A Spring Awakening with Twitter, Virginity, Teen Sex, Rock and Roll and Broadway

So as an avid twitter user, bordering on evangelistic, I can’t help but laugh when people say they just don’t get it.  ”It’s narcissistic, who cares whether your taking a piss?” or as my friend Nav so eloquently put, “Or taking pictures of your knob?”.  I am here to enlighten you to the benefits once again.  

I was attending the CMJ Music Conference last week in NYC and as someone who wants to find out about all the cool events, I turn to twitter for information on what’s going on around town.  So, as I’m sitting in a panel on Wednesday and tweeting what’s happening.  I look and see a tweet from the infamous @juliaroy about a really cool music event for NYC music bloggers for free.  As one who has never been scared of being an outsider, I went ahead and tried to see if I could get in on this free special event.  Can you actually believe it worked and she accepted this ATLien into the NY get together? Me either.

What was the event? I was told that it was a Broadway Musical, Spring Awakening. Now you have to excuse me for my ignorance but I still didn’t know what I was in for. I’m thinking, well I am in New York City for the first time and I get to see my first musical, sure I’ll go.

I find out that we’re meeting at Fusion with our hosts Julia Roy and Eric Tabone for a few drinks before the show along with other NYC music bloggers; Patrik Sandberg, Faith-Ann Young and William Hubbard . Of course I show up fashionably late because of my extreme knowledge of NYC F*C&T (censored for your protection) train subway system. After having a glass of wine, we head up to Broadway in the ass numbing New York wind. In what seemed like 2 miles but in reality was only probably just a 10 minute walk. We waited for Eric to get our tickets in this 24 hour land of the chills and it was discovered that we were unfortunately one ticket short for our entourage. Eric so graciously gave up his ticket for one of us to see the show (If it was mine, thanks so much Eric).

We then go inside the Eugene O’Neill Theatre to escape the bitter cold and find our seats.  After landing myself in the 3rd row preparing to have my musical hymen broken (you should be so jealous now).  I was certainly not prepared for the experience about to unfold. The seats were so close that we actually had to duck spit from the actors and hold props. Ok, so maybe we didn’t get to hold any props.

It comes to find out that Julia and Eric work for Undercurrent. Which is digital think tank that has helped facilitate the phenomenon that Spring Awakening has generated on Broadway. Hence, our fantastic seats for this show.

The opening scene grabbed my attention with it’s sexuality, humor, taboos and Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo. It has a great story that weaves from Act to Act with amazing Rock and Roll pop songs as its canvas written by Tony Award winner Duncan Sheik. As the plot progressed it became pretty serious in its attention grabbing subject matter but never stepped to far away from the humor though. At least not enough to make me forget that it’s a life changing experience for me and the rest of the audience.

It’s funny, the older I get the less I remember about my losing my virginity. I’m pretty sure you know I’d be lying if I said it was great and lasted a really long time, for me or for her. Although, I have to say though that my first musical memories will be something that will last way beyond my alcoholic induced Alzheimer’s that was my first sexual encounter. Spring Awakening is a true remembrance of the things that we go through in our youth in dealing with our sexuality. It tackles all the confusion and frustration about the subject of sex that we have with our family and friends set to a Pop/Rock and Roll backdrop. This musical will be hard one to top in my future experiences with musicals. Unlike my first sexual encounter .

The Spring Awakening was just that, an awakening. For me, it makes me realize that I still have a whole lot of things that I have yet to do for the first time. So I ask you, “what haven’t you done for the first time yet?” Maybe it’s something as simple as twitter or something that you may not even be interested in, until you try it. So even if you don’t think something interests you, do it anyway because you can never know where it leads. Hell, you might even meet some really cool new people and have a great time in NYC like mine.