTTO-DAY, WENDLA!----TO-MORROW, THE NEXT DAY, NEXT WEEK----ANY TIME YOUWANT, AR HEART----WENDLA.TELL ME TO-DAY, MOTHER; TELL ME NOW! RIGHT AWAY!----NOW THAT I HAVEEN YOU SO IGHTENED I N NEVER BE PEACEFUL UNTIL YOU DO.FRAU BERGMANN.I N'T DO , WENDLA.WENDLA.OH, WHY N'T YOU, MOTHER AR!----I WILL KNEEL HERE AT YOUR FEET ANDLAY MY HEAD YOUR LAP. YOU N VER MY HEAD WH YOUR APRON ANDTALK AND TALK, AS IF YOU WERE ENTIRELY ALONE THE ROOM. I WON'TMOVE, I WON'T CRY, I WILL BEAR ALL PATIENTLY, NO MATTER WHAT MAYE.FRAU BERGMANN.HEAVEN KNOWS, WENDLA, THAT I AM NOT TO BLAME! HEAVEN KNOWS!----COME HERE GOD'S NAME! I WILL TELL YOU, CHILD, HOW YOU METO THIS WORLD.----LISTEN TO ME, WENDLA.----WENDLA.(_UNR THE APRON._)I'M LISTENG.FRAU BERGMANN.(_EXTATILLY._)BUT 'S NO E, CHILD!----I N'T JTIFY . I SERVE TO BE PUTTO PRISON----TO HAVE YOU TAKEN OM ME.WENDLA.TAKE HEART, MOTHER!FRAU BERGMANN.LISTEN, THEN----!WENDLA.(_TREMBLG UNR THE APRON._)O GOD! O GOD!FRAU BERGMANN.IN ORR TO HAVE A CHILD----DO YOU UNRSTAND ME, WENDLA?WENDLA.QUICK, MOTHER, I N'T STAND MUCH LONGER.FRAU BERGMANN.IN ORR TO HAVE A CHILD----ONE MT LOVE--THE MAN--TO WHOM ONE ISMARRIED--LOVE HIM, I TELL YOU--AS ONE N ONLY LOVE A MAN! ONE MTLOVE HIM SO MUCH WH ONE'S WHOLE HEART, SO--SO THAT ONE N'TSCRIBE ! ONE MT LOVE HIM, WENDLA, AS YOU AT YOUR AGE ARE STILLUNABLE TO LOVE----NOW YOU KNOW !WENDLA.(_GETTG UP._)GREAT----GOD---- HEAVEN!FRAU BERGMANN.NOW YOU KNOW WHAT AN ORAL AWAS YOU!WENDLA.AND THAT IS ALL?FRAU BERGMANN.AS TE AS GOD HELPS ME!----TAKE YOUR BASKET NOW AND GO TO INA. YOUWILL GET CHOLATE AND K THERE.----COME, LET'S LOOK YOU OVER, THELACED SHO, THE SILK GLOV, THE SAILOR BLOE, THE ROSE YOURHAIR--YOUR DRS IS REALLY BEG MUCH TOO SHORT FOR YOU, WENDLA!WENDLA.DID YOU GET MEAT FOR LUNCH, MOTHER?FRAU BERGMANN.THE GOOD GOD PROTECT AND BLS YOU----I WILL FD AN OPPORTUNY TOADD A HANDBREADTH OF FLOUNC TO THE BOTTOM.SCENE THIRD.HANS RILOW.(_WH A LIGHT HIS HAND, FASTENS THE DOOR BEHD HIM AND OPENSTHE LID._)“HAVE YOU PRAYED TO-NIGHT, DMONA?” (_HE TAK A REPRODUCTN OFTHE VEN OF PALMA VECCH OM HIS BOSOM._)----THOU WILT NOT APPEARTO ME AFTER THE OUR FATHER, DARLG,----AS THAT MOMENT OFANTICIPATED BLISS WHEN I SAW THEE NTEMPLATIVELY EXPECTANT OFSOMEONE'S G, LYG JONATHAN SCHLGER'S SHOP WDOW----JTAS ENTICG AS THOU ART NOW, WH THE SUPPLE LIMBS, THE SOFTLYARCHED HIPS, THE PLUMP, YOUTHFUL BREASTS.----OH HOW TOXITEDWH JOY THE GREAT MASTER MT HAVE BEEN WHEN HIS GLANCE STRAYED OVERTHE FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD ORIGAL STRETCHED OUT UPON THE DIVAN!WILT THOU NOT VIS ME FOR AWHILE MY DREAMS? I WILL RECEIVE THEEWH WILY OPEN ARMS AND WILL KISS THEE UNTIL THOU ART BREATHLS.THOU DRAWT ME ONWARD AS THE ENCHANTED PRCS HER SERTEDSTLE. PORTALS AND DOORS OPEN THEMSELV AS IF BY AN UNSEEN HAND,WHILE THE FOUNTA THE PARK BELOW BEGS TO SPLASH JOYOLY----“IT IS THE E!----IT IS THE E!” THE IGHTFUL BEATG MYBREAST SHOWS THEE THAT I DO NOT MURR THEE OM IVOLO EMOTN.THE THOUGHT OF MY LONELY NIGHTS IS STRANGLG ME. I SWEAR TO THEE,CHILD, ON MY SOUL, THAT IS NOT SATIETY WHICH L ME. WHO ULVER BOAST OF BEG SATIATED OF THEE!BUT THOU SUCKT THE MARROW OM MY BON, THOU BENST MY BACK, THOUROBBT MY YOUTHFUL EY OF THEIR LAST SPARK OF BRILLIANCY.