Spring Awakening

Name: Spring Awakening
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 2006-12-10
Duration: 2 h 10 min
Cast: Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, John Gallagher Jr., Skylar Astin, Gideon Glick

Spring Awakening (2006)

2:10 (130 min)

Music, Drama

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Actors and characters

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Director

Scenario

Actors

Melchior Gabor

Wendla Bergmann

Moritz Stiefel

Georg Zirschnitz

Ernst Röbel

Thea

Hanschen Rilow

Martha Bessell

All actors and roles (10)

Short description

Set in late 19th-century Germany, Spring Awakening tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of teenage sexuality and adolescence. Suppressed by an unyielding and repressive adult society, the youths turn to rock music as a vessel to voice their desires, fears, and rebellious spirits.

What's left behind the scenes

Prior to the stage premiere, Duncan Sheik recorded several demo versions of compositions that did not make it into the final version of the musical. Nevertheless, the majority of the musical's plot is based on the play.
The song 'All That's Known' replaced the composition 'All Numb'. Both songs convey the same idea, but the first composition turned out shorter, which is why it made it into the final version.
'A Comet On Its Way' was replaced by 'The Bitch Of Living'. Both songs contain similar thoughts, but Duncan Sheik felt that the second composition was more dynamic and better fit the overall tone of the musical.
The song 'Those You've Known' replaced the composition 'The Clouds Will Drift Away', as Sheik wanted the musical theme of the three characters to more closely resemble the theme from 'All That's Known'.
Originally, 'Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)' was intended to be performed after the song 'Touch Me'.
The songs 'Touch Me' and 'The Mirror-Blue Night' had reprises, and 'Mama Who Bore Me' was even repeated a third time. Even 'There Once Was A Pirate', which was cut from some versions, had a reprise.
The musical won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
According to the original concept by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, Melchior was supposed to rape Wanda at the end of 'I Believe,' but the authors wanted the relationship between the young people and their intimacy to be filled with love. In the first version, the musical number ended with the girl's screams while the young man raped her.