Music by: Duncan Sheik
Book and lyrics by: Steven Sater
Based on play by: Frank Wedekind
Directed by: Michael Mayer
Choreography by: Bill T. Jones
Synopsis: Adapted from Frank Wedekind's controversial masterpiece about a dozen young people and how they make their way through the thrilling, complicated, confusing and mysterious time of their sexual awakening.
NYTHEATREREVIEWS.COM:
In terms of musicals, it's the best thing on Broadway right now. Contemporary. Unique. A bit raunchy. Full of honest emotion and great music. One of the only musicals on Broadway in recent history that is actually taking the genre in a new direction. Although it deals with teenage sex in a very frank way, this is an amazing show for teenagers and adults. I wish I had this show around when I was a teenager.
NEW YORK TIMES:
"But in exploring the tortured inner lives of a handful of adolescents in 19th-century Germany, this brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill and quite a bit of the terror to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls sometime around the age of 13, well before most of us have the intellectual apparatus in place to analyze its impact. “Spring Awakening” makes sex strange again, no mean feat in our mechanically prurient age, in which celebrity sex videos are traded on the Internet like baseball cards."
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NEW YORK POST:
"And so it was at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre last night when the gritty, groundbreaking "Spring Awakening" gave an unexpected jolt of sudden genius to wake up the hidebound Broadway musical. "
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USA TODAY:
"Beautiful, messy, exhilarating, awkward, vital: They're all adjectives you might use to describe first love. So it's fitting that you could also readily apply them to Spring Awakening, the imperfect but transcendent new musical that opened Sunday at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre."
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VARIETY:
"For anyone weary of pedestrian screen-to-stage adaptations or cut-and-paste jukebox assemblies, the arrival on Broadway of a truly original new musical like "Spring Awakening" is exhilarating. Seven years after it was first workshopped, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's artful reinterpretation of the 1891 German Expressionist drama has deepened considerably. The show's long evolution and further fine-tuning since its hit run at Off Broadway's Atlantic Theater early this summer have amplified its resonance, adding texture and poignancy."
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NEW YORK SUN:
"Every now and then, critics get a chance for a do-over. Case in point: "Spring Awakening," the rock-music reimagining of Franz Wedekind's 1891 broadside against the sexual hypocrisies of provincial Germany. When it opened off-Broadway this summer, I could barely wait to get home and type the following: "‘Spring Awakening' is the most thrilling rock musical of the last decade." Six months later, as so often happens, passions have simmered. Opinions have deepened and clarified. So allow this cooler head to modify the above sentence. "Spring Awakening" is, in my measured opinion, the most thrilling rock musical ever."
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