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Exclusive Pics! Rehearsals, Sleepovers and Backstage Fun at Deaf West's Spring Awakening
Exclusive Pics! Rehearsals, Sleepovers and Backstage Fun at Deaf West's Spring Awakening
Amelia Hensley, who plays Thea in Deaf West's acclaimed Spring Awakening , takes Playbill readers behind the scenes at the Wallis Annenberg Performing Arts Center.
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In the green room, getting ready for rehearsal!
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Work on board, Schuyler Helford and Alexandria Wailes
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Boys rehearse their scene
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Why are you so serious, production team?
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The girls take a break
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Julian, the swinger for boys
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The boys rehearsal
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Break time!
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Ali Stroker, takes a phone break
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ASL master team
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Lunch break
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Lunch break
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Sandra and Josh practice their dance
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We are super excited to see more of the set to be done!
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Austin and Sandra prepare a song for Monday Musical at Rage
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Daniel talks to the piano at Musical Monday at Rage
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Get ready for do Song
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Dinner break
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Dinner break
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Girls had slumber party!
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Girls had slumber party!
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Girls had slumber party!
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Girls had slumber party!
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ASL master Sho's daughter, we love her so much!
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ASl master Sho's daughter, we love her so much!
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Sean, takes a phone break!
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TJ and Susie
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Two adult women talk with ASL master, Linda
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Lexie with her Harp!
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Garbiel and Alex
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Treshelle and Andy with baby
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Director Micheal talks with Swinger, Karla
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Sandra and Karla, practice lines together for Wendla
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Austin is ready to rock out!
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Break time
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Break time
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Jared! prepares to do music with bands
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Jared with voice actors and band
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Last day of rehearsal space before move to other stage, we had help to pull tape off from the floor
Amelia Hensley
Last day of rehearsal space before move to other stage, we had help to pull tape off from the floor
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Last day of rehearsal space before move to other stage, we had help to pull tape off from the floor
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Finally, we move in dressing room!
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Girls are getting comfortable in the dressing room.
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Krysta and Gabby
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Girls' dressing room
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Amelia Hensley is doing the ASL captain notes
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Kathryn and Treshelle are practice as Martha
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Gabby is drinking a water out of wine glasses!
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Boys in dressing room
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Lauren and Amelia got same hair color for THEA!
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Casts is taking notes from ASL Masters.
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Dinner Break at Fat Burgers
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Daniel is watching Andy to play the game
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Help with Mics
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Get ready for TECH WEEK!
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Yes, TECH is FUN!
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Krysta and Andy
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Alex and Treshelle
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Joey and Hilary
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Band/Voices, discuss about music
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Tech Day! Its easier job for us that we have to sit all of day! ha ha
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What! We have two Mortiz's!
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Kathryn, try to sign with other
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Josh Castille reviews his song
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Austin and Treshelle
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Teamwork! Natscha had a wood spliter in her hand, the boys help her.
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Tech with lights
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Fabulous choreographers for this show, Spencer and Alexandria
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Adult man, Daniel
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Treshelle as Martha
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Adult man, Howie
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ASL master work with Sandra for sign
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Girls dressing room
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Hey, Andy and Krysta!
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Review with Spencer
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Spencer and Krysta
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Joey's birthday!
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Joey's birthday!
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Howie and Natscha
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Crew sets the tape on floor for chair
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Guitar prep! Last day in rehearsal space before we move to our amazing theater at the Wallis!
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ASL Captain Amelia Hensley helps Krysta with sign
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Austin! What are you drawing?
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Amelia, Josh and Sandy
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Boys during tech
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Miles and Josh!
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It's Krysta!
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ASL captain Josh help Krysta with sign
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They went for Lunch Break in Beverly Hills with Krysta, Ali, Alex, Julian, Daniel, and Sean
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Spend your life running from the Church, and where do you wind up?' Opening tonight !!
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Getting into character!! But how do we get him out of character?
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And it begins with tech day one... Spring Awakening!!
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And it begins
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Ernst and Ernst! Having fun with Daniel David Stewart during tech so lucky to have him as my voice!
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Happy opening!
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Last night we had our first preview of #deafawakening !!!! If you haven't seen this show and you're in LA, you won't want to miss it!
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Living may be a bitch but we are ready to get totally fucked!
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Mom needed to preserve the moment with a photograph.
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Omg! Today is our first rehearsal of Spring Awakening ! Ahhh! — with Josh Castille and D Nicholas Durant
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Sandra and Katie, as Wendla
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Susie and TJ
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TJ and Susie! at opening of Spring awakening
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Critics praised the re-imagined Deaf West Theatre production that is performed simultaneously in English and American Sign Language.
The cast features Robert Ariza , Miles Barbee , Katie Boeck , Alex Boniello , Joshua Castille , Lizzy Cuesta , Daniel N. Durant , Treshelle Edmond , Sandra Mae Frank , Kathryn Gallagher , Sean Grandillo , Elizabeth Greene , Russell Harvard , Amelia Hensley, Van Hughes , Lauren Luiz , Daniel Marmion , Austin McKenzie , Andy Mientus , Anthony Natale, Patrick Page , Ren, Krysta Rodriguez , Daniel David Stewart , Ali Stroker , Alexandria Wailes, Alexandra Winter and Alex Wyse .
The Tony-winning musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik is a soulful coming-of-age story set in 19th century Germany (based on the 1891 play of the same title by Frank Wedekind ) that sent shockwaves through Broadway in 2006.
Ken Davenport , Cody Lassen, Hunter Arnold and Deaf West Theatre (artistic director David J. Kurs) present the production, which is directed by Michael Arden and choreographed by Spencer Liff .
The creative team includes Dane Laffrey (scenic and costume design), Ben Stanton (lighting design), Gareth Owen (sound design) and Lucy Mackinnon (projection design). New York casting is by Telsey + Company/Craig Burns , CSA, and original casting was by Beth Lipari and Bruce Newberg.
Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster or by calling (877) 250-2929.