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Spring Awakening
Music by Duncan Sheik  
Book and lyrics by Steven Sater


Direction and Design by Jo Ann Cimato
Music Direction by Lilli Wosk
Choreography by Doug Elkins with Krista Jansen
Technical Direction by Dave Moodey

April 26, 27, 28 & May 3, 4, 5, 2012


CAST & STAFF

Spring Awakening in the Press

"The Little Black Box That Could: This Is How We Do It New York City Public School Style" from The Huffington Post

"Three Years After Broadway, Spring Awakening Rocks NYC Public School " from Playbill.com

"PHOTO CALL: Spring Awakening Returns to NYC in Public School Staging" from Playbill.com

"High School Musical, Uncensored: AtSpring Awakening‘s First Uncut High School Performance" from The New York Observer


"Manhattan’s Beacon School takes a shine to ‘Spring Awakening’ in 1st NYC Revival" from The New York Daily News

Spring Awakening Behind the Scenes

  • A Little History - The Wedekind Play
  • A Little More History - The Musical Adaptation

"It’s Germany, 1891. A world where the grown-ups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body, and wonders aloud where babies come from, till Mama tells her to shut it, and put on a proper dress. Elsewhere, the brilliant and fearless young Melchior interrupts a mind-numbing Latin drill to defend his buddy Moritz – a boy so traumatized by puberty he can’t concentrate on anything. Not that the Headmaster cares. He strikes them both and tells them to turn in their lesson. One afternoon – in a private place in the woods – Melchior and Wendla meet by accident, and soon find within themselves a desire unlike anything they’ve ever felt. As they fumble their way into one another’s arms, Moritz flounders and soon fails out of school. When even his one adult friend, Melchior’s mother, ignores his plea for help, he is left so distraught he can’t hear the promise of life offered by his outcast friend Ilse. Naturally, the Headmasters waste no time in pinning the “crime” of Moritz’s suicide on Melchior and expel him. And soon Mama learns her little Wendla is pregnant. Now the young lovers must struggle against all odds to build a world together for their child."       - Stage Agent

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