Spring Awakening
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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.
- Opened
- 2006
- Performances
- 859
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 2007.
Productions4 on Broadway
| 2006 | Eugene O'Neill Theatre Original. December 10, 2006 · Michael Mayer | 859 performances · 8 Tony wins |
| 2009 | Lyric Theatre Transfer. January 23, 2009 | |
| 2009 | Novello Theatre Original. | |
| 2015 | Brooks Atkinson Theatre Revival. September 27, 2015 · The Forest of Arden | 135 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 4 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Spring Awakening matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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38 passages naming Spring Awakening, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Director Michael Mayer shepherded Spring Awakening throughout a seven-year trail of workshops, concerts, and rewrites before the show opened at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre Company in May of 2006. The show then repeated its success when it moved to Broadway that fall. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p329
2007: The Coast of Utopia, Radio Golf (A), Spring Awakening (M) book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p433
Best New Play: Spring Awakening (Zeitgeist Stage Company) book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p443
Spring Awakening 859 performances Opened December 10, 2006 Closed January 18, 2009 book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p457
Spring Awakening; the vaudevillian movie adaptation The 39 Steps, a hit both on Broadway and Off- (oddly enough, in that order); Donald Margulies’ war-haunted domestic drama Time Stands Still Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's angsty-teen musical Spring Awakening book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p346
2007: Spring Awakening; Spring Awakening was nominated for Outstanding Musical at the Drama Desk Awards in 2008. book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p428
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