The Song of Purple Summer - Jon and Lea's last SA

[@Paint]

This is too incredible for words.

[@ThatGirlAtTheConcert]

Paint I second that thought

[@simrantage]

I knowwwwwwwww

[@karinaosbourne9332]

Seeing Jon comment on the broadway videos I watch it always so funny to me

[@ionescarlet9741]

The Ilse is fabulous 🤩

[@lolamalmer]

oh hi jon

[@LGM429]

This makes me tear up every time I watch it - when Phoebe touches Lea's face and Blake kisses the top of her head, when Blake bows to Jon and Jon takes Skylar's hand, and the way Blake and Lea both grab Jon's hands when they move forward near the end of the song. Makes me wish I could have been there...!

[@racheltwilight13]

I'm so glad this has the first 8 measures. On most recordings it doesn't and this is AMAZING.

[@ColtonMyers1]

I didn’t fully appreciate this show when it first came out - now, a decade later, after coming out, experiencing suicide ideation, the struggles of college, and intense love/loss for the first time, this show has so much more meaning to me.

[@suzettes1485]

I was at this show! Oh the tears..... I love love this cast. Thanks for posting this

[@andreahoheb5812]

When they crescendo into "All shall know the wonders" and Jon puts his hands on Lea and John, it gives me goosebumps. Not because it was in character, not because Moritz and Wendla died, its because in real life, it was the last time they were together on stage. It was the last they were all a cast, together, singing the last song. I cry everytime because I know that feeling of the last performance, the last time on that stage and thats why its so hard-hitting and I cry.

[@magaencina2863]

It must certainly wasn't a "last" for Jonathan and Lea, they sang alot of times after together and then even on glee but yeah, in that moment they felt they were saying goodbye even to their friendship, which also wasn't the case.

[@yippedoodah]

This must've been one amazing experience, being a part of this cast :')

[@iKidForever]

Yes, there are people singing in the onstage audience. They're the ensemble, in Spring Awakening the ensemble wore normal clothes and sat in the onstage audience. They would have mics that they pull out to sing with.

[@mitchelety]

My entire body just shivered... What an amazing performance!!

[@MrsKiarara94]

I swear this is one of the most emotional, powerful, touching thing i've ever seen in my life. I swear it.

[@daniellab4031]

3:30 literally gives me the chills

[@briannelw]

This still puts me in tears. Every time I watch it.

[@orestesandpylades]

so so so so beautiful and flawless. I can't adequately express how much I love this song, and what a perfect conclusion it is to spring awakening.

[@MelchiGabor1]

Oh, God! This musical has always been able to reduce me to tears, but this is the most I've ever cried.

[@AmmyandPhoebex3]

Listen to what's in the heart of a child A song so big in one so small Soon you will hear where beauty lies You'll hear and you'll recall The sadness the doubt All the loss, the grief Will belong to some play from the past As the child leads the way to a dream A belief A time of hope through the land A summer's day A mother sings A song of purple summer Through the heart of everything And heaven waits So close it seems To show her child the wonders Of a world beyond her dreams

[@kendrickdinger]

This is my show choir's ballad and I'm doing the solo!!!

[@AmmyandPhoebex3]

The earth will wave with corn The days so wide, so warm And mares will neigh With stallions that they mate Foals they've borne And all shall know the wonder Of purple summer... And still, I wait The swallow brings A song of what's to follow - The glory of the spring The fences sway The porches swing The sky begins to thunder Crickets wander, murmuring The earth will wave with corn The day so wild, so warm And mares will neigh With stallions that they mate Foals they've borne And all shall know the wonder I will sing the song of purple summer And all shall know the wonder I will sing the song of purple summer All shall know the wonder Of purple summer...

[@ronnykmarshall]

I saw this Thanksgiving when it was 1st on Broadway. It was amazing.

