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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 . Set in late 19th-century Germany, the musical tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of adolescent sexuality .
The controversy primarily stemmed from the unconventional staging of the opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The production featured Mario Cavaradossi as an alter ego of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini , who was murdered in 1975, trying to draw parallels between them as artists seen inconvenient to religious and political powers.
The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood by Frank Wedekind at Project Gutenberg, translated by Francis J. Ziegler; Study guide to the play. Spring Awakening at the Internet Broadway Database; Spring Awakening at the Internet Off-Broadway Database; The Awakening of Spring public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Spring Awakening catapulted stars Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff and Skylar Astin to fame when it hit Broadway in 2006 — and created an original musical that inspired a generation. "I just learned ...
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A rock musical is a musical theatre work with rock music.The genre of rock musical may overlap somewhat with album musicals, concept albums and song cycles, as they sometimes tell a story through the rock music, and some album musicals and concept albums become rock musicals.
Operation Spring Awakening (German: Frühlingserwachen), Nazi Germany's last World War II offensive Spring Awakening Music Festival , an annual musical festival held in Chicago. Topics referred to by the same term
Lea Michele Sarfati (/ ˈ l iː ə m ɪ ˈ ʃ ɛ l / LEE-ə mish-EL; [2] born August 29, 1986) [1] is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She began her career as a child actress on Broadway, appearing in productions of Les Misérables (1995–1996), Ragtime (1997–1999), Fiddler on the Roof (2004–2005), and Spring Awakening (2006–2008).