Fri, Dec 20
|The Delaware Contemporary
Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening, the landmark musical with a pop-rock score by singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by playwright Steven Sater, brings all the angst, romance, tragedy, and poetry of adolescence to City Theater Company in December 2024.
Time & Location
Dec 20, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Delaware Contemporary, 200 S Madison St, Wilmington, DE 19801, USA
About the event
The musical is based on a play by German playwright Frank Wedekind, written in 1891 and suppressed from being performed until 1906 for its frank condemnation of sexual and social taboos disguised as righteous correctness. The plot is deceptively simple. A small group of teenagers in a Victorian-era German town wrestle with their literal “awakening” on all things related to love and sex under, or perhaps in spite of, the eyes of their watchful and neglectful parents and teachers.
NOTE: Rated R for mature audiences. Please note that Spring Awakening includes profanity, and deals with sensitive themes, including, but not limited to, sex, pregnancy, child abuse, death, and suicide.
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Book & Lyrics by Steven Sater. Music by Duncan Sheik. Orchestrations by Duncan Sheik. Vocal arrangements by AnnMarie Milazzano. String Orchestrations by Simon Hale.
Produced on Broadway by, IRA PITTELMAN, TOM HULCE, JEFFREY RICHARDS, JERRY FRANKEL, ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY, Jeffrey Sine, Freddy DeMann, Max Cooper, Mort Swinsky/Cindy and Jay Gutterman/Joe McGinnis/Judith Ann Abrams, ZenDog Productions/CarJac Productions, Aron Bergson Productions/Jennifer Manocherian/Ted Snowdon, Harold Thau/Terry E. Schnuck/Cold Spring Productions, Amanda Dubois/Elizabeth Eynon Wetherell, Jennifer Maloney/Tamara Tunie/Joe Cilibrasi. The world premiere of “SPRING AWAKENING” was produced by the Atlantic Theater Company by special arrangement with Tom Hulce & Ira Pittelman.
Spring Awakening is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com