Spring Awakening

2013-01-02
Spring Awakening

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  • Author: Frank Wedekind
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1625585934
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 142

Set in late 19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. The plays performance was threatened with closure when the city's Commissioner of Licenses claimed that the play was pornographic, due to its portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse, and suicide, but a New York trial court issued an injunction to allow the production to proceed.

Spring Awakening

2008-09-02
Spring Awakening

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  • Author: David Cote
  • Publisher: Gallery Books
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 184

"Synopsis. The official companion to the Broadway musical. A heart-pounding score. A heartrending story. A barrier-breaking fusion of morality, sexuality, and rock & roll. No wonder Spring Awakening has awakened audiences like no other musical in years. Based on the infamous 1891 Frank Wedekind play and featuring an original score by Grammy-nominated recording star Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, Spring Awakening is a story of uncontrollable emotions and undeniable passions, of first loves and lasting regrets. Haunting and electrifying, the show celebrates the unforgettable journey into adulthood with a power and a poignancy that you will never forget. Spring Awakening: In the Flesh is more than just a companion book--t's a new opportunity to experience the show. Designed to resemble a vandalized book, this beautiful volume offers more than one hundred photographs, handwritten drafts of hit songs, original sketches of costumes and sets, an annotated, unabridged libretto, and unprecedented access to the hit show, making Spring Awakening: In the Flesh a must-have for fans of all ages."--Publisher's information.

Spring Awakening

2010-02
Spring Awakening

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  • Author: Steven Sater
  • Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
  • ISBN: 145876706X
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 174

Spring Awakening is an extraordinary new rock musical with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Duncan Sheik. Inspired by Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society's efforts to control it, the piece seamlessly merges past and present, underscoring the timelessness of adolescent angst and the universality of human passion.

The Awakening of Spring

1910
The Awakening of Spring

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  • Author: Frank Wedekind
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

That it is a fatal error to bring up children, either boys or girls, in ignorance of their sexual nature is the thesis of Frank Wedekind's drama "Frühlings Erwachen." From its title one might suppose it a peaceful little idyl of the youth of the year. No idea a could be more mistaken. It is a tragedy of frightful import, and its action is concerned with the development of natural instincts in the adolescent of both sexes. The playwright has attacked his theme with European frankness; but of plot, in the usual acceptance of the term, there is little. Instead of the coherent drama of conventional type, Wedekind has given us a series of loosely connected scenes illuminative of character-scenes which surely have profound significance for all occupied in the training of the young. He sets before us a group of school children, lads and lassies just past the age of puberty, and shows logically that death and degradation may be their lot as the outcome of parental reticence.

Spring Awakening

2008
Spring Awakening

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  • Author: Frank Wedekind
  • Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • ISBN: 9780822222811
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 68

THE STORY: First performed under heavy censorship in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind's play closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid public outrage and charges of obscenity. The play's content was radical indeed: teenage sex, suicide, aborti

Spring Awakening

1979
Spring Awakening

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  • Author: Frank Wedekind
  • Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780871294258
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 92

Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced Wedekind's notorious play "Spring Awakening "was written in 1891 but had to wait the greater part of a century before it received its first complete performance in Britain, at the National Theatre in 1974. The production was highly praised, much of its strength deriving from this translation by Edward Bond and Elisabeth Bond Pable, 'scrupulously faithful both to Wedekind's irony and his poetry.' "The Times" This translation of "Spring Awakening "was first performed at the National Theatre, London on 24 May 1974. For this edition the translator, Edward Bond, has written a note on the play and a factual introduction to Wedekind's life and work.

Alice By Heart

2020-02-04
Alice By Heart

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  • Author: Steven Sater
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0451478150
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 290

A young girl takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII and confronts grief, loss, and first love with the help of her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, in the debut novel from Tony Award-winning playwright Steven Sater. London, 1940. Amidst the rubble of the Blitz of World War II, fifteen-year-old Alice Spencer and her best friend, Alfred, are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. Sick with tuberculosis, Alfred is quarantined, with doctors saying he won't make it through the night. In her desperation to keep him holding on, Alice turns to their favorite pastime: recalling the book that bonded them, and telling the story that she knows by heart--the story of Alice in Wonderland. What follows is a stunning, fantastical journey that blends Alice's two worlds: her war-ravaged homeland being held together by nurses and soldiers and Winston Churchill, and her beloved Wonderland, a welcome distraction from the bombs and the death, but a place where one rule always applies: the pages must keep turning. But then the lines between these two worlds begin to blur. Is that a militant Red Cross Nurse demanding that Alice get BACK. TO. HER. BED!, or is it the infamous Queen of Hearts saying...something about her head? Soon, Alice must decide whether to stay in Wonderland forever, or embrace the pain of reality if that's what it means to grow up. In this gorgeous YA adaption of his off-Broadway musical, the Tony Award-winning co-creator of Spring Awakening encourages us all to celebrate the transformational power of the imagination, even in the harshest of times.

Carbondale Dreams

1991
Carbondale Dreams

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  • Author: Steven Sater
  • Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • ISBN: 9780822201816
  • Category : Carbondale (Ill.)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 102

THE STORY: The setting is Carbondale, Illinois, where the Bader family has set down roots and prospered. The youngest (and still unmarried) son, David, a poet who now lives in New York, has come home for Thanksgiving. At first the reunion seems to

Drama High

2014-10-07
Drama High

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  • Author: Michael Sokolove
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 1594632804
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 371

The inspiration for the NBC TV series "Rise," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez — the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino. Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of Les Misérables? To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe. Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows such as Rent and Spring Awakening before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation. Volpe’s students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers, entertainment executives, newscasters, and community-theater founders. Michael Sokolove, a Levittown native and former student of Volpe’s, chronicles the drama director’s last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage. This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater.

The Metal Children

2010-04-13
The Metal Children

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  • Author: Adam Rapp
  • Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
  • ISBN: 1429995947
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 133

A play about a banned book, a small town, and fiction’s power to both divide and unite, from the “prodigiously talented” Pulitzer Prize finalist (Charles Isherwood, Variety). In small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism. The decade-old novel’s directionless New York City author arrives in town to defend the book and finds that it has inspired a group of local teens to rebel in strange and unexpected ways. A timely and unforgettable drama about the failure of urban and heartland America to understand each other, The Metal Children explores what happens when fiction becomes a matter of life and death. Acclaim for Adam Rapp “An original . . . a distinctive voice.” —Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press “An oblique and haunting style reminiscent of Haruki Murakami’s best fiction.” —Ed Park, The Village Voice “Rapp is a latter-day incarnation of Sam Shepard.” —John Lahr, The New Yorker