Spring Awakening (Musical)
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| Title: | Spring awakening |
| Original title: | Spring Awakening |
| Original language: | English |
| Music: | Duncan Sheik |
| Book: | Steven Sater |
| Lyrics: | Steven Sater German: Nina Schneider |
| Literary source: | Frank Wedekind : Spring Awakening |
| Original direction: |
Michael Mayer Choreography: Bill T. Jones |
| Premiere: | May 19, 2006 |
| Place of premiere: | New York (Off-Broadway) |
| Place and time of the action: | 19th century |
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Teenagers
Difficult to educate boys
Adults
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Spring Awakening ( Eng . Subtitle: Das Rock-Musical ; Eng. Original Title: Spring Awakening ) is a musical by Duncan Sheik (music) and Steven Sater (book and lyrics), which is based on the drama of the same name by Frank Wedekind . The work from 1891, which was controversial at the time, is set in Germany in the late 19th century. It is about adolescents who are confronted with the problems of psychological instability and the social unacceptance of their sexual curiosity in the course of their puberty.
The previews for the German-language premiere of Spring Awakening in Vienna began on March 14, 2009. The premiere was on March 21, 2009. Until May 30, 2009 the piece could be seen in the Ronacher in Vienna . The German premiere took place on June 29, 2011 at the Deutsches Theater Munich under the direction of Matthias Davids in the new translation by Nina Schneider .
history
Spring Awakening was premiered after 5 years of development work in May 2006 on the so-called “Off-Broadway”. In December of the same year the play moved to the Eugene O'Neill Theater on Broadway and received outstanding reviews as well as eight Tony Awards , four Drama Desk Awards and a Grammy Award . The music is by Duncan Sheik, the musical book and the lyrics by Tony Award winner Steven Sater, the choreography is done by Bill T. Jones and the direction is Michael Mayer . In addition to a US tour and the London West End premiere, Germany, Canada, Austria, Brazil, Argentina, Israel, Japan, South Korea and Scandinavia are also planned as venues.
The piece is divided into two acts: Act 1 is divided into 11, Act 2 into 10 scenes.
content
Germany 1891, somewhere in a small town, the students Wendla Bergmann, Melchior Gabor and Moritz Stiefel experience the exciting turbulence of growing up. With their general curiosity about sexual topics and their specific questions, adults leave them alone. Bourgeois morality still advocates the stork. Left to their own devices, the young people find themselves in a fateful waters with life-threatening eddies. Moritz Stiefel is a poor student whose parents expect him to do very well at school. Melchior Gabor rejects church teaching and has a critical mind. Together with Wendla Bergmann and her classmates, they stumble into the typical problems of puberty: school performance, sexuality, detachment and a lack of education by the parents.
A love affair between minors that has consequences. Melchior is sent to an educational institution because he lets his best friend Moritz in on the secrets of sexuality and the differences between the sexes and because Wendla is pregnant by him. Shortly afterwards Moritz committed suicide because he could not cope with his own feelings and the pressure of his parents' expectations. Despite passing the exam, he was not promoted to school. Martha and Ilse have a dark secret that tells of domestic violence and sexual assault. Wendla, the young girl who gave herself up to her feelings for Melchior, dies in a forced abortion. An alleged bleaching is put forward as the cause of death .
main characters
- Wendla Bergmann: When she looks at herself in the mirror again, she realizes that her body has changed. She thinks about how children actually come about and asks her mother about the subject. This only indicates that a child arises when a man and a woman love each other with all their hearts.
- Melchior Gabor: He is a good student who questions many things and does not trust the information provided by parents or the church. With an illustrated essay on the differences between the sexes, he tries to help his friend Moritz better understand his emerging fantasies and the physical changes. He and Wendla father a child at a meeting in a hayloft.
- Moritz Stiefel: It's hard for him at school. To find out if he will be promoted to the next class, he secretly breaks into the principal's room. He finds out that he got the required number of points. But the teachers don't like him and decide differently. When he then asks Melchior's mother for some money to escape to America, Melchior refuses. Now he is thinking of putting an end to his life. His parents reproach him seriously when they learn that he has to quit school. Moritz finally leaves with a pistol in his hand. After his death, the document that Melchior had given him is found.
