SPRING AWAKENING

Spring Awakening, the breakthrough Broadway show that won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Musical, comes to Staller Center for one memorable night on its national tour. Called "brave, haunting and electrifying," it is a unique rock musical about young love, sexual urges, and repression brought to painful life.

Spring Awakening is set in Germany, 1891, a world where the prudish grown-ups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body, and wonders aloud where babies come from. 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. The uniformed schoolboys rock out with fervor and scream to be heard. And a passionate, fumbling romance changes characters' lives irrevocably.

The musical is based on a controversial German play by the same name so daring in its depiction of teenage self-discovery it was banned from the stage and not performed in its complete form in English for nearly 100 years.

Spring Awakening, a show for mature audiences, is explicit in bringing dark and difficult themes to the stage. The award-winning music is by rock composer Duncan Sheik, with choreography by the acclaimed Bill T. Jones.

Sheik, with choreography by the acclaimed Bill T. Jones.

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