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Spring Awakening

Shows · Spring Awakening

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
Music: Duncan SheikLyrics: Steven SaterBook: Steven Sater

Productions3 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
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.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Spring Awakening matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature38 passages

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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