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♫ [Intro music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Patrick] From ‘TodayTix’ and ‘Theater People’ this is ‘Broadway Backstory’. The podcast that finds out how shows develop from an idea to a full Broadway production. I’m your host, Patrick Hinds.

Today we’re getting the backstory of the Deaf West Production of ‘Spring Awakening’. Through conversations with the show's original creators, director, producer, and stars. We’ll find out how this little show that could, developed from a 10-day workshop to a black box production on L.A.’s skid row. To a famed regional theater house in Beverly Hills. And untimely became a critically acclaimed, and Tony-nominated beloved Broadway revival.

[Music: ‘Touch Me’] ♫ Where I go // When I go there // No more memory anymore // Only drifting on some ship ♫

[Patrick] What you’re hearing here is a clip of the Broadway cast of Deaf West’s ‘Spring Awakening’ performing on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’. There is no cast album for this production. So, in order to experience the show, you have to search the internet for video clips like this.

But it occurs to me now having just watched the clip that this seems right. That the glory of this production is the way the Deaf and hearing actors communicate with each other and the audience. Through the combination of sign language and song. It’s something you have to see to really get. And I know now after interviewing just about everyone involved with this production, that it’s technical. But it looks magical.

[Music: ‘Touch Me’] ♫ Where I go // When I go there // No more shadows anymore // Only you there in the kiss // Nothing missing as you’re drifting to shore // Where I go // When I go there ♫

[Patrick] Let’s start at the beginning. ‘Spring Awakening’ with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater is based on the 1891 play by the same name written by Frank Wedekind.

Plot-wise there’s a lot going on in the show. But in a nutshell, it’s about teenagers grappling with authority and sexuality and trying to understand their place in the world. For the Deaf West production, many of the main roles were played by Deaf actors who communicated with sign language. But also, had a counterpart who would simultaneously speak or sing what the Deaf actor was signing.

We’ll start with the artistic director of Deaf West Theater. A man named David Kurs who goes by DJ. He’ll give us some background on the theater company.

DJ is Deaf so we communicated via email. I emailed a list of questions, he wrote out his responses and emailed them back. With the understanding that we need audio, DJ asked me find somebody that had been involved with the production to voice his responses. So, throughout the episode, DJ’s words will be voiced by actor Alex Wyse, who played Georg in the production.

[DJ Kurs] Deaf West Theater was founded in 1991 by Ed Waterstreet, an actor who had just left the National Theater of the Deaf. He was surprised there wasn’t a local theater for the Deaf community. And along with his N.T.D. counterparts who just moved to L.A., he founded Deaf West Theater.

We’ve been performing in Los Angeles for more than 25 years. Our mission statement is as follows: “Founded in Los Angeles in 1991, Deaf West Theater engages artists and audiences in unparallel theater experiences inspired by Deaf culture and the expressive power of sign language. Committed to innovation, collaboration, and training Deaf West Theater is the artistic bridge between the Deaf and hearing worlds.”

[Patrick] There’s one other piece to the work that Deaf West creates that isn’t spelled out in its mission statement. Actor Andy Mientus, who is intimately involved with this production, articulated that really, well in our interview.

[Andy Mientus] Deaf West’s mission is not to create theater for the Deaf, it’s to create theater for Deaf and hearing audiences together.

[Patrick] Meaning that Deaf West creates shows where Deaf actors are front and center, but the shows are meant to be enjoyed equally by Deaf and hearing audiences.

They have had a lot of success with this model. In addition to producing critically acclaimed productions for the Greater Los Angeles area at their home space in North Hollywood. In 2003 their production of ‘Big River’ transferred to Broadway where it was nominated for two Tony awards. And in 2009 they mounted a critically acclaimed production of ‘Pippin’ at the prestigious ‘Mark Taper Forum’.

One thing that both those productions have in common was the actor Michael Arden in leading roles. Actor Andy Mientus, who I should mention is also Michael Arden’s husband, had toured with ‘Spring Awakening’. And while on tour had seen Deaf West’s production of ‘Pippin’.

And so, a few years later when Deaf West began to think about mounting another big musical and it happened to coincide with Andy and Michael looking for a project to direct. Andy had an idea.

Here’s Andy and then DJ Kurs.

Just to note, I interviewed actors Andy Mientus, Krysta Rodriguez, and Alex Boniello together. So sometimes there’s some overlap.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Andy] When I was doing ‘Spring Awakening’ I always thought it would be the ideal show for Deaf West. And I feel like the seed of that idea came from when I was doing it at the Ahmanson, they were doing 'Pippin' in the Mark Taper, and our cast went and sat in on rehearsal. And I feel like that's gotta be where it came from. And so, we, you know, just brainstormed on that idea for like a day and a half. And just sort of figured out all the different ways that it could work, and why it would be special, and so we pitched it to DJ Kurs, the Artistic Director of Deaf West at 'Intelligentsia Coffee' on Sunset Boulevard.

[Patrick laughs]

[Krysta Rodriguez] Where all good things happen-

[Andy] Where all good things happen.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[DJ] I had seen the show on Broadway and at the Ahmanson in L.A. When Michael Arden and Andy Mientus brought the idea to me at 'Intelligentsia Coffee' in Silver Lake in 2013, I was skeptical. “Didn’t the tour just close a couple of years ago”. But when they brought up the opening scene where a mother attempts to explain the birds and the bees to her daughter, everything clicked. I thought to myself that’s a classic experience that nearly every Deaf person goes through. I mean, 90 percent of Deaf people are born into hearing families. And there’s a disconnect that begins at birth.

[Andy] DJ committed to a 10-day workshop where we were gonna work on like three different scenes from it, just to see if the idea could stick.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Patrick] One of the first people to join the creative team for that workshop was Spencer Liff. An actor who’d come from Broadway to Los Angeles and found success as a choreographer on the hit Fox series, ‘So You Think You Can Dance?’.

[Spencer Liff] Michael Arden and I had known each other for years in New York, we had been friends. And I knew how special he was, and how special his mind was. And he moved out to L.A. around the same time that I did. And there’s, you know, not- There’s theater in L.A. but there’s not a ton. You sort of have to make your own theater there. Especially if you want to do something new.

So, he came to me and he had worked with Deaf West, I had not, and he basically said, “Do you want to do something really scary and crazy?” And of course, I was like, “Yes”.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Patrick] I have asked a lot of what I feel like are silly questions over the course of the interviews that I did for this episode. I wasn’t even sure that that I was supposed to use the word ‘deaf’. Although, I have been assured that is the proper term. So, I was nervous to ask about the process about auditioning Deaf actors for that original workshop, but I was curious and so I figured our listeners would be too. I had to ask.

Here’s Michael Arden, who was very kind. And who was also speaking very softly because we did this interview in a rehearsal studio during his lunch break from a new show he’s directing. Anyway, auditioning Deaf actors.

[Michael Arden] Well, it’s a great question. So, usually, you invite the Deaf actor in. I have an interpreter with me or I sign for myself. But I prefer to have an interpreter just in case I, you know, miss something. And it’s just helpful to have an interpreter on hand.

And then, with the Deaf actors I had another Deaf actor, reader. But I would just watch them act. And you know, acting is acting. It was- It’s a really, exciting process because it’s listening to someone singing or listening to their voice. You’re really seeing how they really connect with another actor. And how they physicalize and how they chose to interpret the dialog. ‘Cause sign language isn’t an exact language. It’s not like there’s an exact translation from English. So, a lot of times you can get insight to an actor from how they chose to try translate the English into the sign language. And so, that often times sort of clues me into how they think.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Patrick] I was curious to hear about from a Deaf actor’s perspective. So, I reached out to Daniel Durant. Daniel was cast as Moritz, one of the teenagers at the center of ‘Spring Awakening’, for that original workshop. And stayed with the show all the way through the Broadway run.

I interviewed him via Skype and through an interpreter who spoke Daniel’s answers to my questions as signed them. Here’s what the audition process was like from his perspective.

[Daniel Durant] We all kind of sat around with the script. We had lines that we had to memorize, you know, and we would just try to sign those lines in a way that that matched the music. I was a little overwhelmed because it was- It’s a musical and I’m a strongly Deaf person and music has never been a huge part of my life. And so, I didn’t really have any idea how that would work. I was really, nervous, at first.

[Patrick] It sounds incredibly naive to say this now, but it became clear to me just in that moment that, at least at that point, Daniel didn’t really know what music was. And here he was auditioning for a musical. I had to ask him about that.

[Patrick] When people talk about music to you, what is music to you? Or, what was music to you before you started working on this production?

[Daniel] It’s funny you ask that question, because now I can finally answer that. Before I couldn’t even give you an answer as to what music meant. Before ‘Spring Awakening’ I’d really didn’t have a sense of music. Now I enjoy vibrations and feeling bass and music, and I like that. But in terms of what music sounds like and what hearing people get out of music, and all the ways music connects with hearing people. That part I didn’t understand. But going through this experience with ‘Spring Awakening’ I have picked up a more understanding of that.

[Patrick] So then I had to know how do you direct a musical with actors who not only can’t hear the music, but also don’t really know what music is. Here’s Michael Arden, again. And then, choreographer Spencer Liff.

