Spring awakening is a tony awardwinning rock musical with music by duncan sheik and book and lyrics by steven sater. Sater and sheik also took home the tony award for original score and best musical spring awakening. Inspired by frank wedekinds controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and societys efforts to control it, the piece seamlessly merges past and present, underscoring the. Performed for one night this august this website uses cookies. Spring awakening, book and lyrics by steven sater, music by duncan sheik. Spring awakening lights up round house theatre with. Listen to whats in the heart of a child winner of eight tony awards and four olivier awards, spring awakening is the contemporary musical adaptation of one of literatures most controversial and frequently banned plays.
Spring awakening by duncan sheik and lyrics steven sater, 919 may 2012. Risley theatre, 2016 cornell university book and lyrics by steven sater music by duncan sheik based on the play by frank wedekind directorrebecca saber. Steven sater is known for his work on spring awakening, chitty chitty bang bang and the cake eaters 2007. Sater won for book of a musical and sheik won for orchestrations.
Spring awakening s tony awardwinning creators, duncan sheik and steven sater, will join current broadway cast members and producer tom hulce to celebrate the release of in the flesh at the. A production of spring awakening, by duncan sheik and steven sater, rehearsed in thirtysix hours. Against a backdrop of energetic poprock music, we discover a group of adolescents in the midst. This spring awakening isnt a religious experience, exactly, but its deserving of worship nonetheless. Inspired by frank wedekinds controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and societys efforts to control it, the piece seamlessly merges past and present, underscoring the timelessness of adolescent angst and the universality of human passion. Spring awakening, is an amazing adapation of wedekinds, springs awakening first written in 1899. Spring awakening by sater, steven 9781559366229 brownsbfs. Steven sater has two musicals in preproduction and is actively developing two other shows, while nudging spring awakening toward the big screen. In 2007, spring awakening was nominated for 11 tony awards and won 8. In spring awakening, with a ravishing rock score by the playwright steven sater and the singersongwriter duncan sheik, flesh makes only a single, charged appearance. Spring awakening, which opened last night at the atlantic theater company, is an adaptation of the oncescandalous 1891 play by frank wedekind, the german playwright who is. It is based on the 1891 german play spring awakening by frank wedekind.
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