Spring Awakening
Book and Lyrics by Steven Slater
based on the play by Frank Wedekind
Music by Duncan Sheik
Directed by David Hudgins
Musical Director Andy Toth
Choreographer Shelley Stuart Hunt
at Studio 58, Langara College
Jan 31 to Feb 24, 2013
Vancouver, BC: I have been waiting to see this show for several years. It seems like every time it is on in a particular city, I have either just missed it or leave before it opens so I am glad to have finally caught this show, especially with the talented students of Studio 58 taking on what is quite a challenging work.
Based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play, Spring Awakening, about burgeoning sexuality in a group of young people in 19th century Germany, the rock musical adaptation does not hold back in portraying the raw sexuality of the youth in question, nor the fears and the ignorance of both youth and adults in the provincial German town in which it's set.
Spring Awakening
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