[Michael] You have to think about, “what is music”, and it’s math.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Michael] You know, “Okay, so you don’t know music is, alright”. “Here’s a piece of music”. So, we look at some, and start explaining theory to them. There’s this many beats, you know, and (tap sound) tap (tap sound) their (tap sound) chest. It stays the same speed, you know, so if you take this many steps you’ll get that far across the stage. And if you take them faster that’s the tempo. And you start to explain music. I mean yeah, it’s- It was slow.

[Michael and Patrick laugh]

[Michael] It was a slow process, but you know, what’s nice is when you have to slow down is that it forces you to re-examine things you don’t- You sort of think you know (laughs). It was a lot of fun.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Spencer] We thought we were gonna get six songs done, and then all these scenes. And you know, we ended up getting two songs done and barely getting through anything and it was the hardest- It was the hardest experience I’ve ever had in a rehearsal room, and the most I had just no idea how to- How to work in the process of working with the interpreters and it was so new, and- But there was these moments of beauty that were created in those first workshops that made every excited. And made everyone pushing forward.

[Patrick] The next significant step for the production came in the fall of 2014. After the success of the original workshop, Deaf West funded a full production to be mounted in Downtown L.A. in the 99-seat theater at a facility called ‘Inner-City Arts’.

By this point, Andy Mientus, who had co-direct the workshop, had been cast in the Broadway revival of Les Mis (‘Les Misérables’) in the role of Marius. And so, Michael became the sole director. Here’s what Michael said when I asked him about the trajectory of the show at that point.

[Michael] It was just to do a small production, 99-seat production in L.A. And share this story through this lens. And you know, we never had our eyes set on Broadway or anything like that. It was sort of for this thing for our mind. Which is probably why we did such the work we did. That it was really, just about telling this story in the time and place we were in.

[Patrick] As I mentioned, the show centers around a group of adolescent school kids in Germany in the 1890’s. For Michael’s production, many of the school kids would be Deaf and so as rehearsals began Michael began to research what education for Deaf students was like at the time that the show takes place.

What he uncovered was startling. And we’ll get to that in just a second. But to fully understand what Michael learned and how it shaped the show you need to know about something called the Milan Conference that happened in 1880.

So, here’s Deaf West’s artistic director DJ Kurs. And then Michael Arden.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[DJ] I think above all humanity is afraid of the other. Deviations from the norm. And that is why Deaf people suffered during the place and time that ‘Spring Awakening’ takes place in. It takes place during a dark time in Deaf history. That is the aftermath of the Milan Conference from 1880 in which hearing educators of the Deaf got together and decided that Deaf students should be taught orally. And that sign language should be banned. It is the desire to normalize Deaf people that proved destructive to the Deaf individual then and still does today.

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[Patrick] And here’s what Michael found.

[Michael] I started to uncover all this information about the Milan Conference and how Deaf students were taught and not taught. And for those who don’t know, oralism was adopted as the only acceptable way of educating Deaf kids at that time. Which meant that no was sign language, so Deaf kids were forced to speak and read lips. And for many Deaf kids, I mean we know this know, in spades that that’s just a completely untangible expectation.

And so, so many kids were deemed “oral failures” and they were sent to asylums. Deaf individuals were sterilized at the time. Mostly women were sterilized. ‘Cause, they want to sort of- It was- Deafness was seen as a sickness that needed to be sort of cured or sort of eradicated. As apposed to, you know, we now know and see it as a culture and a strong beautiful culture. I wanted to somehow tell that story that no one really knows. I mean it’s this incredibly dark chapter in Deaf history and world history and sort of the history of education.

And it’s sort of, I mean, I would like to say it was like from the get go what I had in mind, but it wasn’t really. It sort of came to the process while we were in rehearsals. And made changes based on that. So initially, like in the school room, the teacher, there was a Deaf teacher. And then, I said, “No, this isn’t working. Let’s try this”. And Okay, well what if you aren’t allowed to sign what if this is all about signing in secret. And this other story began to emerge that I think was really, exciting and we haven’t seen before.

[Patrick] I’m sure that Michael is right that most hearing people don’t know the dark history, I certainly didn’t. But I wondered about the Deaf community. Did they know? So, I asked Daniel Durant, the actor you heard from earlier who played Moritz in the show.

[Daniel] Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It’s part of our culture. This history is part of who we are. As every Deaf individual knows this of our struggle to be recognized and to have our language recognized. This is something we still struggle for today.

[Patrick] Another thing to emerge in that production in that tiny theater in downtown L.A. was the significance and importance of the choreography, because of the fact that, it needed to incorporate sign language.

Duncan Sheik, who wrote the music for the show, pointed this out to me when I asked him about seeing that first incarnation of the Deaf West production.

[Duncan Sheik] Just from the movement standpoint you had the sign language itself became another kind of layer of choreography. And that just added so much too, because of Bill T. Jones the original choreography was amazing. But, you know what Spencer did plus the signing, it kind of made the show much more about movement than it ever had been before. And that was kind of a revelation. And really a lovely one, in fact.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Spencer] Sign language was my goal and concern and everything stemmed from that.

[Patrick] This, again, is Spencer Liff, the choreographer. I asked him about the challenges of choreographing for a largely deaf company and if he was intimidated by the mantle of Bill T. Jones’ iconic and Tony-winning choreography for the original production.

[Spencer] So I can honestly say that I never once really thought about what was done originally because it just wasn’t in the realm of where my head needed to be. So, I just sort of did what I wanted to do, what needed to be done for the show. I guess I had in the back of my head that, if anything aligned with what was originally done, and I came to that on my own terms, then that’s what was meant to be, but I don’t know. I just wasn’t scared of it. I had way too much other stuff to think about to worry about what he did and what I did. But everything he did was very gesture based. Obviously, that’s what we had to work with, as well, so, I think that’s where the similarities came from.

[Patrick] Daniel Durant spoke very passionately to me about the power of incorporating sign language into the choreography at that very early stage and the response it seemed to elicit from people.

[Daniel] Though we can’t necessarily hear the music, we can tell a story through music. People were in awe of it. People would say they would want to see more ASL integrated into theater, because it’s a more three-dimensional language. It has emotional impact on people. The emotions stick with people for longer periods of time once they see the emotions in three dimensions. You get emotions from hearing songs, too. But it is only in that one dimension. So, it’s a little bit reduced, I think, the story you can tell. I really like that we’re using this three-dimensional language to express things in a different way.

[Music: ‘The Bitch of Living’] ♫ God, I dreamed there was an Angel // Who could hear me through the wall // As I cried out like in Latin // This is so not life at all ♫

[Patrick] The downtown LA production officially opened in early September, 2014, to rave reviews. The LA Times said, if rippling goosebumps are any indication of emotional involvement, this show delivers. It’s hard to enumerate all the ways in which Deaf West’s ‘Spring Awakening’ is so very, very good. With the reviews came the news that, within months, the show would be transferring to a much larger theater at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Because that production would be a remount, they were allotted only a two-week rehearsal period. And, as commonly happens, not all of the actors from the downtown production were available for it. Enter Alex Wyse, Andy Mientus, Krysta Rodriguez, and Alex Boniello. Here’s Andy Mientus, who would be taking over the role of Hanschen.

[Andy] So Michael called me in this deep panic, saying, oh my god, who are we going to find somebody that can learn the part, let alone the part and the ASL. I was like, well, if you can’t find anybody else, and if it doesn’t look absolutely, ridiculous that I’m still playing a teenager, then I’ll do it. Because it was only going to be a three-week run, just really, as a victory lap for that production from the 99-seat theater. So, it was very low stakes.

[Patrick] Krysta Rodriguez, who had been an understudy in the original Broadway production of ‘Spring Awakening’, was at that time battling breast cancer when she received a similar call.

[Krysta] In that weird, nebulous time, it was like, if you can’t find anybody else we need whoever we can find. That’s where Alex and I joined on as well, because it was the same. The people that were playing our parts had gotten other jobs, and everybody was obviously going to take an opportunity that was the next step, instead of a lateral move with this show.

[Andy] There was absolutely-

[Krysta] No indication-

[Andy] -No plan for this to come to Broadway at all.

[Krysta] Yes. The Beverly Hills run was literally the six weeks in between my last chemo treatment and my surgery. He was like, “what’s your treatment schedule like”. And I was like “I don’t know, what are the dates”. And he gave them to me. He was like, “do you want to play Ilse”. And I was like, “uh, yeah”.

[Patrick] Alex Boniello’s story of being cast as the Voice of Moritz, the counterpart to the role that Daniel Durant had been playing since the workshop, is especially amazing.

[Alex Boniello] I’ve told it a whole bunch of times in various interviews during the run of the show, but I’ve never done it with Andy here. So, I kind of want-

[Andy] Do you want me to hold your hand?

[Alex] Don’t- Please don’t touch me. I want to hear his perspective. I was sitting in my apartment. I had just finished doing ‘Brooklynite’, which was an Off-Broadway show. I was literally getting dressed to go cater ‘The King and I’ reception for their opening night at Lincoln Center. I was just sitting there getting into my little vest that I had to wear. He followed me on Twitter. When someone who has many followers follows you, you get notified. I was like, “Oh, I guess it’s not that weird. We know a lot of the same people, whatever”. Then five seconds later he sent me a direct message. And he just said, “Hey, number one, Matt Doyle says we should be friends; number two, what are you doing in the next couple weeks”. I was like, “Nothing, what’s up?”

