DWSA cast members perform “The Song of Purple Summer” backstage at 54 Below

Deaf West Spring Awakening cast members perform “The Song of Purple Summer” backstage at 54 Below

Song by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik

Performers include:
Alexandra Winter
Ali Stroker
Daniel David Stewart
Krystina Alabado
Kathryn Gallagher
Joshua Castille
Alex Boniello
Daniel N. Durant
Austin P. Mckenzie
Sandra Mae Frank
Miles Barbee
Sean Grandillo
Ren Putz
Katie Boeck

There are some people in this video who’s faces and names I am unfamiliar with. If anyone recognizes them please reach out so I can name them!

Lyrics:

Listen to what's in the heart of a child,
A song so big in one so small
Soon you will hear where beauty lies,
You'll hear and you'll recall
The sadness, the doubt, all the loss the grief,
Will belong to some play from the past,
As the child leads the way to a dream a belief,
A time of hope through the land

A summer's day
A mother sings
A song of purple summer
Through the heart of everything

And heaven waits
So close it seems
To show her child the wonders
Of a world beyond her dreams

The earth will wave with corn
The day so wide, so warm
And mares will neigh
With stallions that they mate
Foals they've borne
And all shall know the wonder
Of purple summer

And so I wait
The swallow brings
A song of what's to follow
The glory of the spring

The fences sway
The porches swing
The clouds begin to thunder
Crickets wander murmuring

The earth will wave with corn
The day so wide, so warm
And mares will neigh
With stallions that they mate
Foals they've borne

And all shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer
All shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer
And all shall know the wonder
Of purple summer