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Is Spring Awakening a musical?

Jeremy Anderson

Is Spring Awakening a musical?

Spring Awakening is a coming-of-age rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. It is based on the 1891 German play Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind.

Is Spring Awakening based on a true story?

It is based on the 1891 German play Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind. Set in late 19th-century Germany, the musical tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of adolescent sexuality.

What makes springspring awakening so special?

Spring Awakening was also the first Broadway production to provide interpretation for deaf-blind theatergoers.

Is Steven Sater working on a Spring Awakening remake?

“Steven Sater Working on Chitty Remake, Musical With Bacharach, Spring Awakening Film and More” Archived 2011-05-04 at the Wayback Machine Playbill. March 11, 2010 ^ Lloyd Webber, Imogen (2014-03-31). “Believe! Spring Awakening movie still on track with new song”. Broadway Buzz. Retrieved 2015-09-13.

Is Spring Awakening the first deaf play on Broadway?

In addition to having deaf cast members, it featured the first Broadway performer to use a wheelchair, Ali Stroker. Spring Awakening was also the first Broadway production to provide interpretation for deaf-blind theatergoers.

Who was in the original Spring Awakening on Broadway?

Following its conception in the late 1990s and various workshops, concerts, rewrites and its Off-Broadway debut, the original Broadway production of Spring Awakening opened at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on December 10, 2006. Its cast included Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Skylar Astin and John Gallagher Jr.

When did Spring Awakening win a Grammy Award?

Decca Broadway released the original cast recording on December 12, 2006, which won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2008. The guitar on which Sheik composed songs for Spring Awakening was included in the 2008 exhibition “Writing to Character: Songwriters & the Tony Awards” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.