He was sending these quick and- “Deaf West is doing ‘Spring Awakening’, need Voice of Moritz. Also, plays guitar. Are you available? It’s going to be in LA. Could you get to L.A. in-” I was like, “Yes, I would love to do that”. I Skyped with Michael, I think the next day, and just played guitar for him and sang for him. He was like, “Great, thank you so much. Okay, we’ll be in touch soon”. Then the Skype call ends. Fourteen seconds later he texts me. He’s like, “Hey, so, we want you to do it. What’s going on?” I’m like, “You tell me what’s going on”. So, it was like three days later, I was on a plane.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Patrick] The new actors had a lot of catching up to do and not a lot of time. One of the biggest obstacles, of course, was learning how to communicate with their deaf cast mates. Here are Alex and Daniel.

[Alex] The first day of rehearsal, there was this ASL workshop type thing. I was taking an Uber there with Andy. He was like, just so you know, this is going to be really, interesting for you. Because I’d never met a Deaf person, ever, until this.

[Patrick] Oh, wow.

[Alex] So I was like, what do you mean; and he’s like, you’re going to see. Just walk in. It’s going to be fine. So, I walked in the room. I’ll never forget it as-long-as I live, walking into a room that, theoretically, would be so loud and bustling with communication that I understand.

It was a room full of these kids who were so excited to see each other again. And it was dead silent. They were all fully conversing with each other with hand movements that I didn’t understand a single one of. I walked in there, and I was like, oh my god, this is wild. But Daniel knew that was the case.

[Daniel] The first time we met each other, I was told he would be my voice actor. I remember that he knew no ASL. So, we exchanged phone numbers and got to know each other through texting.

[Alex] The first thing that we did- He gave me a big hug. We sat down. He pulled out his cell phone, and he started typing things and showing things to me. A fascinating thing about Daniel, too, is, there are so many different levels of Deafness. Daniel had never heard- Ever, ever, ever. So, sound does not exist in his world, period. So, he thinks in concepts. He thinks in pictures in a way that we think in words and language. So, when he was typing to me, English is his second language, so that’s pretty clear. That was fascinating for me to learn. Right away, I was like, “Oh, wow”. It’s similar to, if someone’s first language is Spanish, and they’re typing English to you. You’ll notice things like that.

[Daniel] We decided to finally sit together and go through the script, and I would sign it. And we would talk about what we thought the lines meant. That was a way for us to start building some chemistry around the character.

[Alex] Watching him do the signs, trying to approximate what I thought his version of the character was feeling while also putting- It’s impossible for you not to put your own thing to it. But your job is to make sure his is the forefront. But yes, that’s kind of what it was. It was very, very slow. And we had two weeks to do it.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Patrick] I wondered what the social dynamic was like in the rehearsal room between the groups of hearing and Deaf actors. This was how I posed the question to Andy Mientus.

It sounds like the hearing actors maybe were working around the Deaf- It was their playing field that you guys were coming onto. Was that how it felt?

[Andy] Absolutely, because it’s a rare opportunity for them to be the focus. So, it was staged very deliberately to make sure that the signing was the focus. That the Deaf actor was the focus. Because that’s something that audiences don’t get an opportunity to see a whole lot. It’s something those actors don’t get to do, sadly, a whole lot. So of course, they should be the focus of it. It’s what made it special and different from that original.

[Patrick] Here’s what Daniel Durant had to say.

[Daniel] Well, I think it was a half and half situation. We were learning about music and the rhythm of music, why sounds are made in certain ways to cause emotion. They were learning similar things about sign language. So, you could see it becoming, instead of two groups, becoming one group where there was mutual learning between each group. Both in sign language and in music. I give a lot of credit to Michael Arden, because of the process.

I’ll never forget the first rehearsal back in Los Angeles. And it really was a place where we bonded together, and we got to know each other personally in terms of our backgrounds. We became sort of a family there. He’s really, adept at that, creating that sort of bond. I think Michael Arden really needs to be credited for being one of the top directors around.

[Patrick] Here’s Michael Arden.

[Michael] None of our hearing actors, with the exception of one, who knew a little bit, knew any sign language before we started. It was like, here, meet this person who you’re going to be spending every moment with, and learning how to communicate with. It was so exciting to watch these all these young actors. For some it was their first play. Theater is, ultimately, communication. They were having to relearn that on a basic level. It really stripped everyone of any ego, so it just cleared out all this space for this amazing work and growth to take place.

[Music: ‘Song of Purple Summer’] ♫ And heaven waits // So close it seems // To show her child the wonders // Of a world beyond her dreams // The earth will wave- ♫

[Patrick] The work, of course, paid off. The show opened at the Wallis in May of 2015; again, to rave reviews. This time, Charles McNulty, in the L.A. Times, called the production stunning, enthralling, and a rousing success.

[Music: ‘Song of Purple Summer’] ♫ And mares will neigh // With stallions that they mate // Foals they've borne // And all shall know the wonder // Of purple summer ♫

[Ken Davenport] I’ve had a man crush on Michael Arden forever, and a talent crush.

[Patrick] This is producer Ken Davenport. He would, ultimately, become the show’s lead producer for Broadway.

[Ken] I’ve been a fan of Deaf West for years, and then I heard the were doing ‘Spring Awakening’. I knew some folks that were involved with the production, and I had done a little bit of- I’d given them some advice on things about developing the show, from a business perspective. Then I went to see it on a lark. I had actually read the review from Charles McNulty, who is a very tough critic. And when he went crazy for it, I said, wow, there really must be something going on here. I just happened to be in Los Angeles for a wedding their final weekend. I said, “Meh, I’ll go check it out” and I went and was unbelievable moved. I remember thinking, “I have to get this to Broadway”.

[Patrick] Wow. Was there anything in particular you remember from that performance that made your producer Spidey senses just go off?

[Ken] Yes. It happened within the first 15 seconds. ‘Spring Awakening’ has this beautiful, beautiful beginning. This haunting Duncan Sheik melody. Wendla comes forward and starts to sing “Mama Who Bore Me”. In the Deaf West production, she came forward and then there was this great duality, for those of you who have seen it. The duality of the staging and the guitar. She came forward, and she started to sign it. My heart broke for her.

[Music: ‘Mama Who Bore Me’] ♫ Mama who bore me // Mama who gave me // No way to handle things // Who made me so sad // Mama, the weeping ♫

[Ken] All of a sudden this effort, this desire in the actress- Of course, she was so wonderful the desire to communicate her innermost thoughts and emotions just seemed so much more passionate when told through sign. This effort of, “I so want to talk to someone. I so want someone to talk to me. And I’m just looking for a way for someone to listen and for someone to hear me”. It was just so much more powerful through sign language. I remember thinking, “Oh my gosh, thousands, and thousands, and thousands more people have to see this”.

[Patrick] Here’s how Deaf West artistic director, DJ Kurs, remembers meeting Ken Davenport that day. The Cody he’s talking about is Cody Lassen, another of the show’s producers.

[DJ] During intermission, Ken comes out and starts talking to Cody. I remember him seeming very interested, and my interpreter attempted to eavesdrop their conversation. But they were speaking in low tones. My instinct as a Deaf person tells me to hang low in these situations. And I guess in this case, the work spoke for itself.

[Ken] DJ Kurs came up to me after, and I was just so moved. I was like, this is amazing; this is incredible. I hadn’t really said, I’m going to move it to Broadway yet. DJ said, “We hope you’ll help us figure out a life for it after”. I remember just kind of saying- And what was amazing for me is, it was probably the first ever conversation I’ve had with a Deaf person.

[Patrick] I was going to ask you: How did you communicate with him?

[Ken] We had an interpreter there. I have never had a conversation. I’ve certainly said “hello” or spoken to someone very quickly, a brief greeting. But I’d never had a discussion, especially something as serious as this. The interpreter came over, and of course, this is one of the reasons I wanted to do the show. Everyone’s first experience: “Oh, you’re nervous. What do I say? Who do I look at?” These are things that we don’t know. What I hope and pray is that our production of ‘Spring Awakening’ helped educate people on some of those issues. I remember having this conversation and looking at the interpreter. He said, “I hope you’ll help us get-” and I was like, “Yes. No, no, we’ve got to get this to New York”. I just remember saying that. Once I say something, I’m just a guy that has to figure out how to do it.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Patrick] So, when you’re sitting in a theater, and you decide, this has to go to Broadway, what do you do then?

[Ken] The next step in this specific case was me calling a theater owner; because I analyzed- Actually, the list is right over there. Those are all the theaters that are on Broadway and the shows that are coming in, and also what I think is coming in on top of them.

[Patrick] Your guess, educated guess?

