- Spring Awakening is a rock musical that uses alternative rock music and a folk-infused rock score created by Duncan Sheik.
- The musical Spring Awakening is based on the 1891 German play by Frank Wedekind also called Spring Awakening.
- The original Broadway production of Spring Awakening opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on December 10, 2006.
- Key cast members of the original Broadway production included Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, and John Gallagher Jr.
- Spring Awakening won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, Direction, Book, Score, and Featured Actor.
- The musical was revived on Broadway in 2015 and received three Tony Award nominations.
- A documentary titled Spring Awakening: Those You've Known, chronicling a 15-year reunion of the original cast, was released on HBO in 2022.
- The West End production of Spring Awakening won four Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical.
- Spring Awakening has been produced in various international locations, including Sweden, Budapest, Vienna, and more, following its success on Broadway.
- The story of Spring Awakening revolves around the tumultuous discoveries of adolescent sexuality in late 19th-century Germany.
- Act II of the Off-Broadway production originally opened with the musical number 'There Once Was a Pirate', which was replaced by 'The Guilty Ones' in later productions.
- The original Broadway cast recording features a switch in the order of the songs 'The Guilty Ones' and 'Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind' compared to the stage performance.
- In the musical, all the roles of adults are traditionally played by just two actors, a man and a woman. However, the 2015 Broadway revival featured two pairs of adults, including one deaf/HoH pair.
- The 2021/22 London run saw the reintroduction of the song 'There Once Was a Pirate' in place of 'The Guilty Ones', showcasing the fluidity in musical numbers in different productions.
- The character Moritz's funeral scene is pivotal as each child character drops a flower into his grave, symbolically touching on the factors that led to his tragic end.
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