STAGE TUBE: SPRING AWAKENING's Michael Arden Sings THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME's 'Out There'

Michael Arden, director of Deaf West Theatre's current Broadway revival of SPRING AWAKENING, was seen earlier this year on stage at the Paper Mill Playhouse, starring in the title role of the U.S. premiere production of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME.

As a guest at the October 8th edition of Seth's Broadway Chatterbox at Don't Tell Mama, Arden sang one of the powerful ballads from the Alan Menken/Stephen Schwartz score, "Out There.'

Michael Arden made his Broadway debut as Tom Sawyer in the 2003 Deaf West revival of BIG RIVER. The next year he starred Off-Broadway in BARE, A POP OPERA. Other New York credits include Adam Bock's SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOWS at Second Stage Theatre and Twyla Tharp's Broadway musical, THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN', based on the music of Bob Dylan.

Deaf West Theatre's acclaimed production of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's SPRING AWAKENING, directed byMichael Arden and choreographed by Spencer Liff, opened on Sunday night, September 27, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

SPRING AWAKENING, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2007, will run 18 weeks only, through Saturday, January 9. It will be performed simultaneously in American Sign Language and spoken and sung in English by a cast of 28. Deaf West Theatre was last represented on Broadway with the triumphant production of Big River in 2003.

Based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 expressionist play of the same name and featuring an electrifying pop/rock score, SPRING AWAKENING follows the lives of a group of adolescents as they navigate their journey from adolescence to adulthood in a fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll. An extraordinary creative team including Michael Arden and Spencer Liff has reinvented the groundbreaking musical about lost innocence and the struggles of youth in true Deaf West style.

With music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Peter Parnell, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME premiered in the U.S. at California's La Jolla Playhouse in October of 2014 and moved to New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse in March of 2015. A new production is set for Utah's Tuacahn Amphitheatre during the summer of 2016.

The American Premiere Studio Recording of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME will be released on Monday, November 20th. Click HERE to sign up for pre-sale information!

This studio recording, the first ever of the acclaimed American stage score based on the Academy Award-nominated film, will feature a 25 piece orchestra, a choir of 32 and some of Broadway's most formidable talent: Michael Arden (Big River) as Quasimodo, Patrick Page (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) as Dom Claude Frollo, Ciara Renée (Pippin) as Esmeralda, Andrew Samonsky (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) as Captain Phoebus de Martin and Erik Liberman (Lovemusik) as Clopin Trouillefou.