[Ken] Yes, and you know, my nose to the gossip mills, if you will. That analogy made no sense, but you get it. So, I had a feeling I knew what was coming in, and I thought there might be a slot available at the Brooks (Atkinson). So, I called the Nederlanders and said, I think you may have a window, and I have the show for you. Thankfully the Nederlanders- I couldn’t get half the pitch out of my mouth, of, “It’s the Deaf West production of ‘Spring Awakening’”. They were like, “We’re very interested in the show. Give me five minutes to figure this out. We’ll talk to you some more”. They did. They came back. “Yes, we have a slot. We just need to hear some more about the show”. Very quickly, they said, “We would love to have you in our theater”.

[Patrick] Wow. How did you raise the money? I don’t even know- Did you need to raise money, and how did you do it?

[Ken] Oh, yeah. We had to raise four and a half million dollars in 86 days. So, it was 86 days from the day that I saw it to the first preview. At this point I had given no thought to not only how I would raise it, but also how much it would even cost. What I think should drive all art and all production of anything is, “I must do this. I have to do this”. And then you figure- “Okay, now we have to figure out how we’re going to make it all happen”. I just trusted, also, that anything this powerful- People would raise their hands and say, “I want to support this. I want to be a part of it”. That’s what happened.

[Patrick] I’m always the most excited to find out how actors found out they’d be going to Broadway. For this production, since the show had closed before the decision was officially made, most of the actors found out via email. For Krysta Rodriguez, who at that point was recovering was recovering from a double mastectomy she’d had as part of her cancer treatment, the moment was especially surreal. Here’s Krysta, and then Daniel Durant.

[Krysta] We actually got the call to go to Broadway as I was recovering from the surgery. I was hopped up on drugs. I had to be like, “Is this real? Did this actually happen, or did I fever dream this thing that we’re going to Broadway?”

[Daniel] It was a huge moment for me. I’ll never forget it. We had a gut feeling, but it was really a huge question. There was a big question in the air, and then DJ from Deaf West, the artistic director at Deaf West- We kept kind of waiting for him to let us know. One day I was in my basement watching Netflix, and I get this email from one of the producers, or someone, saying, “We’re offering you this role of Moritz on Broadway”. I was stunned. I looked at that email for several minutes, and then finally I called my mom, and I Skyped with her. And it was very emotional. I was telling her I was going on Broadway. My mom is a big theater nut. So, she was just thrilled. We were all just stunned. It took a few days for it to set in that I was going to be moving to Broadway, moving on and doing this show.

[Patrick] Coming to Broadway, of course, also meant relocating most of the Deaf actors from California to New York. Here’s Ken Davenport.

[Ken] I said, “Oh, they’ll move here”. And then we were like, “Wait, that’s just not as easy for them”. What, again, they proved, was, “Yes, we’ll move here. We’ll figure it out”. What I loved was, it was not this- “Don’t treat us in a certain way. We can figure this out”. And they banded together, and a bunch of them- It was 18 to a room in some- It was crazy. But yes, we had to give everything an extra thought. But I think that all taught us a very valuable lesson.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Patrick] Something that I haven’t mentioned until just now is the fact that the Deaf West production of ‘Spring Awakening’ was breaking ground in yet another way with actress Ali Stroker. Ali had been with the production since the LA run. But when the show moved to Broadway, Ali, who is paralyzed from the chest down, would be the first actress in a wheelchair to appear on Broadway. The way the cast and creatives talk about Ali, especially with the challenges she faced, just logistically working in a handicapped-inaccessible Broadway theater, is so emblematic of how close this team was. Here’s choreographer Spencer Liff, and then Andy Mientus and Krysta Rodriguez.

[Spencer] Ali is one of the best people you’ll ever meet. She’s constantly pushing boundaries, but she’s much more aware of her capabilities than I was at the beginning. We had a conversation on the very first day. And I said, “Hey, this is totally new for me. I’ve never choreographed for someone in a chair”. She showed me a lot of videos of her dancing. She’s on an actual wheelchair dance team. I watched those, and I was like, “Holy crap- You can do a lot. Okay, there go my judgments of what you can and can’t do”. Then I really focused on what she could bring to the table that someone who wasn’t in a chair couldn’t. I made her the cornerstone of a lot of my formations and was able to use her capabilities and showcase them. Which is the place I came from with her.

She would look at the choreography I did and adapt it herself. Then we would, in our own private sessions, work to- “Okay, you’re going to turn this way at this time. How do you sign and move your chair? Where do we drop the hands?” It was complicated, but she’s unbelievable. It’s funny- It was one of the first things I thought of when we knew we were going into the Brooks. I was like, “Well, where are we going to put Ali”. She has to be on the main floor. And they have to get a ramp, because there are stairs to get in just the door.

The cast would band together. When we first got into the theater, Andy picked up Ali and took her to every floor to make sure she could see the whole theater.

[Patrick] Oh, my god. I’m going to bawl.

[Spencer] That cast held onto each other so tight and loved each other so much.

[Patrick] I was very excited to get to ask Andy about this.

Did you really take her out of her chair and take her all over the theater when you guys first went into the Brooks Atkinson?

[Andy] Yes.

[Krysta] We took her everywhere.

[Andy] We’re always picking her up.

[Krysta] Unfortunately, you have to. There is so little accessibility in so many places. We would have a joke about the rating of accessibility in each place we’d go. “Accessibility zero”. This is not- So, yes. She’s so good at maneuvering that. But yes, we would have birthdays in the basement. Someone would have to take Ali, carry her downstairs and set her there to sit and watch and hang out, because she can’t get down there. Also, the Brooks Atkinson- They renovated a dressing room on the ground level for her to be able to get into and made a bathroom for her to move around. It’s great now. That theater is fully accessible- Well, not fully accessible. But more accessible than a lot of the other ones that have been around a hundred plus years that didn’t have the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) regulations that they have now.

[Patrick] Throughout the Broadway rehearsal process, Ali also held her own in Spencer’s notoriously difficult warmups. Here again, is Spencer and then Krysta.

[Spencer] I would lead this very long, aggressive workout every single morning, where they would have to plank, do pushups, and do cardio. She always was there doing her own version. I would bring an elastic band in, and we would do biceps together. It was very cool.

[Krysta] Truly, at that point, I was held together with sweat and Scotch tape. My brain was gone. I had chemo brain like crazy. I was recovering from surgery when we came to do the production. So, we would do Spencer’s warmups, and I would not do some things. I’d be like, “You know what, I just had surgery. And I don’t need to”. I’d look over, and Ali’s doing triceps pushups on her wheelchair. I’m like, “Okay, I guess we’re doing this now. I guess I don’t have an excuse. There are Deaf people dancing, and Ali’s doing pushups. So I just have to do it”.

[Patrick] All of this is just to say that, as an ensemble, they cared about each other. Loved each other, even. They were connected, and their show lived or died by that connection. Here’s Alex Boniello and then Krysta Rodriguez.

[Alex] “Don’t Do Sadness” was a really, big thing for that, because Daniel had to jump off of a staircase. I would give him this cue, and he would always be late. I’m like, “Why is this happening?” And one of our ASL masters, Elizabeth Green, is the only hearing ASL master. She goes, “Well, it’s because you’re thinking about it like a hearing person. So why do you think?” And I was like, “Because I’m tapping my chest when I want him to jump. But his brain needs to see it and then jump”. So, for someone who’s hearing the music, I would want to be like:

[Alex (sings)] ♫ You just sail away, because you know... ♫ tap.

[Alex] Because that’s when I want him to jump. I would have to go:

[Alex (sings)] ♫ You just sail away because... ♫ tap ♫ ...You know... ♫

[Alex] In the middle of my- It was like tapping your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time and realizing that that’s how it has to go.

Daniel and I would laugh. He’s like, it’s working now? And I’m like, “Yeah, it’s working now”. He’s like, “Why, and then I would try to explain it to him. I don’t even have the vocabulary in your language to explain to you why this works, but trust me forever and ever, and we’re great”. He’s like, “Okay”.

[Music: ‘Don’t Do Sadness’] ♫ Just sail away // 'Cause you know // I don't do sadness // Not even a little bit ♫

[Krysta] Yeah, as far as focus: Man, I’ve never- You do other shows, and you have to pay attention. You can’t just be thinking or whatever. But the whole show relied on us giving the cues at the right times and relied on us- As soon as your hand would move, they would start signing. It had to be on the word. If you spaced out for a second- I mean you can imagine what would happen if a person who can’t hear the music- If something went wrong, and they just keep going, because they don’t know that something’s different. Or they don’t know that the music didn’t start, or that the track didn’t come on, or anything. So, everyone- We were just on edge all the time, totally focused on each other, or else the show could have fallen apart so many times, so many times.

[Alex] Seconds. In-

[Krysta] There were actually a couple times- We had this thing we called the ship during “Touch Me” where we all had to walk together. We would sort of tap on the shoulders. After a while they know the rhythm, but sometimes the tempos of songs are different. That’s what live theater is. So, we’re tapping, and sometimes we’d call it the shipwreck, because it couldn’t get together. Spencer, actually, was like, “you know, sometimes those are the most magical. Because it reminds the audience that these people cannot hear”. That we’re doing all of this without- And not just maybe hear. They cannot hear. They’re dancing on rhythm, on beat, with emotion and with dynamics. Loud and soft and all of that stuff. Those times were actually kind of special, when you’re like, “Oh, this is actually a treat, every night; a treat”.

