Jonathan Groff said a new HBO Max documentary that he was "ashamed of who he was" before g out as gay 2008.
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- JONATHAN GROFF SAYS HIS 'SPRG AWAKENG' CHARACTER GAVE HIM THE STRENGTH TO E OUT AS GAY
- SPRG AWAKENG FOR THE GAY DRAMA "MRICE"
- GAY AWAKENG
JONATHAN GROFF SAYS HIS 'SPRG AWAKENG' CHARACTER GAVE HIM THE STRENGTH TO E OUT AS GAY
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SPRG AWAKENG FOR THE GAY DRAMA "MRICE"
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GAY AWAKENG
"He didn't say the word 'gay, '" she said the documentary. Where Those You’ve Known do succsfully tegrate the show’s velopment wh a personal story is Jonathan Groff’s journey to g out as gay.
In between stori about the anxiety of the closet, Groff and Michael Mayer, the director of the origal productn and the 2021 rnn, and a gay man himself, share the mutiae of choreographg Sprg’s timate, ntroversial sex scene at the end of Act 1. In s dictment of reprsive bourgeois mor, the play addrs topics that prevented om beg performed until 1906, cludg gay relatnships, masturbatn, suici, and rape. Wh fan letters pourg about how the show saved liv of those who felt alone their stggl, “Sprg Awakeng: Those You’ve Known” featur ndid terviews wh the st about how the show helped them learn more about themselv, whether ’s Groff, who me to accept the fact he was gay after growg up near the Amish muny Pennsylvania, or Michele, who fell love wh him only to realize wasn’t meant to be, and the soarg anthems such as “Don’t Do Sadns” and “The Bch of Livg” take on new ronance after learng all they went through.
What was your gay awakeng moment? Sprg Awakeng – the play and the mil – is a story about masturbatn, homosexualy, abortn, sadism, pedophilia, rape, and – all s bewilrg glory – sex self, the life force livered wh the power of the Niagara.