----THOUART SO ARROGANT TOWARD ME THY HUMAN MOSTY, SO GALLG WH THYIMMOVABLE LIMBS!----THOU OR I! AND I HAVE WON THE VICTORY.SUPPOSE I UNT THEM----ALL THOSE WHO SLEEP, WH WHOM I HAVE FOUGHTTHE SAME BATTLE HERE----: PSYCHE BY THUMANN--ANOTHER BEQUT OM THPDLE-SHANKED MAMOISELLE ANGELIQUE, THAT RATTLNAKE THEPARADISE OF MY CHILDHOOD; IO BY CORREG; GALATHEA BY LOSSOW; THEN ACUPID BY BOUGUERE; ADA BY J. VAN BEERS--THAT ADA WHOM I HAD TOABDUCT OM A SECRET DRAWER PAPA'S SECRETARY ORR TORPORATE MY HAREM; A TREMBLG, MOST LEDA BY MAKART, WHOM IFOUND BY CHANCE AMONG MY BROTHER'S LLEGE BOOKS----SEVEN, THOUBLOOMG NDIDATE FOR ATH, HAVE PRECED THEE UPON THIS PATH TOTARTAS. LET THAT BE A NSOLATN UNTO THEE, AND SEEK NOT TOCREASE MY TORMENTS AT THIS ENORMY BY THAT FLEETG LOOK.THOU DIT NOT FOR THY SS, THOU DIT ON ACUNT OF ME!----ASPROTECTN AGAST MYSELF I GO TO MY SEVENTH WIFE-MURR WH ABLEEDG HEART. THERE IS SOMETHG TRAGIC THE RôLE OF BLUEBEARD. IBELIEVE THE BED SUFFERGS OF HIS MURRED WIV DID NOT EQUALTHE TORMENTS HE UNRWENT EACH TIME HE STRANGLED ONE OF THEM.BUT MY THOUGHTS WILL BEE MORE PEACEFUL, MY BODY WILL STRENGTHENSELF, WHEN THOU, THOU LTLE VIL, RIST NO LONGER THE REDSAT PADDG OF MY JEWEL SE. IN PLACE OF THEE, I WILL DULGE WANTON JOYONS WH BONHSEN'S LURLEI OR LGER'S FORSAKEN ONE,OR DEEGGER'S LONI--SO I SHOULD BE ALL THE QUICKER! BUT A QUARTER OFA YEAR MORE, PERHAPS THY UNVEILED CHARMS, SWEET SOUL, WOULD BEG TONSUME MY POOR HEAD AS THE SUN DO A PAT OF BUTTER. IT IS HIGH TIMETO CLARE THE DIVORCE OM BED AND BOARD.BRRR! I FEEL A HELGABL WH ME? MORURA ME SALUTAT! MAIN,MAIN, WHY DOST THOU PRS THY KNE TOGETHER?----WHY NOW OF ALLTIM?----IN FACE OF THE SCTABLE ETERNY?----A MOVEMENT AND IWILL SPARE THY LIFE!----A WOMANLY EMOTN, A SIGN OF PASSN, OFSYMPATHY, MAIN!----I WILL AME THEE GOLD, AND HANG THEE OVER MYBED! DOT THOU NOT GUS THAT ONLY THY CHASTY BEGETS MYBCHERY?----WOE, WOE, UNTO THE HUMAN ON!----ONE ALWAYS PERCEIV THAT THEY RECEIVED AN EXEMPLARY TN----ITIS JT SO WH ME.“HAVE YOU PRAYED TO-NIGHT, DMONA?”MY HEART NTRACTS,----MADNS!----ST. AGN ALSO DIED FOR HERRERVE AND WAS NOT HALF AS NAKED AS THOU!----ANOTHER KISS UPON THYBLOOMG BODY----UPON THY CHILDISH SWELLG BREAST--UPON THY SWEETLYROUND--THY CEL KNE----“IT IS THE E, IS THE E, MY SOUL, LET ME NOT NAME TOYOU, YOU CHASTE STARS! IT IS THE E!”----(_THE PICTURE FALLS TO THE PTHS, HE SHUTS THE LID._)FOURTH SCENE._A HAYMOW. MELCHR LI ON HIS BACK THE H HAY. WENDLA UP THE LADR._WENDLA.HERE'S WHERE YOU'VE HID YOURSELF?----THEY'RE ALL HUNTG FOR YOU. THEWAGON IS OUTSI AGA. YOU MT HELP. THERE'S A STORM G UP.MELCHIOR.GO AWAY OM ME! GO AWAY OM ME!WENDLA.WHAT'S THE MATTER WH YOU?----WHY ARE YOU HIDG YOUR FACE?MELCHIOR.OUT! OUT! I'LL THROW YOU DOWN ON THE FLOOR BELOW.WENDLA.NOW FOR CERTA I'M NOT GOG.--(_KNEELS DOWN BY HIM._) WHY WON'T YOUE OUT WH ME TO THE MEADOW, MELCHR?