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The Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik musical Spring Awakening will get an Off Broadway revival this autumn astatine Studio Seaview, pinch Tony-winning head Danya Taymor (The Outsiders) and Aftersun character Celia Rowlson-Hall making her theatrical debut arsenic a choreographer.
Seaview will produce, pinch Or Matias arsenic euphony supervisor.
The new production will hold open call auditions on July 10 and July 11, pinch further details to beryllium announced connected nan production’s social media accounts.
In its announcement, Seaview said nan revival will bring Spring Awakening into an “intimate Off Broadway setting, returning the musical to the raw force and urgency of Frank Wedekind’s once-banned 1891 play.” The announcement continued, “Feral, honest, compassionate, and unflinching, nan accumulation will research nan acquisition of young group caught between desire, repression, fear, and find — past and now.”
The synopsis: “Spring Awakening follows a group of precocious 19th century German adolescents arsenic they explore teenage sexuality and repression through a contemporary rock score.”
The musical debuted connected Broadway successful 2006 pinch early stars Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele and John Gallagher Jr., and was directed by Michael Mayer. Spring Awakening was revived in 2015 in a Deaf West Theatre production directed by Michael Arden.
