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Spring Awakening

by Steven Sater

Spring Awakening

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    Called “the best new musical in a generation” by The New York Observer

    The musical is praised as “the best new musical in a generation,” and another review calls it a show of staggeri...

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Spring Awakening

Steven Sater’s musical adapts Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play about adolescent sexuality and the social forces that seek to control it. The work combines a historical source with a past-and-present frame, connecting its questions about adolescence and human passion across eras. Its form is a rock musical, with Sater providing the book and lyrics and Duncan Sheik the music. The description places the piece at the intersection of musical theatre, coming-of-age themes, and debates about how society responds to young people’s sexuality.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in rock musicals and contemporary musical theatre.
  • Those exploring stage works adapted from classic or controversial plays.
  • Readers interested in adolescence, sexuality, and social control as theatrical themes.

Themes

Adolescence and coming of ageSexuality and social controlThe relationship between past and present

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Book overview

"This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

"The staggering purity of this show will touch all open hearts...In its refined, imaginative simplicity, it daringly reverses all the conventional rules by returning the American musical to an original state of innocence."--John Heilpern, The New York Observer

"An unexpected jolt of sudden genius, edgy in its brutally honest, unromanticized depiction of human sexuality."--New York Post

Spring Awakening is an extraordinary new rock musical with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Duncan Sheik. Inspired by Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society's efforts to control it, the piece seamlessly merges past and present, underscoring the timelessness of adolescent angst and the universality of human passion.

Steven Sater's plays include the long-running Carbondale Dreams, Perfect for You, Doll (Rosenthal Prize/Cincinnati Playhouse), Umbrage (Steppenwolf New Play Prize), and a reconceived version of Shakespeare's Tempest, which played in London.

Duncan Sheik is a singer/songwriter who also collaborated with Sater on the musical The Nightingale. He has composed original music for The Gold Rooms of Nero and for The Public Theater's Twelfth Night in Central Park.

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