----HERE IS HOT ANDDARK. SUPPOSE WE DO GET WET TO THE SK, WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL THATMAKE TO !MELCHIOR.THE HAY SMELLS SO FE.----THE SKY OUTSI MT BE AS BLACK AS APALL----I ONLY SEE THE BRILLIANT POPPY ON YOUR BREAST----AND I HEARYOUR HEART BEATG----WENDLA.DON'T KISS ME, MELCHR!----DON'T KISS ME!MELCHIOR.YOUR HEART----I HEAR BEATG----WENDLA.PEOPLE LOVE----WHEN THEY KISS----DON'T, DON'T!MELCHIOR.OH, BELIEVE ME, THERE'S NO SUCH THG AS LOVE! EVERYTHG ISSELFISHNS, EVERYTHG IS EGOTISM!----I LOVE YOU AS LTLE AS YOULOVE ME.WENDLA.DON'T----DON'T, MELCHR!----MELCHIOR.WENDLA!WENDLA.OH, MELCHR!----DON'T, DON'T----FIFTH SCENE.FRAU GABOR.(_SS WRG._)_DEAR HERR STIEFEL_:--AFTER TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF NSIRATN ANDRENSIRATN OF ALL YOU HAVE WRTEN ME, I TAKE UP MY PEN WH AHEAVY HEART. I NNOT FURNISH YOU WH THE NECSARY AMOUNT FOR THEVOYAGE TO AMERI--I GIVE YOU MY WORD OF HONOR. IN THE FIRST PLACE, IHAVE NOT THAT MUCH TO MY CRED, AND THE SEND PLACE, IF I HAD, WOULD BE THE GREATT S IMAGABLE FOR ME TO PUT TO YOUR HANDSTHE MEANS OF ACPLISHG SUCH AN ILL-NSIRED MEASURE. YOU WILLBE DOG ME A BTER WRONG, HERR STIEFEL, IF YOU SEE A SIGN OF LACKOF LOVE MY REFAL. ON THE NTRARY, WOULD BE THE GREATTNEGLECT OF MY DUTY AS YOUR MOTHERLY IEND WERE I TO ALLOW MYSELF TOBE AFFECTED BY YOUR TEMPORARY LACK OF TERMATN, SO THAT I ALSOLOST MY HEAD AND BLDLY FOLLOWED MY FIRST FLEETG IMPULSE. I AMVERY READY-- SE YOU SIRE --TO WRE TO YOUR PARENTS. I SHOULDSEEK TO NVCE YOUR PARENTS THAT YOU HAVE DONE WHAT YOU ULDDURG THIS QUARTER, THAT YOU HAVE EXHSTED YOUR STRENGTH, THAT ARIGORO JUDGMENT OF YOUR SE WOULD NOT ONLY BE ADVISABLE, BUTMIGHT BE THE GREATT GREE PREJUDICIAL TO YOUR MENTAL AND BODILYHEALTH.THAT YOU IMPLY A THREAT TO TAKE YOUR OWN LIFE SE FLIGHT ISIMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU, TO SPEAK PLALY, HAS SOMEWHAT SURPRISED ME. NOMATTER HOW UNSERVG IS A MISFORTUNE, HERR STIEFEL, ONE SHOULDNEVER CHOOSE IMPROPER MEANS TO PE . THE WAY WHICH YOU, TOWHOM I HAVE ALWAYS DONE ONLY GOOD, WANT TO MAKE ME RPONSIBLE FOR APOSSIBLE IGHTFUL ACTN ON YOUR PART, HAS SOMETHG ABOUT WHICH, THE EY OF AN EVIL-THKG PERSON, MIGHT BE MISNSTED VERYEASILY. I MT NFS THAT THIS OUTBREAK OF YOURS--YOU WHO KNOW SOWELL WHAT ONE OW TO ONELF--IS THE LAST THG FOR WHICH I WASPREPARED. HOWEVER, I CHERISH THE STRONG NVICTN THAT YOU ARELABORG YET TOO MUCH UNR THE SHOCK OF YOUR FIRST IGHT TO BE ABLETO UNRSTAND PLETELY YOUR ACTN.AND, THEREFORE, I HOPE WH NFINCE THAT THE WORDS OF ME WILLFD YOU ALREADY BETTER SPIRS. TAKE UP THE MATTER AS STANDS.IN MY OPN IS UNWISE TO JUDGE A YOUNG MAN BY HIS SCHOOL RERD.WE HAVE TOO MANY EXAMPL OF BAD STUNTS BEG DISTGUISHED MEN,AND, ON THE OTHER HAND, OF BRILLIANT STUNTS NOT BEG AT ALLREMARKABLE LIFE. AT ANY RATE, I N ASSURE YOU THAT YOURMISFORTUNE, AS FAR AS LI WH ME, SHALL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE YOUR ASSOCIATN WH MELCHR. ON THE NTRARY, WILL AFFORD METHE GREATT PLEASURE TO SEE MY SON GOG WH A YOUNG MAN WHO, LETTHE WORLD JUDGE HIM AS WILL, IS ABLE TO W MY FULLT SYMPATHY.AND, THEREFORE, HOLD YOUR HEAD HIGH, HERR STIEFEL!