[Music: ‘Touch Me’] ♫ I’ll tell you how // Where I go // When I go there // Touch me // Just like it // Now that’s it // Oh, that’s heaven, touch // I love your light ♫

[Patrick] The Deaf West production of ‘Spring Awakening’ opened for a limited engagement run on September 27th, 2015, to rave reviews. Charles Isherwood of the New York Times said that the “show was born anew, was thrillingly inventive, and was directed with remarkable finesse by Michael Arden”. The production ran for a previously determined 23 previews and 135 regular performances and went on to be nominated for three Tony Awards, including best lighting design of a musical for Ben Stanton, best direction of a musical for Michael Arden, and best revival of a musical.

[Music: ‘Song of Purple Summer’] ♫ A summers day // A mother sings // A song of purple summer // Through the heart of everything // And heaven waits ♫

[Patrick] One of the great things about making this episode a year after the show closed is that the people who made the work now have some perspective on it, so I want to end by sharing some of the thoughts and takeaways the cast and creatives shared with me. DJ Kurs goes first.

[DJ] Talking about it a year later, we can only view it from the rearview mirror. The achievement of our production feels even more exceptional in the age of Trump. It is magical when Deaf and hearing artists cross cultural and linguistic boundaries to work together in the purpose of creating art, and even more so when hearing and Deaf audience members sit together to enjoy the same show. I’m also very proud of the press that we got. Everything from the first reviews to the celebration of Ali Stroker as the first performer in a wheelchair on Broadway. I’m also just very happy that our production has inspired so many other productions that involve Deaf talent and am very proud of the outsize impact that our little theater company has created.

[Patrick] Here’s Daniel on his feeling about Broadway run and the legacy of the production.

[Daniel] I think part of the legacy is just a little bit of magic that happened in that show. Music and English and American Sign Language and choreography: These were all layer upon layer, upon layer. It was so textured and gave the audience something different. And historic moment for Deaf people, for our culture, and for all of these people who were involved in the production. I just think it was so historic.

[Patrick] Here’s Michael Arden.

[Michael] I hope that our production gave both audiences and theater makers and producers an opportunity to see how exciting performers with different abilities can be. I think there are so many ways to tell stories, and having Deaf actors and hard of hearing actors and actors in wheelchairs- These things just don’t happen. Yet sometimes we can somehow tell the story more clearly and in new ways. So, I hope it served as an enlightening experience. To think, “Hey, why can’t I hire a Deaf actor for this role. Maybe I’ll get something more out of it because of that”. An opportunity for audiences to come and enjoy theater in their own language and to not feel like they had to come to just the one signed performance where they get to look to the side of the stage but miss what’s happening on the stage.

I think that’s important because I think we’re supposed to as theater makers, it is our charge and our duty to reflect the world around us and not just the parts of the world that look just like we do.

[Patrick] We’ll leave you with a story from Spencer Liff about an experience he had at Pearl Studios, a place where a lot of theater auditions are held here in New York City.

[Spencer] A few days ago, there was a long line of girls standing outside an audition room, waiting to sing their 16 bars. And there was a girl in a chair in that line. I was so happy, immediately, thinking, the people in that room are going to be forced to think about nontraditional casting. They’re going to have to go, “Oh, could we put this character that’s not written as someone in a chair-” And then I thought, “Somebody in that room saw ‘Spring Awakening’, and maybe they’ll say they saw Ali Stroker and that it can be done”. This girl and I- This girl in the chair- We locked eyes. She lit up. She came over to me, and she knew who I was. Not only was she in a chair, but she was hard of hearing and wearing a hearing aid.

She was like, “I saw ‘Spring Awakening’, and for obvious reasons, I was incredibly inspired by both of those factors. I’m able to come to these auditions now and put myself in positions that- It doesn’t specify an actress in a chair”. I couldn’t get over that all day- What an impact Ali had made to this girl, and our show in general. How many of those stories there are of people that came to see our kids onstage inspiring them to go after their dreams and goals.

And that- I came home and called Michael Arden and told him that story, and both of us- It reminded us that it was bigger than what we had done in the theater, even. I was so happy I had that moment.

[Music: ‘Song of Purple Summer’] ♫ I will sing the song of a purple summer // All shall know the wonder ♫

[Patrick] Stay tuned after the credits for scenes for our next episode.

[Music: ‘The Bitch of Living’] ♫ God, I dreamed there was an Angel // Who could hear me through the wall // As I cried out like in Latin ♫

[Patrick] If you enjoyed today’s episode we would be super grateful if you take a minute to rate and review us on iTunes. You can also follow us on Twitter, we’re at ‘bwaybackstory’ (@bwaybackstory) and Facebook, where we’re at ‘BroadwayBackstory’.

Huge thanks to the people at ‘TodayTix’ who make this podcast possible. So just a little bit more about them. You guys, ‘TodayTix’ pioneered mobile lotteries and was the first to offer digital Broadway lotteries. With the ‘TodayTix’ app you can enter daily lotteries to win discounted or free tickets to selected Off-Broadway and Broadway shows. Share your entries on social media to double or triple your odds of winning. You can also sign up for alerts to get a reminder the next time a lottery is open for entry.

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Huge, huge, huge thanks first and for most to Alex Boniello, who helped arrange so many of the interviews I did for this episode. That kid has hair for days. You can follow him on Twitter at ‘alexboniello’ (@alexboniello).

Also, a huge thanks to Mr. Alex Wyse who stepped in at the last minute to provide the voice for DJ Kurs. That guy is hilarious on Twitter. You can follow him at ‘alexwyse’ (@alexwyse).

Special thanks for the invaluable production help from Steve Tipton, my husband who I really, truly could not make this podcast without.

Also, Mike Jensen, Matt Tamanini, Rickie Condos, Chloe O’Connor, and Chloe Lindt.

[Music: ‘The Bitch of Living’] ♫ God, my whole life's like some test // Then there's Marianna Wheelan ♫

[Music: ‘Legally Blonde the Musical’ “Oh My God Guys”] ♫ Dear Elle, honey, mazel tov // Future's taking off // Bring that ring back // And show it to me // Four carrots, a princess cut // Are you psyched or what? // I just wish I could be there to see // When he gets down on one knee // Oh my god, oh my god, you guys // Looks like Elle’s- ♫

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

[Laurence O'Keefe] And we got into a conversation about this phenomenon that happens to young women called “dumbing themselves down”. And I was like, “wait you’re kidding? That really happens?”. He said, “Oh, absolutely”. He said, you know, it’s one of the reasons that all girl schools became, you know, popular at some point. Because, they thought if they removed the male element from the equation, these girls could, you know, excel.

And having just seen ‘Legally Blonde’ the film, I got me thinking like, wow, here’s a girl who’s smart enough, if you think about it, to get into Harvard Law. And why does she do it? To chase the jerky guy.

And I thought, now that’s a story we gotta tell. And we immediately said, well there’s only one person who we know that we think is ready to direct and this is Jerry Mitchell.

[Jerry Mitchell] ‘Legally Blonde’ was a massive, massive undertaking and great learning experience. I was ready to tell that story. I knew how to tell ‘Legally Blonde’.

[Laura Bell Bundy] I sent him an email, and I just said, “Hey Jerry, I heard about ‘Legally Blonde’, I am so happy for you. You totally deserve this. You’re going to kill this. And by the way, I know someone who would be really, great for Elle Woods, wink, wink”. He responded back immediately and said, “Why do you think that I came to see you in ‘Wicked’ I wanted to see if you could carry a show”.

[Jerry] And then we opened in New York, and we got a rave from Variety and some other great reviews. But the only review that matter in New York City is the New York Times.

[Patrick] Do you have any thoughts on the reviews?

[Nell Benjamin] My general thinking on them was they were not particularly positive.

[Richard H. Blake] We were passed over for nomination for best musical, which look, at the end of the day, I’ve won Tonys. I’ve not won Tonys. At the end of the day it’s got to be about the work. ‘Legally Blonde’ is one of the things I’m proudest of, but I’m not going to say it didn’t hurt.

[Patrick] Next time on ‘Broadway Backstory’.

♫ [Music (no lyrics)] ♫

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For better or worse, our lives revolve around status updates. The more time you spend using social media, the more data you collect. While Facebook might have its own uses for that data, it’s likely to have value to you, as well. In this article, we’ll show you how to backup social media, so your data never gets lost in the shuffle.

A few years back, there were many tools to manage this process. All-in-one tools like Frostbox, Backupify and SocialSafe were popular, capable of managing multiple social media platforms, backing up Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and other services. There were many standalone tools, too.

Almost all of them have closed. It’s hard to say why. Many people don’t bother backing up social media data, while most social media services now let you download backup files directly.

We’ll cover steps to download backup files later. Because manual backups can be a pain and, even if you download your social media archives, you should still secure them in the cloud, we’ll first look at three Cloudwards.net favorites capable of Facebook and Instagram backup: pCloud, Acronis True Image and IDrive.

Cloud Backup for Social Media

Only a handful of cloud storage and online backup providers include social media backup, and only for Facebook and Twitter, but using one of these tools can save you time. In addition to providing benefits such as desktop and mobile backup, they offer synchronization and sharing.

