Thursday, November 06, 2008
Awakened!
I don't see enough theater, and a visit from my awesome baby sister is a terrific excuse to remedy this. Last week, we saw the superb, touching Spring Awakening, with great insights into budding adolescence, very immediate and relevant notwithstanding its setting in 1890s Germany...
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We saw 'Awakening' at the beautiful Eugene O'Neill theater - our seats were excellent - third row, front and center. A few lucky audience members actually sat on the stage! They were seated on bleachers on either side of what served as classroom, barn, town square, and prison....
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The male lead, Melchior, was recently taken over by Hunter Parrish of 'Weeds,' who is both talented and easy on the eye... Parish and co-star Lea Michele indelibly render the stirrings of nasscent sexuality... to memorable music..
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From the 2007 Tony Awards telecast, the cast performs a medley of memorable highlights.. They won Best Musical that year...
Old photo from a 1970 non-musical London production 'Awakening,' translated from Frank Wedekind's German original..
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