----SUCH A CRISISAS THIS TO ALL OF AND WILL SOON BE SURMOUNTED. IF ALL OF HAD REURSE TO DAGGER OR POISON SUCH S, THERE WOULD SOON BENO MEN LEFT THE WORLD. LET ME HEAR OM YOU RIGHT SOON AGA, ANDACCEPT THE HEARTFELT GREETGS OF YOUR UNCHANGEDMOTHERLY IEND,FANNY G.SCENE SIXTH._BERGMANN'S GARN THE MORNG SUNLIGHT._WENDLA.WHY HAVE YOU SLIPPED OUT OF THE ROOM?----TO HUNT VLETS!----BEEMOTHER SEEMS TO LGH AT ME.----WHY N'T YOU BRG YOUR LIPSTOGETHER ANY MORE?----I DON'T KNOW.----INED I DON'T KNOW, I N'TFD WORDS----THE PATH IS LIKE A VELVET RPET, NO PEBBL, NOTHORNS.----MY FEET DON'T TOUCH THE GROUND.----OH, HOW I SLEPT LASTNIGHT!HERE THEY ARE.----I BEE AS GRAVE AS A NUN AT MUNN.----SWEETVLETS!----PEACE, LTLE MOTHER, I WILL PUT ON MY LONG DRS.----OHGOD, IF SOMEBODY WOULD E UPON WHOSE NECK I ULD FALL AND TELL!SCENE SEVEN._EVENG TWILIGHT. LIGHT CLOUDS THE SKY. THE PATH STRAGGLTHROUGH LOW BH AND ARSE GRASS. THE FLOW OF THE STREAM ISHEARD THE DISTANCE._MORITZ.BETTER AND BETTER.----I AM NOT F. ANOTHER MAY BE ABLE TO CLIMB TOTHE TOP. I PULL THE DOOR TO BEHD ME AND STEP TO THE OPEN.----IDON'T RE ENOUGH ABOUT TO LET MYSELF BE TURNED BACK.I HAVEN'T SUCCEED FORCG MY WAY. HOW SHALL I FORCE MY WAYNOW!----I HAVE NO NTRACT WH GOD. LET THEM MAKE OUT OF THE THGWHAT THEY WILL. I HAVE BEEN FORCED.----I DO NOT HOLD MY PARENTSANSWERABLE. AT THE SAME TIME, THE WORST MT FALL UPON THEM. THEYWERE OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOG. I WAS A WEAKLG WHEN IME TO THE WORLD----OR ELSE I WOULD HAVE BEEN WISE ENOUGH TOBEE ANOTHER BEG. WHY SHOULD I BE FORCED TO PAY FOR THE FACT THATTHE OTHERS WERE HERE ALREADY!I MT HAVE FALLEN ON MY HEAD----IF ANYBODY MAK ME A PRENT OF AMAD DOG I'LL GIVE HIM BACK A MAD DOG. AND IF HE WON'T TAKE BACK HISMAD DOG, THEN I AM HUMAN AND----I MT HAVE FALLEN ON MY HEAD!MAN IS BORN BY CHANCE AND SHOULD NOT, AFTER MATURENSIRATN----IT IS TO SHOOT ONELF AD!THE WEATHER AT LEAST HAS SHOWN SELF NSIRATE. THE WHOLE DAY LOOKED LIKE RA AND YET HAS HELD OFF.----A RARE PEACE L NATURE. NOWHERE ANYTHG DAZZLG, EXCG. HEAVEN AND EARTH ARELIKE A TRANSPARENT FABRIC. AND EVERYTHG SEEMS SO HAPPY. THELANDSPE IS AS SWEET AS THE MELODY OF A LULLABY.----“SLEEP, LTLEPRCE, SLEEP ON,” AS FRäULE SNANDULIA SANG. IT'S A SHAME SHE HOLDSHER ELBOWS SO AWKWARDLY!----I DANCED FOR THE LAST TIME AT THECäCILIENFT. SNANDULIA ONLY DANC WH GOOD MATCH.----HER SILKDRS WAS CUT LOW ONT AND THE BACK. IN THE BACK, DOWN TO HERGIRDLE AND THE ONT DOWN----UNNSCNABLY LOW.----SHE ULDN'THAVE WORN A CHEMISE.------THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHG ABLE TO AFFECT MEYET.----MORE THAN HALF CURSY.----IT MT BE A WONRFULSENSATN----A FEELG AS IF ONE WERE BEG RRIED THROUGH THERAPIDS----I SHOULD NEVER TELL ANYBODY THAT I WAS EXPERIENCGSOMETHG UNTRIED BEFORE----I WOULD ACT AS IF I HAD DONE ALL.--THERE IS SOMETHG SHAMEFUL GROWG UP TO BE A MAN WHOUTHAVG LEARNED THE CHIEF FUNCTN OF MASCULY.