Spring Awakening

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Spring Awakening is a Tony Award–winning rock musical that adapts Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play about adolescent sexuality, repression, and self-discovery.

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instanceOf rock musical
stage musical
authorOfOriginalSource Frank Wedekind
basedOn Spring Awakening self-linksurface differs
surface form: Spring Awakening (play)
bookWriter Steven Sater
broadwayOpeningDate 2006-12-10
choreographer Bill T. Jones
composer Duncan Sheik
director Michael Mayer
feature contemporary rock score with period setting
use of handheld microphones
genre coming-of-age musical
rock musical
hasRevival 2015 Broadway revival of Spring Awakening
language English
lyricist Steven Sater
notableSong And Then There Were None
I Believe
Mama Who Bore Me
My Junk
Song of Purple Summer
The Bitch of Living
The Dark I Know Well
The Mirror-Blue Night
Totally Fucked
Touch Me
orchestrator Duncan Sheik
originalBroadwayLeadCharacter Melchior Gabor
Moritz Stiefel
Wendla Bergmann
originalBroadwayProducer Ira Pittelman
Tom Hulce
originalBroadwayTheatre Eugene O'Neill Theatre
premieredAt Atlantic Theater Company
premiereDate 2006-06-15
revivalCompany Deaf West Theatre
revivalDirector Michael Arden
setting late 19th-century Germany
subject adolescent sexuality
repression
self-discovery
theme conflict between youth and authority
religious hypocrisy
sexual repression
transferredTo Eugene O'Neill Theatre
wonAward Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Musical
surface form: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
surface form: Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Award for Best Orchestrations
Tony Award for Best Original Score
Best Sound Design of a Musical
surface form: Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical

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Brooks Atkinson Theatre notableProduction Spring Awakening
Lea Michele notableWork Spring Awakening
Lea Michele appearedIn Spring Awakening
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Aneurin Barnard notableWork Spring Awakening
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Jonathan Groff notableWork Spring Awakening
Jonathan Groff theaterProduction Spring Awakening
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Tom Hulce producedWork Spring Awakening
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Spring Awakening basedOn Spring Awakening self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Spring Awakening (play)
Blake Bashoff notableWork Spring Awakening
Blake Bashoff notableWork Spring Awakening
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Blake Bashoff castMemberOf Spring Awakening
this entity surface form: Spring Awakening (Broadway)
Kate Burton theatreWork Spring Awakening
John Gallagher Jr. notableWork Spring Awakening
Kimiko Glenn performedIn Spring Awakening
this entity surface form: Spring Awakening (stage production)
Jenna Ushkowitz performedIn Spring Awakening