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@thepyramidmusical
@springawakening.nyc
@thetheatercenter
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The Pyramid is coming to life, and you KNOW the drama doesn’t stop here. 💋👀 We’ve been busy behind the scenes… and let’s just say, the competition is just getting started. Stay tuned, divas. 💅🏼

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Spring Awakening ART/NY💛🧡

@springawakening.nyc
Could not thank @michael_manasseh @viraj.shri @shaniaapahuja @griffinspriggs @jamesstryska enough for their leadership and for making this all possible <333

Director/Choreographer: @shaniaapahuja
Music Direction: @jamesstryska
PSM: @griffinspriggs
Music/Lyrics: Duncan Sheik
Book: Steven Sater
Original Play by: Frank Wedekind
Producers: @michael_manasseh & @viraj.shri
Sound: @kaileykielle @mollyelysemcgill
Lighting: @bobbirenefullerton
Costumes: @alyhhernandez
Intimacy: @jhrt.ly

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The faces behind the Pyramid. 👀

Get to know the team bringing the drama, the music, and everything in between to life. 💃

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Divas, you helped us get this far. 💅 You deserve to see where the magic (and the madness) starts.

A little disposable camera evidence from our writers’ retreat. 📸 Because what happens in the writers’ room definitely does NOT stay in the writers’ room. 👀

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Summer ‘26 was a bit of a generational run 🏁

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What does it take to turn 9 seasons and 224 episodes of chaotic reality TV into a musical?!

Tune into our episode interviewing the creators of The Pyramid: An Unauthorized “Dance Moms” Musical to learn more about how the project has evolved from its first viral TikTok posted back in 2023.

OG "Dance Moms" fans Erica Molfetto, James Stryska, and Logan Clark (former Talent Coordinator at "Dance Moms") spill all their piping hot tea on the process with host Mikayla Petrilla. The full episode is live NOW on all platforms!

To support The Pyramid, head on over to their page @thepyramidmusical — their kickstarter is still open for late pledges... will YOU be at the top of the pledge pyramid??

#Broadway #dancemoms #musical #tiktokmusical #newmusical #thepyramid #abbyleemiller

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Two weeks ago we closed @springawakening.nyc at A.R.T./New York Theatres and I’m still trying to process all of my emotions and gratitude. This show marks my third time being in Spring Awakening. Each time it comes into my life, it serves a different purpose, and teaches me something about the world/myself I need at that moment. This time around, it introduced me to the greatest humans and reminded me of how lucky I am for the people in my life. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to the cast and production team for inspiring me everyday with your talent, dedication, and kindness. Meeting you all was the highlight of my summer. Thank you to my family and friends who are now hopping on flights to see me perform, instead of driving down the street (or to Madison @nitabuffomante @tony.buffomante) And thank you to my long distance bestfriends who sent me so much love throughout this process because they knew how much this meant to me 🧡

THIS SHOW MEANS SO MUCH TO ME! Telling this story with South Asian artists was the greatest gift I could ever ask for. I miss it and I love theatre and I love everyone involved and I’ll remember this experience forever #SASAFOREVER #swingo #purplesummer

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been eating my greens and drinking my coconut water and LOVING my friends

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How did everyone take our ✨artistic liberties✨? Be honest. 😭💅

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SS26 back in NYC ✨✌️I love music and bass and this city 🖤🖤 here are the highlights:

1. CHARLIIIIIIIIIII MMF 🖤🖤
2. PS1 Warm Up
3. Shenandoah National Park 14
4. I TURNED 30 THIS SUMMER around my friends💜
5. Budapest
6. PowerPoint Party
7. PS1 x2
8. Nantucket!
9. I AM 30 NOW
10. Back with my perfect bass 💙
11. Ben

#summernyc #girlbassist #bassistsofinstagram #nyc

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My purple summer.

Prod photos in slides 5, 7, 9 by @dillonburkephoto
Prod photos in slides 1, 3, 11 by @brooklinn_

Lighting: @bobbifullerton / @bobbirenefullerton
Sound: @kaileykielle
Costumes: @alyhhernandez

Best summer ever by the wonderful company of @springawakening.nyc , of whom there are so many; instagram would not let me tag them all. Still, a special shout-out to @michael_manasseh

When i first started writing the caption, i told myself this wouldn’t be a sappy post, but as I kept looking over these photos to tag people, i realized it had to be. I’d been wanting to do Spring Awakening for 4 years (during which I actually did perform it once) and I had been wanting to do SASA, as we’ve so lovingly begun to call it, for about 2. Even for a relatively “small” show, everything was a challenge, but over the past week since we’ve closed - I keep telling people I would do it again, and again, and again. I consider the start of SASA the day I met Mikey, which was almost a year exactly from opening night (August 14th). There were many late night phone calls on how to get the rights, who we want to include on the creative team, casting discussions, and if we’re sure that we want to lock in the longest performance run with the shortest run way to opening night from all the venue availabilities we got. And then June 14th hit, and the show burst open. The talent that oozed out of everyone was so incredible - but what I will always carry with me, is how easy it was to become best friends - it’s like the first thing I tell everyone. Sure, the late night ice cream and pranks on Craig helped, but it felt like everyone wore their heart on their sleeve. Idk if we happened to cast the nicest brown kids in NYC (and Cincinnati) or there was just this implicit trust in a room full of desi people, but I could feel the love and joy all the time.

This experience has been singular. To experience being in a room full of south asian theater artists is a gift 🧡🧡 SASA FOREVER

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We believe in giving 110%. Unfortunately, that includes the browser history. 🫡

#dancemoms #abbyleemiller

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