----YOU E OMEGYPT, HONORABLE SIR, AND HAVE NOT SEEN THE PYRAMIDS?!I WILL NOT CRY AGA TO-DAY. I WILL NOT THK OF MY BURIALAGA.----MELCHR WILL LAY A WREATH ON MY FF. PASTOR KAHLBCHWILL NSOLE MY PARENTS. RECTOR SONNENSTICH WILL CE EXAMPL OMHISTORY.----IT IS POSSIBLE THAT I SHALL NOT HAVE A TOMBSTONE.I HAD WANTED A SNOW-WHE MARBLE URN ON A PESTAL OF BLACKSYENE.----THANK GOD, I SHALL NOT MISS THEM. MONUMENTS ARE FOR THELIVG, NOT FOR THE AD.I SHOULD NEED A WHOLE YEAR TO SAY FAREWELL TO EVERYTHG MYTHOUGHTS. I WILL NOT CRY AGA. I AM SO HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO LOOK BACKWHOUT BTERNS. HOW MANY BETIFUL EVENGS I HAVE PASSED WHMELCHR!----UNR THE OSIERS; AT THE FORTER'S HOE; ON THEHIGHWAY WHERE THE FIVE LNS STAND; ON THE SCHLOSSBERG, AMONG THERTFUL S OF THE RUNENBURG.----WHEN THE HOUR , I WILL THKWH ALL MY MIGHT OF WHIPPED CREAM. WHIPPED CREAM DON'T STAY FIRM.IT FALLS AND LEAV A PLEASANT AFTER-TASTE.----I HAD THOUGHT MEN WEREFELY WORSE. I HAVEN'T FOUND ONE WHO DIDN'T WANT TO DO HIS BT.MANY HAVE SUFFERED WH ME ON MY OWN ACUNT.I WANR TO THE ALTAR LIKE THE ANCIENT ETRIAN YOUTH WHOSE DYGRATTLE BOUGHT HIS BROTHERS' PROSPERY FOR THE G YEAR.----IEXPERIENCE B BY B THE MYSTER AWE OF LIBERATN. I SOB WHSORROW OVER MY LOT.----LIFE HAS TURNED S LD SHOULR TO ME. I SEEEARNT, IENDLY GLANC LURG ME THERE THE DISTANCE, THEHEADLS QUEEN, THE HEADLS QUEEN--PASSN AWAG ME WH OPENARMS----YOUR MANDS NCERN MORS; I RRY MY EE TICKET MYSELF. IF THE SHELL SKS, THE BUTTERFLY FLS OM ; THE LNNO LONGER HOLDS.----YOU SHOULD DRIVE NO MAD BARGA WH THE SWDLE!THE MISTS CLOSE ; LIFE IS BTER ON THE TONGUE.ILSE.(_IN TORN CLOTHG, A BRIGHT CLOTH ABOUT HER HEAD, GRABS HIM BY THHOULR OM BEHD._)WHAT HAVE YOU LOST?MORITZ.ILSE!ILSE.WHAT ARE YOU HUNTG HERE?MORITZ.WHY DID YOU IGHTEN ME SO?ILSE.WHAT ARE YOU HUNTG?----WHAT HAVE YOU LOST?MORITZ.WHY DID YOU IGHTEN ME SO FEARFULLY?ILSE.I'M G OM TOWN.----I'M GOG HOME.MORITZ.I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'VE LOST.ILSE.THEN SEEKG WON'T HELP YOU.MORITZ.SAKERMENT, SAKERMENT!ILSE.I HAVEN'T BEEN HOME FOR FOUR DAYS.MORITZ.RTLS AS A T!ILSE.BEE I HAVE ON MY DANCG SLIPPERS----MOTHER WILL MAKEEY!----COME TO OUR HOE WH ME!MORITZ.WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN STROLLG AGA?ILSE.WH THE PRIAPIA!MORITZ.PRIAPIA?ILSE.WH NOHL, WH FEHRENDORF, WH PADSKY, WH LENZ, RANK,SPüHLER--WH ALL OF THEM POSSIBLE! KLG, KLG----THGS WERELIVELY!MORITZ.DO THEY PAT YOU?ILSE.FEHRENDORF PATED ME AS A PILLAR SAT. I AM STANDG ON ACORTHIAN PAL. FEHRENDORF, I TELL YOU, IS A GIBBERG IDT. THELAST TIME, I TROD ON ONE OF HIS TUB. HE WIPED HIS BSH ON MY HAIR.I FETCHED HIM A BOX ON THE EAR. HE THREW HIS PALETTE AT MY HEAD. IUPSET THE EASEL. HE CHASED ME ALL ABOUT THE STUD, OVER DIVANS,TABL AND CHAIRS, WH HIS MAHLSTICK. BEHD THE STOVE STOOD ASKETCH;----BE GOOD OR I'LL TEAR ! HE SWORE AMNTY, AND--AND THENKISSED ME PROMPTLY AND IGHTFULLY, IGHTFULLY, I TELL YOU.MORITZ.WHERE DO YOU SPEND THE NIGHT WHEN YOU STOP TOWN?ILSE.YTERDAY WE WERE AT NOHL'S.