At the great anticipation of many [none] here's the dedicated post of just shit that happened surrounding Hanschen and Ernst in my production of Spring Awakening from 6+ months ago! (it was gonna be just the Vineyard Scene but I extended it)
If yall didn't figure it out from the last post I played Ernst.
There was a solid height difference between Hanschen and I, probably a foot give or take. Luckily I got to wear platform combat boots that gave me an extra 3-4inches in every scene except for the Vineyard!
If not for the chair, book, and chalkboard in our hands Hanschen would have dragged Ernst off the stage post BoL, that was the OG blocking 😮💨 curse props
I can't confirm which nights the voice crack was real with Ernst's "You will?!" in the study exchange
We stood directly off stage when the girls had the "Last one there has to hold hands with Hanschen!" And every night like clockwork we said: H-"Fucking bitch" E-"Sounds like I got last place" or something similar
In the scene where Moritz stole the test results, Hanschen and I were definitely seeing how much we could get away with in the background without the director telling us to quit it. So, a brief compilation of things we got away with: spent the entire scene most nights with his arm around my shoulder, one night it was a full hug from behind, I'd hit him for pointing out that it was only midterms and then we'd stick out our tounges at each other some nights (I know we did more during rehearsals, but of course the main recording that I'm rewatching we did nothing).
We would always end up with eachothers clothing, to a point where it became a joke in the cast. This at one point led to me yelling "[Hanschen] I have your Bisexual shorts!" And him yelling back "Oh good! I was looking for those since I already found my gay shorts"
During Guilty Ones the pastor made sure to make extra eye contact with the two of us since obviously we had sinned... (he also made sure to point at Hanschen at the point in the speech that asks if your body is pure which we all took as the pastor calling Hanschen a whore 🤣)
I know I said this in the last post but Hanschen gave me a flower to put on Moritz's grave every night instead of me having to get my own and it was really cute
The last half of Totally Fucked is just Hanschen and Ernst dancing in the corner among other things
And now, the long awaited Vineyard Scene
We did not wear shoes, just socks so the height difference was in full effect. Luckily for the kiss[es] we were sitting
We had to add extra time in between TF and the Vineyard Scene because of how long it took for us to get slightly undressed, take our shoes off, get behind the prop fence, lay down, and not fuck up the lights on the ground. Honestly the scene change itself was a production (luckily they were also moving a platform so we had a cover).
Melchior watched us the whole time from a platform like God
"Hanschen" and I have been friends through theater for a few years now and have a handful of mutual friends. As our scene happened on the edge of the stage for the most part, we made it our goal to have as many of our friends sit directly in front of us without knowing about what was going to happen as possible. By these friends we were told the scene was worse than anything between Melchior and Wendla!
We started the scene laying on the floor where people could only see our feet which gave the audience a jumpscare since we'd just pop up from behind a fence
Speaking of the fence: it was an Olympic event for me not to hit my head on the fence and Hanschen not to hit his head on our prop tree within the first 3 minutes of the scene
A good chunk of Hanschens monologue was spent with my head on his shoulder, just looking up at him. Very cute.
Dead eye contact as he sucked his fingers for "Skim off the cream" (peak acting on my part to withhold my physical cringe every night)
When we started the song he'd grab my face and essentially position if I was looking at him or leaning on him which was great until the one night where he slapped me
Before we added the kiss to the scene we would just play rock paper scissors during rehearsal until it was time for the lines to start
At the beginning of the rehearsal process the director had to tell us to calm down the kissing because we kept missing our cues
We definitely made Hanschen a little less in control in ours... and by that I mean after "Why not?" I [in the most PG terms] tackled Hanschen to the ground from how we were sitting for the 2nd kiss.
My notes in my script said "Mount that bitch" which still makes me laugh
There was one night that this kiss knocked my mic off my face completely so nobody heard me from that point on in the song
A list of responses we got from the scene:
An extremely loud whistle from an old man
An old woman gasped dramatically
Our mutual theater friend made eye contact with us after we kissed and mouthed "wtf"
A different friend punched me for making them go through that
Someone described the "tackle" as "A squirrel climbing a tree" post show
A girl in the front row giggled for a solid minute
One friend didnt process that it was us that kissed untill post show and then looked at us in horror, claiming "It was cute until I realized it was you two"
There's a video in which I tackled Haschen so hard his leg flew up and if I ever find it again I might add it because its one of the funniest videos I've ever been apart of
The part in the song where the whole cast joins in was entirely cut from our version since nobody ever remembered to sing it, so instead we had and extra kiss and ran off
On closing the power went out mid-scene (among several other times) but when we came out again to restart the scene we got one of the largest applauses I think I've ever heard at that theater
I probably have more but can't think of any, feel free to ask me questions because honestly this was such a funny show and I have so much to talk about.
dededos
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