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FREE SPRING AWAKENING: A NEW MUSICAL PDF

Steven Sater,Duncan Sheik | 120 pages | 14 Nov 2008 | Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. | 9781559363150 | English | New York, United States Spring Awakening | Music Theatre International

I loved this show! Bill T. Add the effective Spring Awakening: A New Musical by with the smooth on-stage band and Spring Awakening unfolds as a most spirited and artsy musical. Based on the play Spring Awakening: A New Musical Frank Wedekind, set in Germany in a rural, conservative era, Spring Awakening tells Spring Awakening: A New Musical timeless story of teenage self-discovery and budding sexuality as seen through the eyes of three teenagers. Filled with suppressed sexuality due to ignorance and parental shame, this dark story depicts the generation gap conflicts sparked by teenage rebellion and their search for individuality fueled by ranging hormones. The folks have terrific, clear and articulate, voices that exude angst and frustration of growing up. All the voices were outstanding. The passion, power and poignancy is so thrilling and so truthful that it will make an indelible lasting impression into your psyche. Spring Awakening displays the tough side of coming of age with depictions of male masturbation, homosexuality, explicit sex acts and the reaction of parents. Spring Awakening musically brings the universal angst of teenagers deftly with style, loads of heart and skilled theatrical craft. At the Oriental Theatre, 24 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL, callwww. Tom Williams. Spring Awakening - A New Musical - Theatre reviews

This Tony Award-winner for Best Musical is based on the highly controversial and oft-censored play by German playwright Frank Wedekind. In late 19th-century Germany, teenagers struggle to cope with the Spring Awakening: A New Musical mysteries of puberty. When Melchior attempts to explain their sexual nature to him, they only get worse. Wendla attempts in vain to learn more about her body and her transformation to womanhood, but is instead forced to learn from experience. Melchior, the most handsome and intelligent boy in school, struggles to handle his changing emotions and give his friends the aid they need. Faced with sexual repression and an often-unjust class of adults, these teenagers attempt to walk the difficult road to emotional and physical maturity the best they can. Best Musical Show Album. . Broadway tickets, merchandise, music, videos, and all the news, reviews, and information you want about Broadway musicals, people, theatres, awards, and production rights at your home for all things Broadway. Spring Awakening: A New Musical for plays? Visit our sister site, Broadway Play Home. Toggle navigation Broadway Musical Home. Who starred in the original cast? Where can I buy the music? Find out at Broadway Musical Home. Story: In late 19th-century Germany, teenagers struggle to cope with the sexual mysteries of puberty. Parental Advisory: Spring Awakening: A New Musical Explicit Content. Cast and Creative Team. Songs, Videos, Sheetmusic and More. Musical Numbers. Mama Who Bore Me. All That's Known. The Bitch of Living. My Junk. Touch Me. The Word of Your Body. The Dark I Know . And Then There Were None. The Mirror-Blue Night. I Believe. The Guilty Ones. Don't Do Sadness. Blue Wind. Left Behind. Totally Fucked. Spring Awakening: A New Musical You've Known. The Song of Purple Summer. Awards and Reviews. Broadway Musical Home Broadway tickets, merchandise, music, videos, and all the news, reviews, and information you want about Broadway musicals, people, theatres, awards, and production rights at your home for all things Broadway. A Look Back at the Original Broadway Production of Spring Awakening | Playbill