[@lionsforscottie]

that APPLAUSE jeez

[@lionsforscottie]

i mean same but gosh guys

[@lionsforscottie]

3:36 MY BABIES oh my god okay thanks i'm legitimately crying

[@mcmanpa]

+lions for scottie Genuine audience enthusiasm, but once the screaming started I couldn't hear anything being sung. Honest question: why do people scream over the top of the singers and drown out their singing? Never understood this.

[@mayadg16]

And Lilli is in the Spongebob musical. Wow! Time has gone by so fast!

[@Eziokilla9595]

This is the best video on KZbin.

[@EEvers629]

excuse me whilst I weep

[@sheridanarmour3890]

I’m still crying over this

[@xxbunnysmashxx]

FUUUUCK WHY AM I SOBBING OH GOD NO.

[@LocalBlonde2673]

This makes me cry, it’s so beautiful!! 😭😭

[@AlexWooKungFu]

daaaaammn them feels !!!

[@tabbee5835]

Alex Woo

[@agenttheater5]

you can tell that she's about to cry

[@jack1theatregeek]

The audience sits on stage just like it was blocked in the round when off broadway.

[@isabellanebs22]

this is fucking amazing I'm in another world right now

[@denisefreitas6727]

AMAZING!!!!!!!

[@jaxsonsmith0505]

I am really cryin in the club right now cause of this

[@strawberrysingsthings]

How I wish I was there, too bad I was a 7 year old at the time

[@youraunt938]

I'm sobbing

[@thethreeeyedfish]

Beautiful performance by some of the most talented performers out there! Just curious, is there any significance to Lea/Wendla wearing the white dress instead of the blue one (as in many other performances)?

[@WonderstruckFleur]

probably because it was her last performance and that would be the last time she will wear that dress.

[@itskatiemydudes1541]

i can’t remember if the broadway production was the same, but in a showing of spring awakening i saw at a college a few months ago, moritz and wendla were in all white outfits at the end when they “rise from the dead” for a sec. i think to represent that they’re spirits/ghosts. the broadway show may do the same concept, but moritz is in his normal outfit here, so idk

[@mamushcas]

love this song

[@genicaization]

@jazzymazzyluvsbway yea i'll try to do that next.. the last time i did it though, i got in trouble with youtube so *fingers crossed*

[@agb1193]

goosebumps holy God.

[@Nightelfyo]

3:29. yes.

[@PengaFerg]

I love Emma Hunton's voice.

[@Selenelaszlobjj]

Natalie Adams so that was Emma Hinton as Ilsa. I couldn’t remember if she had joined the cast before or after Caitlin Kinnunen did.

[@jennacallenia1368]

I wish the audience didn't scream and cry over their final song. Call me a curmudgeon, but every last performance deserves its respect. A time and place for that would be curtain call or an encore. Love their singing and acting too but Id still like to enjoy the last of the performance.

[@x3dontcarex3]

when did you film this? :)

[@chlomo368_2]

PLEASE THE SCREAMINH

[@Cullengirl231]

hey @genicaization can you upload The Guilty Ones.. please? *-* lol

[@CurseoftheSpider]

Can I ask, are they people in the audience singing in the sides? And if they're characters, who are they? They seem to be wearing normal clothes.

[@karissaconway2719]

they are the ensemble

[@Olina231]

@1adaymusic except he was melchior and not melchoir

[@Mark_R_Tho]

Omg😭😭😭

[@elliem7339]

unreal

[@briannelw]

That's not John. John left before Lea and Jonathan. That's Blake Bashoff.

[@michaelvino8679]

Johnathan Groff

[@tips4tourists790]

2:43

[@aaronhollister3974]

My choirs doin this and it's sooo awesome!

[@iKidForever]

who is playing Ilse?

[@Selenelaszlobjj]

Luc Wittenberg Emma Hunton.

[@saschahoupt6177]

This really should have gone back off-Broadway IMO

[@nicklenton2897]

B. I’m

[@youwish2haha]

I saw all of them in the original production- I wish I'd seen this reunion. It seems much more poignant.