Duncan Sheik Teases SPRING AWAKENING Movie; Filming in Spring 2013 & New Cast?

[Rob]

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[Wildcard]

While I would wish for this to be rated R, realistically a musical movie with a young cast would likely aim for PG-13. Too much $ at stake.

[mybigsplash]

"Totally ***ked" could not be done PG 13. Unless they cut the song.

[CurtainPullDowner]

I hope it's in 3D!

[hyperbole_and_a_half]

I remember being stuck in a doctor's office waiting room and watching some teen soap opera where the school musical was Spring Awakening and thinking what high school in their right mind would do a show with nudity, masturbation, suicide, sadomasochism, child molestation, abortion, the F-bomb and bukake in it? Then I thought, well, isn't that the point?

What I am saying is: dumbing down Spring Awakening to a PG-13 rating by stripping out anything suggestive just to appease the uptight parents of teenagers seems to be 100% antithetical to its message. But who knows? Selling out worked for Rent.

[CurtainPullDowner]

The bukake scene is essential.

[Jordan Catalano]

That's what they said about HELLO, DOLLY but the movie worked without it.

[FlowerChild67]

This is actually a conversation my friend and I often have had. While cutting out language and subect matter would indeed be almost ruining its message, if it was made into a PG-13 movie, so many more people could see it, and therefore be introduced and changed by its brilliance. I guess it's just a double-edged sword:/