There’s a difference between cloud storage and online backup that’s important to understand. When it comes to social media backup, however, they work more or less the same way, copying photos, videos and, occasionally, other information.

For a full look at providers of both types, we have guides for the best cloud storage and best online backup providers. For social media backup, the services below are your best bets.

IDrive: Facebook, Instagram

IDrive is one of the most versatile online backup services. A single subscription covers unlimited computers and IDrive provides smartphone backup, which few providers include. Social media backup for Facebook and Instagram is just the icing.

For Facebook and Instagram, IDrive protects photos and videos by storing copies on its cloud servers. Personal albums and media you’ve been tagged in are included in the backup, which could be useful since getting untagged and unfriended means you’d lose access to that content.

Backup is automatic and incremental, so only media added since your last backup gets copied. This saves time and bandwidth. You have to execute backups manually. This can be done from the IDrive web interface or from your Android or iOS device.

Affordable subscriptions are another reason to pick IDrive. You can get 2TB of backup for just over $50 a month or 5TB for just over $75. Either should be plenty of storage for your social media, desktop and smartphone content. There’s also a free 5GB plan.

For more information, including about features such as file sync and sharing, read our IDrive review.

Acronis True Image: Facebook, Instagram

While IDrive looks great on paper, it can be woefully slow. Rival Acronis True Image provides faster backups, thanks to a larger server network. It can also backup Facebook and Instagram, and does so more comprehensively than IDrive.

In addition to Facebook photos and videos, True Image preserves messages, contacts and likes. For Instagram, it saves all photos, a count of likes, tags and comments for each post.

True Image backs up both platforms continuously. That means you don’t have to kick off your social media backup manually like you do with IDrive. Backups are incremental, so only data that hasn’t already been saved gets copied.

Should your Facebook or Instagram profile be deleted, Acronis True Image can even restore backed-up content to a new profile.

All data gets encrypted at rest in the Acronis Backup Cloud using 256-bit AES. For more privacy, an option for private, end-to-end encryption is available. As noted in our Acronis True Image review, you need to set that up before you start your backup.

You can backup Facebook or Instagram from the True Image web dashboard or your smartphone. Like IDrive, True Image ranks among the best online backup for mobile devices, with Android and iOS apps that can protect contacts, photos, videos and text messages.

The only reason not to consider True Image over IDrive for social media backup is that the cost is higher. It costs $50 a year for 250GB of backup, about the same price as 2TB of IDrive backup. There’s no free Acronis True Image plan, but you can try the service for 30 days before making a decision.

pCloud: Facebook, Instagram

pCloud is a cloud storage service that ranks as one of the best Dropbox alternatives available, providing similar features and better security, thanks to a zero-knowledge encryption add-on called pCloud Crypto. While file sync, file sharing and saving hard drive space are the big benefits of pCloud, it can also backup social media.

To setup backup, log in to the pCloud web interface and click the “backups” link. There are several services listed there for backup, not just Facebook and Instagram, but Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive, too.

You’re only able to backup Facebook and Instagram albums, saving photos and videos. pCloud doesn’t look for tagged media, either.

While limited in social media backup features, pCloud provides plenty of space for your images. You can sign up for a free 10GB account, a 500GB account for $5 a month or a 2TB account for $8 a month. We rank pCloud among the best free cloud storage services and believe its 2TB subscription to be one of the best deals in cloud storage.

Cloudsfer Social Media Backup

Cloudsfer isn’t an online backup or cloud storage service, but a middleman designed to transfer files between them. Cloudsfer lets you perform manual and scheduled file transfers. It doesn’t have as many cloud service options as other entries in our best cloud-to-cloud management list, but it does outperform them when it comes to social media.

Options include Facebook, Instagram, Flickr and 500px, a cloud storage tool for photographers that has social media features.

Unfortunately, Cloudsfer can only move images and photos and doesn’t have an option for tagged content.

There is a free Cloudsfer plan. It doesn’t maintain file versions or provide filters, and you can only run one migration at a time, but that should be fine for social media backup.

With a Cloudsfer Personal plan, you can run three migrations at once, instead of just the one that the free plan permits. It’s too expensive for simple social media backup, though, at 75 cents a gigabyte, with a minimum charge of 8GB.

IFTTT Social Media Backup

While the tools mentioned so far work well for Facebook and Instagram, most other social media platforms are left out. Additionally, most online backup and cloud storage services don’t have native features to back up social media services. If your services of choice aren’t represented, one workaround is to use IFTTT for social media backup.

IFTTT provides a la carte integrations for web applications, many of which are cloud and social media services. The name stands for “if this, then that,” describing its cause-and-effect approach to automation. In a nutshell, an action occurs on one service, such as a social media tag, and that results in a trigger action, such as storing the tagged item in Google Drive.

It sounds complicated, but it isn’t. IFTTT has several recipes available for social media backup ready to go, so all you have to do is sign up and pick your poison.

We can’t cover all the possibilities, but here are a few recipes we found for social media backup:

Twitter: add files in tweets to Dropbox

Twitter: save tweets to Google Docs

Tumblr: backup posts to Google Drive

Tumblr: backup posts to Evernote

Facebook: backup photos to Google Drive

Facebook: backup photos to Dropbox

Pinterest: backup pins to Google Drive

Instagram: backup photos to Google Drive

We have an article on backup with IFTTT, though it doesn’t focus on social media.

IFTTT rival Zapier has ready-to-roll social media backup algorithms, too. We suggest exploring IFTTT first, though, since it’s free and Zapier isn’t. If you’d like more help making a decision, here’s an article pitting IFTTT against Zapier.

Manual Social Media Backup

While automation and the cloud work best for backup, most popular social media platforms have manual options for downloading your data. These can be stored locally, or locally and remotely, if you want to follow the 3-2-1 rule of backup.

LinkedIn Backup

You can export a .csv file containing your connection data directly from LinkedIn. The file includes name, title, company and email address. It’s not perfect, but it’ll, at least, preserve your network information, so that you don’t lose those important contacts.

To export your network connections from LinkedIn:

Click “my network” at the top of your homepage

Click “your connections number” on the left

Click “manage synced and imported contacts” on the top right

Click “export contacts” under the “advanced” header

LinkedIn will prepare your file and email you within a few minutes. That email will contain a link letting you download a .zip file that includes your connections.

Facebook Backup

Facebook makes it simple to obtain a copy of your backup data. Click the little downward arrow near the top of your account, then click settings. Click “your Facebook information” on the left.

To the left of the words, “download your information,” click “view.” You’ll be redirected to a page where you can create a backup file with your posts, photos, videos, comments, likes, friends and almost everything else you’ve ever done on Facebook.

There’s even an option for ad topics that Facebook has deemed relevant to you and your location history, which makes Mark Zuckerberg seem like the world’s biggest creep.

Pick what information you want, a date range, format and media quality. Once you’re done, you can disable Facebook’s location services, if you want (settings > security & location > location).

Twitter Backup

Download your Twitter archive by heading to your account settings and selecting “settings and privacy.” On the next page, scroll down and select “your Twitter data” on the left-side menu.

Next, scroll down to the bottom of the page. There will be a button for “request Twitter data.”

Click that and Twitter will prepare your file, sending you an email when it’s ready. You’ll then be able to download a .zip file with your Twitter archive.

Pro tip: if you’re using a backup service that automatically backs up by file type, that file will be automatically sent to the cloud. One such service is Backblaze. At $5 a month for unlimited backup, you won’t find a better deal. Read our Backblaze review for details.

Instagram Backup

As is the trend with social media, Instagram now provides a built-in feature to download your data for backup. This feature isn’t restricted to photos and videos. You can download a record of your archived stories, profile, contacts, likes, direct messages, searches and several other things.

To download your data, go to your profile page and select the “privacy & security” link. Scroll down and click “request download” under the “data download” header.

Input your email address and Instagram will let you know when your download file is ready, which can take up to 48 hours.

Final Thoughts

The key to backing up is thinking ahead. Though it seems reasonable to assume that your social media content will always be there, photos get deleted, friends unfriend and accidents happen, even in corporate data centers.

The best bet for keeping your Facebook and Instagram data preserved is using Acronis True Image, which continuously and incrementally backs up data. For a cheaper approach, both IDrive and pCloud work well, as does using IFTTT for social media and storage services that aren’t supported.

Share your thoughts on social media backup below and let us know what strategies you use. Thanks for reading.

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What are its weaknesses?

You have to pay to get your ads to a larger audience. The image quality inst too good. There are a lot of people on Facebook so it is very over saturated.

How many users does this platform have? Is this platform growing or declining?

Facebook has about 2 billion users and it is a growing platform.

What top tips would you give to a photographer looking to get the most out of it?

Pay for advertising, keep your account updated and post at prime times ( 8/9am and 5/6pm)

Name of social media platform:

Instagram

In a nutshell, what is it/what does it do? How can people interact with each other? What makes it different to other platforms?

Instagram is an image based social media. like comment follow direct message. its different because there are no text posts.

What are the strengths of this social media platform for a professional photographer?

Instagram is good because you can search things via hashtags. Pay for promotion and use it as a source of inspiration to see whats trendy.