- Martha Bessel: She accidentally mentions in front of her friends that her father beats her almost every day and does other bad things to her. Her sister Ilse has already been put in front of the door and has found shelter in an artists' colony.
- Melchior's parents: When they find out what their son has done, they send him to the reformatory, because they hold him responsible for Moritz's death and because he brought shame on Wendla and her family.
- Wendla's mother: When Wendla suddenly appears to be sick, looks pale and is constantly throwing up, her mother takes her to the doctor who diagnoses her pregnancy. She decides to bring her daughter to Mr. Schmidt, who should remove the unborn child. Her daughter dies after the procedure.
Performances (selection)
- June 15 to August 5, 2006: Off-Broadway premiere of the "Atlantic Theater Company"
- December 10, 2006 to January 18, 2009: Eugene O'Neill Theater, New York.
- January 23 to March 21, 2009: Lyric Hammersmith, London and then until May 30 at the Novello Theater.
German-language premiere
- March 21 to May 29, 2009: Ronacher , Vereinigte Bühnen Wien
Performances in Germany
- June 29 to July 17, 2011: Deutsches Theater Munich .
- February 17 to March 30, 2012: Theater Baden-Baden
- 5th to 13th February 2018: TheaterAG “Jetztodernie” in the Brunsviga , Braunschweig
- February 10, 2017 to June 20, 2018 Oper Halle
- March 28th to 30th, 2019: free, non-profit youth project, Lübeck
Orchestration
- Bass, cello, viola, violin
- Drums, percussion, glockenspiel, tambourine, djembé, shaker
- guitar
- Harmonium, piano
- Tape
Music / songs
Musically, a mixture of rock, pop and folk rock songs is presented.
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1st act
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2nd act
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Cast (selection)
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Original cast
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Vienna / Ronacher:
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Awards
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New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
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Licenses for German productions
- Austria: Josef Weinberger Music Publishing Center Vienna
- Switzerland: Music publisher and stage distributor Zurich
- Germany: Music and stage publishing company Wiesbaden
literature
- Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater: Spring Awakening . Based on the drama by Frank Wedekind. Theater Communications Group, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-55936-622-9 ( books.google.de ).
- Sexuality awakens - and the consequences are devastating . In: Upper Austrian news . September 25, 2017 ( nachrichten.at ).
- Steven Sater talks about creating 'Spring Awakening' . In: Orange County Register . November 13, 2009 (English, ocregister.com ).
Web links
- Spring Awakening in the Internet Broadway Database
- One of the most important musicals of the last 20 years. Theater for Lower Saxony
- Spring Awakening review on allmusicals.com
Individual evidence
- ^ "Spring Awakening Synopsis" - Broadway musical. allmusicals.com, accessed February 9, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Spring Awakening Advance Approaches $ 2 million. Playbill.com, accessed February 9, 2018 .
- ^ Charles Isherwood: Spring Awakening Theater Review . In: The New York Times . December 11, 2006 (English, nytimes.com ).
- ^ Theater review: Spring Awakening, Lyric Hammersmith, London . In: The Guardian . February 8, 2009 (English, theguardian.com ).
- ↑ Sheik and Sater's Spring Awakening to Close in London May 30. Playbill.com, accessed February 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Spring Awakening - Ronacher Vienna. In: musicalzentrale.de. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Spring awakening . Musical World, accessed February 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Spring Awakening becomes Spring Awakening - Wedekind with music. In: musikundbuehne.de. February 10, 2012, accessed February 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Nowodernie - IGS music theater: FF presents "Spring Awakening". In: braunschweig.de. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .
- Jump up ↑ Spring Awakening. Retrieved June 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Spring Awakening - The Rock Musical. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
- ^ Rock musical "Spring Awakening" in Lübeck. In: LN-online.de (Lübecker Nachrichten). March 12, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 .