----THE DAY BEFORE WHBOJOKEWSCH--SUNDAY WH OIKONOMOPULOS. WE HAD CHAMPAGNE ATPADSKY'S. VALABREGEZ HAD SOLD HIS “WOMAN DEAD OF THE PT.” ADOLARDRANK OUT OF THE ASH TRAY. LENZ SANG THE “CHILD'S MURRER,” ANDADOLAR POUND THE GUAR OUT OF SHAPE. I WAS SO DNK THEY HAD TOPUT ME TO BED.----DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL YET, MORZ?MORITZ.NO, NO,----I TAKE MY LEAVE OF THIS QUARTER.ILSE.YOU ARE RIGHT. AH, HOW TIME PASS WHEN ONE EARNS MONEY!----DO YOUREMEMBER HOW WE ED TO PLAY ROBBERS?----WENDLA BERGMANN AND YOU ANDI AND THE OTHERS, WHEN YOU ED TO E OUT THE EVENG AND DRKWARM GOAT'S K AT OUR HOE?----WHAT IS WENDLA DOG? I HAVEN'TSEEN HER SCE THE FLOOD----WHAT IS MELCHI GABOR DOG?----DO HEEM AS EP THKG AS EVER?----WE ED TO STAND OPPOSE EACHOTHER DURG SGG.MORITZ.HE PHILOSOPHIZ.ILSE.WENDLA ME TO SEE A WHILE AGO AND BROUGHT MOTHER SOME PRENTS. ISAT THAT DAY FOR ISIDOR LANDER. HE NEED ME FOR THE HOLY MARY, THEMOTHER OF GOD, WH THE CHRIST CHILD. HE IS A NNY AND DISAGREEABLE.HU, LIKE A WEATHERCK!----HAVE YOU A KATZENJAMMER?MORITZ.FROM LAST NIGHT!----WE SOAKED LIKE HIPPOPOTAMI. I STAGGERED HOME ATFIVE O'CLOCK.ILSE.ONE NEED ONLY TO LOOK AT YOU.----WERE THERE ANY GIRLS THERE?MORITZ.ARABELLA, THE BEER NYMPH, AN ANDALIAN. THE LANDLORD LET ALL OF SPEND THE WHOLE NIGHT ALONE WH HER.ILSE.ONE ONLY NEED LOOK AT YOU, MORZ!----I DON'T KNOW WHAT AKATZENJAMMER'S LIKE. DURG THE LAST RNIVAL I WENT THREE DAYS ANDTHREE NIGHTS WHOUT GOG TO BED OR TAKG MY CLOTH OFF. FROM THEBALL TO THE Fé, NOON AT BELLAVISTA; EVENGS, TGLE-TANGLE; NIGHT,TO THE BALL. LENA WAS THERE, AND THE FAT VLA.----THE THIRD NIGHTHERICH FOUND ME.MORITZ.HAD HE BEEN LOOKG FOR YOU?ILSE.HE TRIPPED OVER MY ARM. I LAY SENSELS THE SNOW THTREET.----THAT'S HOW I WENT WH HIM. FOR FOURTEEN DAYS I DIDN'TLEAVE HIS LODGGS----A DREADFUL TIME! IN THE MORNG I HAD TO THROWON HIS PERSIAN NIGHTGOWN AND THE EVENG GO ABOUT THE ROOM THE BLACK STUME OF A PAGE; WHE LACE FFL AT MY NECK, MYKNE AND MY WRISTS. EVERY DAY HE PHOTOGRAPHED ME SOME NEWARRANGEMENT----ONCE ON THE SOFA AS ARIADNE, ONCE AS LEDA, ONCE ASGANYME, ONCE ON ALL FOURS AS A FEME NEBUCHADNEZZAR. THEN HELONGED FOR MURR, FOR SHOOTG, SUICI AND AL GAS. EARLY THEMORNG HE BROUGHT A PISTOL TO BED, LOAD FULL OF SHOT AND PUT AGAST MY BREAST! A TWCH AND I'LL PULL!----OH, HE WOULD HAVEFIRED, MORZ, HE WOULD HAVE FIRED!----THEN HE PUT THE THG HIS MOUTH LIKE A BLOW-PIPE.----THAT AWOKE THE FEELG OFSELF-PRERVATN. AND THEN----BRRR!----THE SHOT MIGHT HAVE GOHROUGH MY SPE.MORITZ.IS HERICH LIVG YET?ILSE.HOW DO I KNOW!----OVER THE BED WAS A LARGE MIRROR SET TO THECEILG. THE ROOM SEEMED AS HIGH AS A TOWER AND AS BRIGHT AS AN OPERAHOE. ONE SAW ONE'S SELF HANGG DOWN BODILY OM HEAVEN. I HADIGHTFUL DREAMS AT NIGHT----O GOD, O GOD, IF WERE ONLYDAY!----GOOD-NIGHT, ILSE, WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP YOU WILL BE PRETTY TOMURR!MORITZ.IS THIS HERICH LIVG YET?ILSE.PLEASE GOD, NO!----ONE DAY, WHEN HE WENT FOR ABSTHE, I PUT ON THEMANTLE AND RAN OUT TO THE STREET. THE RNIVAL WAS OVER; THE POLICEARRTED ME; WHAT WAS I DOG MAN'S CLOTH?