The musical is based on the controversial play of the same Spring Awakening: A New Musical by Frank Wedekind. Set in late-nineteenth century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of Human sexuality. The original play was banned in Germany due to its portrayal of masturbation, abortion, rape, and suicide. In the musical, alternative rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score. After a Spring Awakening: A New Musical of workshops, concerts and rewrites over a seven-year period, Spring Awakening premiered Off- Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company on May 19, and ran through August 17, Spring Awakening received eleven Tony Award nominations, winning eight, including Tonys for Spring Awakening: A New Musical musical, direction, book, score and featured actor. The production is directed by Michael Mayer and choreographed by Bill T. Spring Awakening closed on Broadway on January 18,after performances on Spring Awakening: A New Musical, 29 previews. She tells her mother that it is time she learned from where babies come, considering that she is about to be an aunt for the second time, but her mother cannot bring herself to explain the facts Spring Awakening: A New Musical conception clearly to Wendla. Instead, she simply tells Wendla that to conceive a child a woman must love her husband with all of Spring Awakening: A New Musical heart. At school, some teenage boys are studying Spring Awakening: A New Musical in Latin class. When Moritz Stiefel, a very nervous and intense young man, sleepily misquotes a line, the teacher chastises him harshly. Moritz describes a dream that has been keeping him up at night, and Melchior realizes that Moritz has been having dreams of an erotic nature. To comfort the panicked Moritz, Melchior, who has learned sexual information from books, tells Moritz that all of the boys at their age get the dreams. Wendla stumbles upon Melchior while walking through the woods. The two share a moment while sitting together in front of a tree. Meanwhile, at school, Moritz is thrilled to learn that he has passed his midterm examinationsbut the teacher and schoolmaster cannot pass everyone, so they decide to fail Moritz. Martha, one of the teenage girls, accidentally admits to her friends that her father abuses her physically including sexual abuse and that her mother is either Spring Awakening: A New Musical or uncaring. The other girls are horrified to hear this, but Martha makes them promise not to tell anyone, lest she end up like Ilse, a friend from childhood who now wanders homeless and aimless because her parents kicked her out of the house. Later, Wendla finds Melchior again at his spot in the woods and tells him that her father regularly abuses one of her friends. Melchior reluctantly complies but is carried away and throws her to the ground. He then runs off, disgusted with himself, as she weeps curled up on the ground. Alone, Wendla finds that Melchior has left his journal on the ground. She picks it up and takes it with her. Moritz has failed his final examination, and his father reacts with disdain and contempt when Moritz tells him that he will not progress in school. Wendla finds him again, telling him she wants to return his journal, and each awkwardly apologizes for what happened the last time they met. Before long, they begin to kiss; Wendla resists his advances at first. Although she seems uncertain about how far she wants to take their physical relationship, they begin to have sex as the lights go down. After she has left, he calls after her, but it is too late; she is gone. Regretting his lost opportunity to follow Ilse, and believing that he has nowhere to turn, Moritz shoots himself. Elsewhere that night, Hanschen meets up with his shy and delicate classmate Ernst. Hanschen shares his pragmatic outlook on life with his classmate before seducing him. Wendla has become ill, and her mother takes her to visit a doctor. When her mother confronts her with this information, Wendla is completely shocked, not understanding how this could have happened. She realizes that her mother lied to her about how babies are made. Although she berates her mother for leaving her ignorant, her mother rejects the guilt and insists Wendla tell her who the father is. Wendla reluctantly surrenders a Spring Awakening: A New Musical note Melchior sent her after they consummated their relationship. At the reform school, Melchior gets into a fight with some boys who grab a letter he has just received from Wendla and use it in a masturbation game. As one of the boys reads from the letter, Melchior finally learns about Wendla and their child, and he escapes from the institution to find her. Spotting her freshly dug grave, Melchior discovers that Wendla has died from her abortion. Overwhelmed by shock and grief, he takes out a razor with the intention of killing himself. Before opening the show off-BroadwayDuncan Sheik had composed an arrangement of song demos for the original concept of Spring Awakening. The plot followed more closely to the original play 's plot. The play's major theme is sex and the discovery of it. The play Spring Awakening: A New Musical two conflicting views of sex: Melchior's flippant, hedonistic, purely physical view and the older generation's oppressive prudish view. In Act 1, it the play would seem to be promoting Melchior's view, but at the play's closure, the message is given that neither Melchior's view of sex nor that of the older generation is the right view to have, as both views led to pain and confusion. A main idea is that, while none of the deaths in the play would have occurred without sex, we couldn't have life in general without sex as well. Template:Cleanup-section A U. Tour dates have been announced through to May This production closed in March Spring Awakening at the Novello Theatre intaken shortly after the opening night. An English-language production will open in Valletta, Malta at the St. James Cavalier Theatre on 17 April, This production will be directed by Wesley Ellul, choreographed by Fiona Barthet, Renzo Spiteri will be the musical director, and Alex Vella Gregory will be the vocal coach. This will be produced by the MADC. It is often Spring Awakening: A New Musical for its use of eccentric interpretive dance and disco cubes. The second Swedish-language production will open in Helsingborg, Sweden on 20 March A Danish-language production will open in AalborgDenmark on 13 May There is a third Swedish production planned, as well as three productions in Norway. Spring Awakening: A New Musical South Korean production will open in Seoul in Romulo Auditorium from September 25 to October 17, The German-language premiere opened in Vienna, Austria in a limited run at the Ronacher Spring Awakening: A New Musical on March 21,and closed on May 30, The Finnish production opened in Helsinki in February Spring Awakening Tokyo. Sydney Theatre Company has announced they will stage the first Australian production in February A national tour is possible, but not confirmed. The official Brazilian production [non-replica] is set to open August 21st, in Rio de Janeiro. Wendla Spring Awakening: A New Musical be played by a year-old youngest Wendla ever. Outer Critics Circle Awards. Drama Desk Awards. Drama League Awards. Awards. Warner Brothers has announced consideration of making a movie adaptation of Spring Awakening. Template:Fact McG is announced as being attached to direct. Link title [[File: Media:Example. Template:External links. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Contents [ show ]. Original Concept Edit Before opening the show off-BroadwayDuncan Sheik had composed an arrangement of song demos for the original concept of Spring Awakening. and Duncan Sheik had originally intended for Wendla to actually be raped by Melchior at the end of "I Believe", but decided to change that plot because he wanted the scene to be more loving between the two characters, and "I Believe" didn't give off a "raping" kind of feeling. Both songs had the same theme, but because the directors had to reduce time for the show, "All Numb" was cut and replaced with "All That's Known". Though, Shiek thought that "The Bitch of Living", being more upbeat, fit the show better. Another song, entitled "Great Sex" which was intended to be performed after "Mama Who Bore Me Reprise "was also cut from the show because the directors thought the song pointed out the theme of the show too vaguely. Themes Edit The play's major theme is sex and the discovery of it. Atlantic Theater Company website with information about the off-Broadway production. Categories :. Cancel Save. Duncan Sheik. Steven Sater. Frank Wedekind 's play Spring Awakening.