I showed my best friend Emily DWSA for the first time (whilst my friend Tevyn was in the room)
Here are some highlights.
Tevyn asking what ASMR would be like for deaf people during the opening number.
Emily immediately started laughing at “Bobby Maler, he’s the best”. I’ve taught her well.
Once Em realized that Hänschen was about to start masturbating during My Junk, she promptly replied with “Oh. Oh…! OH OKAY.”
She was losing her shit throughout that entire scene, it was great.
“Don’t get too attatched to the idea of Melchior and Wendla becoming a couple, everything goes to shit in a few scenes.” “Oh, lovely.”
During the “I passed!” scene, I went back once to show Emily Alex Boniello’s little happy dance because it’s adorable, and she deserves to know of its existence.
“Baiting some girl with hypothesis” “Ohhhhh now I see why”
Tevyn wasn’t really watching or paying attention, so when it goes quiet after Martha admits her father beats hers, he looked up and said “Why did everything go quiet?”
After Moritz tells his father he failed his exams and sees the gun on the chair, this exchange took place…
“What is that?” “…It’s a gun…” “Oh no!”
“This is so fucked up, dude.” during I Believe
The boot we watched was split into two parts, so I had to give her a second to process everything before we moved on to act two.
So much quiet despair during Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind and Left Behind.
“Don’t worry, these next two songs’ll provide some levity.” “Thank fucking god.”
I pointed out Daniel David Stewart humping the wall during Totally Fucked, and that’s all Em focused on for the rest of the song.
“Okay Em, just so you know, if you laugh during this next scene, I’m fighting you.” “K”
Okay, well I let her laugh when Ernst hits the piano keys, and “Mm, I know!”, but that’s it.
“I love you, Hänschen! As I’ve never loved anyone!” “AW!”
She didn’t mention it while we were watching, but she noticed Andy Mientus’s Piano Scoots™
“And the nausea?” *noise of realization that Wendla is pregnant*
Once she realized that Wendla is dead: “WHAT. NO!!”
My dog started making noise during Those You’ve Known, so there was a lot of concealed laughter.
My failed attempts to explain the symbolism behind The Song of Purple Summer.
Tevyn after I closed YouTube, “That play sounded really fucking depressing. Like, I wasn’t watching, but holy shit.”