----THEY TOOK ME TOTHE CENTRAL STATN. NOHL, FEHRENDORF, PADSKY, SPüHLER,OIKONOMOPULOS, THE WHOLE PRIAPIA ME THERE AND BAILED ME OUT. THEYTRANSPORTED ME A B TO ADOLAR'S STUD. SCE THEN I'VE BEEN TETO THE HERD. FEHRENDORF IS AN APE, NOHL IS A PIG, BOJOKEWSCH ANOWL, LOISON A HYENA, OIKONOMOPULOS A MEL----THEREFORE I LOVE ONEAND ALL OF THEM THE SAME AND WOULDN'T ATTACH MYSELF TO ANYONE ELSE,EVEN IF THE WORLD WERE FULL OF ARCHANGELS AND LNAIR!MORITZ.I MT GO BACK, ILSE.ILSE.COME AS FAR AS OUR HOE WH ME!MORITZ.WHAT FOR?----WHAT FOR?----ILSE.TO DRK WARM GOAT'S K! I WILL SGE YOUR HAIR AND HANG A LTLEBELL AROUND YOUR NECK.----THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER KID WH WHICH YOU NPLAY.MORITZ.I MT GO BACK. I HAVE YET THE SASSANIS, THE SERMON ON THE MOUNTAND THE PARALLELEPIPEDON ON MY THOUGHTS.----GOOD-NIGHT, ILSE!ILSE.SLEEP WELL!----DO YOU EVER GO TO THE WIGWAM WHERE MELCHI GABOR BURIEDMY TOMAHAWK?----BRRR! UNTIL YOU ARE MARRIED I'LL LIE THE STRAW.(_RUNS OUT._)MORITZ.(_ALONE._)IT MIGHT HAVE ST ONLY A WORD.----(_HE LLS_)----ILSE?----ILSE!----THANK GOD SHE DON'T HEAR ME ANY MORE.----I AM NOT THEHUMOR.----ONE NEEDS A CLEAR HEAD AND A HAPPY HEART FOR .----WHAT ALOST OPPORTUNY!----I WOULD HAVE SAID THAT I HAD MANY CRYSTALMIRRORS OVER MY BED----THAT I HAD TRAED AN UNBROKEN FILLY----THATI HAD HER PROUDLY MARCH ONT OF ME ON THE RPET LONG BLACKSILK STOCKGS AND BLACK PATENT LEATHER SHO, LONG BLACK GLOV,BLACK VELVET ABOUT HER NECK----HAD STRANGLED HER A MOMENT OFMADNS WH MY CHNS. I WOULD LGH WHEN THE TALK TURNEDON PASSN----I WOULD CRY OUT!----CRY OUT!----CRY OUT! IT ISYOU, ILSE!----PRIAPIA!----LOSS OF MEMORY!----THAT TAK MYSTRENGTH!----THIS CHILD OF FORTUNE, THIS SUNNY CHILD----THIS JOYOMAIN ON MY DOLORO PATH!----O!----O!------ ---- ---- ---- -------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----(_IN THE BH BY THE BANK._)HAVE I FOUND AGA UNWILLGLY--THE SEAT OF TURF. THE MULLESSEEM TO HAVE GROWN SCE YTERDAY. THE OUTLOOK BETWEEN THE WILLOWSIS STILL THE SAME----THE WATER NS AS HEAVY AS MELTED LEAD. IMTN'T FET. (_HE TAK FR GABOR'S LETTER OM HIS POCKET ANDBURNS ._)----HOW THE SPARKS FLY--HERE AND THERE, DOWNWARD ANDUPWARD----SOULS!----SHOOTG STARS!BEFORE I STCK A LIGHT ONE ULD SEE THE GRASS AND A STREAK ON THEHORIZON.----NOW IS DARK. NOW I SHALL NEVER RETURN HOME AGA.EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (LYRIC) AND BOLD (LYRIC) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Apparently, some dience members – as well as a few theater dtry people – were upset by s e bee perpetuat the ia that the most hurtful thg kids n do is imply that one of their number is gay. (Among kids, “fag” don’t always mean “homosexual”; often means “lame” or “totally unol. Horn nfirmed that a lot of material was cut om the show durg previews to brg down to s current 90-mute length; he said he had received a list of suggtns of cuts and chang om var people volved the productn, but he sists was his own cisn to excise “fagmo” This led to an tertg discsn of homophobia and perceived homophobia.