What are its weaknesses?

You can only post 2 image sizes.

How many users does this platform have? Is this platform growing or declining?

Instagram is a growing social media with 800 million active monthly users.

What top tips would you give to a photographer looking to get the most out of it?

Drip feed your content. Dont post everything at once cause youll quickly run out of content.

Name of social media platform:

Youtube

In a nutshell, what is it/what does it do? How can people interact with each other? What makes it different to other platforms?

Youtube is a video sharing platform. You can subscribe to channels like and comment on videos. It is strictly video based.

What are the strengths of this social media platform for a professional photographer?

You can research how to do things and watch tutorials to teach yourself skills.

What are its weaknesses?

You cant direct message people or post photos.

How many users does this platform have? Is this platform growing or declining?

1 billion active monthy users. it is a growing paltform

What top tips would you give to a photographer looking to get the most out of it?

Use it if you want to show a behind the scenes look at what you did to create a shoot or if you want to learn a new skill. But for trying to get clients and make a business its not the best

Name of social media platform:

Tumblr

In a nutshell, what is it/what does it do? How can people interact with each other? What makes it different to other platforms?

Tumblr is a blogging website where you can make a various array of posts such as video, photo and text. you can reblog, follow, like, comment and direct message a blog.

What are the strengths of this social media platform for a professional photographer?

you can post your own work and write a lot about it. You can post your portfolio and links to your other social media sites. You can look up hashtags.

What are its weaknesses?

You cant be specific in your search. Not very professional. Most users are between 15 and 25

How many users does this platform have? Is this platform growing or declining?

30 - 50 million users. It has dropped the last few years.

What top tips would you give to a photographer looking to get the most out of it?

Look to see what the trends are in the photography hashtag and try to make your work in the same style so you get onto the top seaches of the tag.

Name of social media platform:

Snapchat

In a nutshell, what is it/what does it do? How can people interact with each other? What makes it different to other platforms?

Snapchat is a photo based social media where you can post images that last up to10 seconds traditionally, now you can put them to post for an unlimited amount of time. You can add people to be on your friends list but they have to add you back to be able to message them unless they have their account public. It is different because the posts disappear after 24 hours.

What are the strengths of this social media platform for a professional photographer?

You can show behind the scenes on how you do stuff.

What are its weaknesses?

You cant advertise your account. The image quality isnt great as it only uses the phone camera. not professional. You cant link other accounts unless you post it every day.

How many users does this platform have? Is this platform growing or declining?

150 million active daily users and it is a growing site.

What top tips would you give to a photographer looking to get the most out of it?

I wouldnt bother if you wanted to use it for business as it is more of a personal social media.

Name of social media platform:

Twitter

In a nutshell, what is it/what does it do? How can people interact with each other? What makes it different to other platforms?

Text based social media. follow like and retweet you can also direct message.

What are the strengths of this social media platform for a professional photographer?

You can link your other social media accounts and advertise.

What are its weaknesses?

You can only post 4 images at a time and there is a character limit for text posts.

How many users does this platform have? Is this platform growing or declining?

330 million active monthly users. It is a growing platform.

What top tips would you give to a photographer looking to get the most out of it?

Use it to post teasers and links to your other account.

Name of social media platform:

Flicker

In a nutshell, what is it/what does it do? How can people interact with each other? What makes it different to other platforms?

Photo hosting and organisation service. You can add them to your contacts list. You get 1 TB of free storage.

What are the strengths of this social media platform for a professional photographer?

You can organise your photos into ‘collections’ to keep them organised. You can send images straight from your computer.

What are its weaknesses?

It isnt great for client work as not many people use it.

How many users does this platform have? Is this platform growing or declining?

45 - 50 million active users.

What top tips would you give to a photographer looking to get the most out of it?

Good if you want to organise your photos but you wont get much client work from it.

Name of social media platform:

In a nutshell, what is it/what does it do? How can people interact with each other? What makes it different to other platforms?

Pinterest is a photo based platform that mainly shows inspiration and diy posts. You can pin posts to your own personal boards and create pins for things you have seen online. you can follow other people too.

What are the strengths of this social media platform for a professional photographer?

You can create mood boards to share with your clients. You can get inspiration and tutorials on how to do things.

What are its weaknesses?

You wont get much, if any client work. It is mainly used for looking at diy projects.

How many users does this platform have? Is this platform growing or declining?

150 million active monthly users and it is growing.

What top tips would you give to a photographer looking to get the most out of it?

It is helpful if you want to know what sort of work a client wants cause they can make and send you mood boards and vice versa, but you wont get work from it.

Name of social media platform:

In a nutshell, what is it/what does it do? How can people interact with each other? What makes it different to other platforms?

A social media for professionals, it is pretty much an online cv. you can direct message people. It is different from other sites because you can get work and message people about jobs they want doing.

What are the strengths of this social media platform for a professional photographer?

You can upload and keep a record of everything you have done. Used by lots of big companies so there is a chance to do a lot of work.

What are its weaknesses?

I dont think you would get much freelance work because its not really a general public social media.

How many users does this platform have? Is this platform growing or declining?

467 million members and its slowly growing.

What top tips would you give to a photographer looking to get the most out of it?

Keep it updated with your recent work

Name of social media platform:

Behance

In a nutshell, what is it/what does it do? How can people interact with each other? What makes it different to other platforms?

Online portfolio, almost like pinterest but you cant save things. you can appreciate posts and follow other users. It is mainly used by creatives.

What are the strengths of this social media platform for a professional photographer?

You can post at 150 dpi. It isn't overcrowded. Its mainly used by other creatives so you might find it easier to collaborate with other people

What are its weaknesses?

You cant direct message people and it isnt really used by the general public

How many users does this platform have? Is this platform growing or declining?

Around 50-60 million active monthly users and its a growing platform.

What top tips would you give to a photographer looking to get the most out of it?

Be an active user, follow and appreciate other peoples work and keep your page updated with your best work.

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richardrobertsimsuccessblog · 8 years ago

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The 9 Conversion Habits of the World’s Most Successful Bloggers

This is a guest contribution from John Stevens.

Just how do they do it?

From influencing millions to making millions, the world’s most successful bloggers manage to turn visitors into readers, readers into customers, and customers into fans without breaking a sweat.

But is it all accidental, or is there any science behind their success? Are there any habits successful bloggers follow? And if they do, what are they and why do they work?

In this post, I’ll give you answers to these questions, and more.

1. They use multiple opt-in boxes

According to research by ExactTarget:

“77% of consumers prefer to receive permission-based marketing communications through email”.

With email being such an effective method of conversion, top bloggers make sure they don’t leave any stone unturned in order to get visitors’ emails.

Using more than one opt-in box increases the chances of users signing up with you. But there is also a fine line before it gets annoying.

For example, Smartblogger keeps it very subtle. Jon Morrow asks for your email on the homepage and a popup when you’re about to leave the website.

This treads the fine line between “effective” and “annoying”. Since SmartBlogger is a writing-focused blog, the reduced visual clutter also fits its audience and brand image perfectly.

Neil Patel uses multiple opt-in boxes at QuickSprout – on the homepage, sidebar, as a popup and at the end of every blogpost. Some may argue he goes a little overboard but since Neil writes about marketing, his audience is likely forgiving of aggressive marketing tactics.

While you can debate merits and demerits of an aggressive opt-in box strategy, one thing is clear: they work.

Doing it too aggressively in a non-commercial niche might not be the best option, but at the very least, you should have 1-2 opt-in boxes throughout your site.

What you can learn from this:

Use more than one opt-in box on your site. Take advantage of pop-ups and above the fold area (see below) to maximize visibility for your opt-in boxes.

2. They make good use of “above the fold” area

“Above the fold” is the first half of a webpage that is visible without scrolling.

Whatever content you place above the fold is the first thing your visitors will see when they land on that page. If it is irrelevant, there is good chance they will leave the site before exploring further.

As Peep Laja of ConversionXL writes, “Content placed above the fold grabs our 80% of attention”.

Plenty of studies back this claim. According to an eye-tracking study by the Jakob Nielsen group, viewer attention drops dramatically beyond the fold.

Top bloggers understand this, which is why they use their above the fold area to introduce themselves to their audience, collect emails and put forth evidence of their success (such as reviews from other sites).

Tim Ferriss’ site Four-Hour-Workweek is a great example of this.

There’s lots of good stuff happening here.

Let’s drill down:

“About” the blog: This single statement – “If you could 10x your per hour output…” – tells readers everything they need to know about the blog.

Social proof/Proof from authority: By showing off quotes from authoritative publications, Tim leverages the principle of authority and social proof to show that his advice is valuable.

Opt-in box: Tim doesn’t just throw together an opt-in box; he shows readers exactly what they’ll get if they opt-in to this email list.

More proof from authority: Tim adds his NYT and WSJ bestseller tags for good measure to further attest to his expertise.

Also note how Tim uses his own face rather than a generic brand image.

Here’s another example from Noah Kagan, founder of OkDork:

Though not as busy as Tim’s homepage, it still follows the same principles:

Opt-in box: The opt-in box is easy enough to understand, but also note the headline: 85% of my best business hacks. Why not say “all of my hacks”? Because studies show that users fixate on numbers in headlines, not words.

