Spring Awakening
Opening Night: October 10, 2006
Closing: January 18, 2009
Theater: Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Based on Frank Wedekind’s play of the same name, Spring Awakening boldly depicts how a dozen young people make their way through the thrilling, complicated, confusing and mysterious time of their sexual awakening.
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June 16, 2011
Did not merely open at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre last night. The action was more like ripping open, more like breaking out, more like tearing into the pretend pop and reused plots that pass for new musicals on Broadway today.
READ THE REVIEWApril 22, 2014
Beautiful, messy, exhilarating, awkward, vital: They’re all adjectives you might use to describe first love. So it’s fitting that you could also readily apply them to Spring Awakening, the imperfect but transcendent new musical." & "Offers a trip unlike any other you’re likely to experience this season.
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April 22, 2014
For anyone weary of pedestrian screen-to-stage adaptations or cut-and-paste jukebox assemblies, the arrival on Broadway of a truly original new musical like Spring Awakening is exhilarating" & "This strange, beguiling show is by no means flawless, but with subtle, nurturing changes, the creative team and cast have fashioned an already seductive work into something even more lovely and lyrical.
READ THE REVIEWApril 22, 2014
Great news for theatergoers who have craved a new musical with attitude, youthful exuberance and a fresh, gutsy sound. A serious show that raises provocative issues. And if Broadway audiences are lucky, it will run for many seasons to come.
READ THE REVIEWApril 22, 2014
Anyone who enters the Eugene O’Neill Theatre will be privileged to behold the wonder of theater that is Spring Awakening, arguably the most breathtaking American musical since Rent or even Sweeney Todd.
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April 22, 2014
Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s innovative, frequently brilliant musical version of Frank Wedekind’s shocking 19th-century play shines brightly on Broadway.
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April 22, 2014
The sweet sound of the future is what you hear these days on West 49th Street. It swells eight times a week in the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, where a spellbinding new musical, Spring Awakening, is up and running for, one hopes, a long time to come." & "Represents the sort of imaginative boost that the American musical desperately needs….Feels like an invigorating step in a more richly creative direction.
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