Cast of Spring Awakening
Cast Of Spring Awakening
Yesterday I went to see the new American musical ‘Spring Awakening’ at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. The musical is based on the German play by Frank Wedekind’s who wrote it in 1891. It was banned and only had a private performance at the Royal Court in 1963. The play was about teenage sexual awakenings against a backdrop of religious and parental repression. Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph wrote”With titles like Totally F***ed and The Bitch of Living the songs, are sometimes aggressively in your face. But more often the musical numbers have a bruised tenderness about them.”
The young cast are all excellent in there parts, and this is their first time on the west end stage.
You can see more of the show and videos from it at www.springawakening.co.uk
It is only onto the 13th March unless it gets a transfer to another theatre. It is in the style of Hair and Rent, but it is not just for young people, but for young at heart who can remember their teenage years.