“About” section: Noah uses the opt-in box section to quickly tell readers about himself and his past successes. Again, this is a form of persuasion through authority.

Social proof: “What others are saying” adds further social proof to Noah’s offer.

What you can learn from this:

Two things:

Use the above the fold area to tell readers about yourself and your blog while pushing a lead magnet.

Increase opt-in rates by using social proof and proof from authority via testimonials and quotes.

3. They make it easy to share content

Sharing might sound intuitive to us marketers and bloggers, but your average reader might never share your content unless you make it seamlessly easy to do so.

This is partly due to laziness – your readers don’t want to put in the effort to copy-paste URLs or think of tweets.

Partly, this is because your readers don’t even know how to share content.

In fact, a recent survey of computer users across 33 rich countries showed that only 5% of the population could do complex computer tasks, while 14% are “below level 1”.

Successful bloggers understand this very well. That is why they provide multiple easy options for readers to share content anytime they want.

For example, GrowthEverywhere uses multiple social sharing options on the side bar:

This allows readers to pick their favorite social media channel and share the article with one click.

Another tactic is to use plugins such as Click to tweet to get more shares from Twitter. This takes all the effort out of sharing on Twitter – readers can, well, click to tweet the highlighted text.

Here’s how Tim Soulo uses it on BloggerJet:

But simply flooding your posts with share buttons isn’t enough. Hick’s Law dictates that after a certain point, more choices simply confuses your users and discourages action.

To solve this problem, limit your sharing buttons to your top 2-4 networks. If you don’t have a lot of visual content, it doesn’t make sense to throw in Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr sharing buttons.

For example, Neil Patel uses just two social networks – Facebook and Twitter – on Quicksprout.

What you can learn from this:

Give users multiple sharing options but don’t flood them with too many choices.

Use plugins such as “Click to Tweet” to make sharing easier.

4. They use overlays to capture additional emails

Email is the foundation of blogging success.

Which is why bloggers keep coming up with innovative ways to capture more and more emails.

One such technique is called ‘welcome mats’.

Welcome mat displays a full-screen call to action that shows when visitors land on your website.

For example, this is how the welcome mat looks like when you visit Zac Johnson’s site.

As you scroll down, the welcome mat goes up and you are presented with the landing page.

SumoMe takes this a step further and uses custom welcome mats for each blog posts. A post about writing better headlines, for instance, shows this welcome mat:

Another popular overlay is to use a Slide-in CTA. This CTA enters the screen below your sidebar content so it doesn’t cover your main content:

Here is how Hubspot uses it:

What you can learn from this

Strategic use of overlays can get you additional conversions. However, make sure that they don’t hinder your user-experience. If someone has already signed up for your email list, hide all overlays from them.

Try using post-specific overlays to push content upgrades and highly targeted lead magnets.

5. They use static home pages to funnel additional leads

If you went back in time and visited ProBlogger.net back in 2013, this is what you’d see:

In contrast, ProBlogger’s homepage today looks very different.

What changed?

For one, ProBlogger’s new homepage doesn’t just show the latest posts. Instead, it pushes PB’s latest content, directs users to relevant categories (“I need help with…”) and also includes a prominent email capture form.

This is a tactic a growing number of bloggers are adopting. Instead of directing users straight to the blog, they direct them to a homepage instead.

Here, they can introduce themselves to their readers, direct them to their best content and capture emails.

For example, here’s Videofruit:

This also gives bloggers an opportunity to do some personalization.

For example, on ProBlogger, returning users are greeted with a “Welcome Back!” message while first-time visitors get links to introductory content.

What you can learn from this

Create a homepage instead of directing users straight to your latest blog posts. This gives you an opportunity to do so much more than just make them read your latest content.

6. They use social proof to build trust and authority

As per wikipedia:

“Social proof is a psychological phenomenon where people assume the actions of others in an attempt to reflect correct behaviour for a given situation.”

In a nutshell, we look at other’s opinions and signals to evaluate our own potential action.

Consider that:

Over 70% of Americans say they look at product reviews before making a purchase.

Nearly 63% of consumers indicate they are more likely to purchase from a site if it has product ratings and reviews.

Top bloggers take advantage of social proof in a number of ways:

By showing testimonials

This is perhaps the most common use of social proof that most (if not all) bloggers use.

According to the research done by Nielsen, “92% people trust a recommendation from a peer and 70% people will trust the recommendation from someone they don’t even know”.

For example, Copy Blogger shows testimonials from real people on their homepage.

By showing authority endorsement

Brian Dean from Backlinko uses testimonials from the big names in the marketing industry.

This is an example of the principle of authority where you leverage the authority of successful people to make yourself appear more trustworthy.

By showing the number of subscribers

For example, on Problogger’s homepage you’ll see this:

300,000 bloggers can’t be wrong, right? By showing that so many people have joined the community, ProBlogger shows that it is trusted by your peers.

By showing media mentions

This is another example of the principle of authority in practice. By showing that you’ve been featured in authoritative publications, you increase your own perceived authority as an expert.

For example, consider Growtheverywhere’s media mentions:

What you can learn from this:

Social proof can be hard to use if you don’t already have it. Showing off your subscriber count when you have just 300 subscribers isn’t very comforting.

To get around this problem, try to get featured in prominent publications or get interviewed by other bloggers.

You can then use the logos from these publications or quotes from others about you as social proof.

7. They use a “Start Here” page.

SmartBlogger does it.

SmartPassiveIncome does it.

Even ProBlogger does it.

I’m talking about a “Start Here” page.

As you can imagine, this is the “start” page for your blog, a page that tells readers who you are, what you blog about, and what they should read.

ProBlogger’s start here page, for instance, tells Darren’s story and shares a list of resources with readers.

Readers will often turn to the “Start Here” page when they land on your site for the first time. While you might have a detailed homepage, it can’t tell your story quite as effectively as a compelling “start” page.

It’s also a fantastic opportunity to collect emails and increase conversions.

What you can learn from this

Easy: create a start page for your blog. This page should:

Tell the reader who you are

Tell them what your blog is about

Direct them to appropriate resources

Set the tone for the rest of your content.

Once you’ve created this page, make it the first link in your navigation menu.

8. They make better use of the footer area

The footer area is often overlooked when designing blogs for conversion. We’re so fixated on the above the fold area that we completely forget about users who scroll all the way to the bottom (who, ironically, are also among your most engaged users).

The truth is that the footer matters even more than your middle ‘body’ content.

I’ll refer back to Nielsen group’s scrolling behavior study:

Notice how attention spikes right at the end of the page?

Successful bloggers understand this, which is why they use their footers to increase engagement and conversions.

For example, ProBlogger directs its readers to different resources on its site:

On Hosting Facts, you’ll see a three-column layout (like above) highlighting:

Top-performing content (in terms of revenue/conversions)

“Helpful links” directing users to “best-of” content

“Social proof” in the form of an established brand (Pingdom’s) logo.

You can also use the footer area to show users all your content and product offerings.

On Entrepreneur On Fire, for instance, John Lee Dumas shows all of EOFire’s offerings (trainings, podcasts and communities) in the footer of his blog content:

Since anyone who has reached the footer is likely already familiar with your content, directing them to high converting pages is a smart move. This is where you can make some additional conversions.

What you can learn from this

Take a close look at your footer and ask yourself: are you making the best possible use of this screen real estate?

If the answer is no, think of the links you can add here. Your best content (in terms of engagement and/or revenue) should get prime space in the footer, as well as your lead-gen forms, earnings disclaimer, and contact details.

9. They use prominent CTAs

What color CTAs do you use?

I know this might sound like a minor design quibble, but your CTAs have a big impact on your conversion rates.

For example, in one case study, changing the color from green to red increased conversion rates by 21%.

This might not sound a lot, but if you get 100 customers each month for a $100 product, you’ll make an extra $2,100 – with no extra work.

In the above example, the red button worked because it contrasted against the green of the logo. The green button, on the other hand, seemed to merge with the text.

Most successful bloggers follow this practice and make their CTAs very prominent.

For example, on Chris Ducker’s site, you’ll see a green CTA standing out against the orange text.

It’s the same on James Clear’s homepage – you see a green button standing out against a grey-white background.

There is actually a scientific reason why contrasting colors work so well in CTAs – the Von Restorff effect.

Also called the “isolation effect”, this principle states that when confronted with multiple stimuli (in our case, CTAs), the stimuli that stand out the most wins our attention.

What you can learn from this

Since your CTAs lead visitors to subscribe to your newsletter, download your eBooks or buy your courses, it makes sense to optimize it for higher CTR.

Try testing colors that stand out against your site background in your CTAs. The more prominent, the better.

Over to You

Building a high-converting blog isn’t a matter of chance; it is deliberately planned. While your content creation and distribution strategy will largely define your success, you can increase conversions dramatically by following the same tactics as the world’s best bloggers.

Start off with the 9 habits highlighted above. Once you’ve used them, share your results with me in the comments below!

John Stevens is the CEO of Hosting Facts, a startup that helps consumers make data-backed decisions when choosing web hosts. He is also a frequent contributor to WebsiteSetup where he helps businesses set up their website.

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