Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening
Spring awakening- a musical sure to seal your hearts away is set out on display at off-Broadway's Atlantic Theatre Company, with the performance of Grammy nominee Duncan Sheik, a hot young cast, plus loads of critical acclaim!

Based on Frank Wedekind's contentious 19-century play, Spring Awakening boldly portrays how young people steer the breathtaking, perplexing and inexplicable time of their sexual awakening. Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's songs illuminate the volatile stress of adolescent self-discovery, the fervent early friendships and the emotional phase to an uncomprehending adult world. The story revolves around a brilliant young student named Melchior, his troubled friend Moritz and Wendla, a beautiful young girl on the verge of womanhood. Although the musical is set in the distant past but the outstanding cast adds a good flavor to it.

In the first act, Wendla Bergman, an adolescent girl, mourns that her mother mother never told her the truth of nature where babies come from, considering that she is about to be an aunt for the second time, but her mother cannot bring herself to explain it to Wendla. At school, some teenage boys are studying Virgil in Latin class. When Moritz Stiefel, a very nervous and intense young man, misquotes a line, the teacher punishes him. Moritz's best friend, the handsome and self-assured Melchior Gabor, tries to defend him, who instead has a taste the wrath of the teacher. Melchior reflects on the shallow narrow-mindedness of school and society, and expresses his intention to change things (All That's Known).

Wendla and Melchior after sharing a moment of intimacy,reflect on and discuss what has just happened (The Guilty Ones). Meanwhile, Moritz, having been thrown out of his home, wanders the town at dusk, carrying a pistol (Don't Do Sadness). He meets Ilse, also homeless, who invites him to join her in sharing some old childhood memories, and perhaps something more, but Moritz refuses (Blue Wind). After she has left, he calls after her, but she is gone. And thus, in desperation, Moritz shoots and kills himself. At Moritz's funeral, each of his friends drops a flower into his grave, and Melchior criticizes Moritz's father for being so cruel to his friend (Left Behind). Back at school, the schoolmaster and teacher inform Melchior that Moritz's parents found the sex essay he had written for him. They lay the blame on Melchior for his friend's suicide, and although innocent he knows there is nothing, he is aware of the fact that there is nothing he can do to fight them (totally fucked).