Spring Awakening!

I saw Spring Awakening last night, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. I've seen so, so many musicals in the last few years, and it's been a long time since I've walked into a theatre and not known anything about what I was about to see. And then was blown away. I mean seriously, OMG. I'd heard a little buzz that the soundtrack was awesome and that this was the new Rent, but it affected me much more than I expected it to.

Spring Awakening was a play written by Frank Wedekind in 1891, and it focused on teen angst in a small German town in the late 19th century. And perhaps not surprisingly, the angst in the play is utterly and completely relevant to the 21st century. So they took this play and set it to a pop-rock score, and the result is this fantastic musical. The energy of the songs and the cast has this feeling of being barely-contained, like they're all so full of life and excitement (and hormones) that they just might burst. And oh it blew me away! It affected me so much that I couldn't stop thinking about it, and even dreamed about it last night.

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I have so much more I could say, but I don't have much time. I just felt the need to squee about it a little! And I'm going to buy the soundtrack next chance I get. :-D