LEA MICHELE SAYS SHE ONCE 'RNERED' JONATHAN GROFF AT A PARTY TO PROFS HER LOVE FOR HIM BEFORE REALIZG HE WAS GAY

Wright the origal Broadway st of Sprg AwakengBy way of parison, let’s take a look at the “gay scene” Sprg Awakeng, the ntemporary rock mil based on Frank Wekd’s late-19th century drama about cluels teenagers lt.

Q&A: JONATHAN GROFF ON HIS MOM SEEG HIM NAKED, HIS EMOTNAL ‘NORMAL HEART’ SCENE & GAY ANTHEM IN ‘FROZEN’

--Melchr and Morz on the I'm que gay aga, only a ltle b exced. We discsed the procs of creatg a character together, dience reactns, the siari between growg up af and gay, and even the adorable characteristics of sea otters.

I n yell at someone all day, I n talk wh them, I n bate wh them all week, all year--this show is allowg people to unrstand thgs that I've been tryg to expla my whole the the LGBT muny, 's been an uphill battle workg to make sure that trans and gay parts are beg played by trans and gay actors. I kept askg people, "Is he gay?

Stewart: I thk a lot of people growg up feel like they have to wear their straightns on their sleeve, make sure people know they're not gay, but I don't do that. But I will say, growg up, I kd of always knew I was gay, but I also always knew I was af.

JONATHAN GROFF SAYS HIS 'SPRG AWAKENG' CHARACTER GAVE HIM THE STRENGTH TO E OUT AS GAY

I would always tell people I was af, but not always that I was gay, I jt was.

So when I me out when I was eight, I was like, "If you n accept me beg af, then this perfect child image is already gone, so you n accept me beg gay. "It's tertg bee, af studi class, they talk about how af people and gay people have a very siar experience, bee af people are ually born to hearg parents, people who don't know sign, and gay people are ually born to straight parents, so they don't have nnectns wh their parents that way.

I've gotten a lot of letters om young people who are gay or transgenr or jt simply young, and they've said that this show has saved their liv. Lea Michele said she once "rnered" Jonathan Groff at a party to profs her love for him before realizg he was gay. Lea Michele once profsed her love for "Sprg Awakeng" star Jonathan Groff at a party, only to realize that he was gay.

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LEA MICHELE SAYS SHE ONCE 'RNERED' JONATHAN GROFF AT A PARTY TO PROFS HER LOVE FOR HIM BEFORE REALIZG HE WAS GAY

Q&A: JONATHAN GROFF ON HIS MOM SEEG HIM NAKED, HIS EMOTNAL ‘NORMAL HEART’ SCENE & GAY ANTHEM IN ‘FROZEN’

JONATHAN GROFF SAYS HIS 'SPRG AWAKENG' CHARACTER GAVE HIM THE STRENGTH TO E OUT AS GAY

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LEA MICHELE SAYS SHE ONCE 'RNERED' JONATHAN GROFF AT A PARTY TO PROFS HER LOVE FOR HIM BEFORE REALIZG HE WAS GAY

Q&A: JONATHAN GROFF ON HIS MOM SEEG HIM NAKED, HIS EMOTNAL ‘NORMAL HEART’ SCENE & GAY ANTHEM IN ‘FROZEN’

JONATHAN GROFF SAYS HIS 'SPRG AWAKENG' CHARACTER GAVE HIM THE STRENGTH TO E OUT AS GAY

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