The Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik musical Spring Awakening will get an Off Broadway revival this fall at Studio Seaview, with Tony-winning director Danya Taymor (The Outsiders) and Aftersun actor Celia Rowlson-Hall making her theatrical debut as a choreographer.
Seaview will produce, with Or Matias as music supervisor.
The new production will hold open call auditions on July 10 and July 11, with further details to be announced on the production’s social media accounts.
In its announcement, Seaview said the 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, the production will explore the experience of young people caught between desire, repression, fear, and discovery — then and now.”
The synopsis: “Spring Awakening follows a group of late 19th century German adolescents as they explore teenage sexuality and repression through a contemporary rock score.”
The musical debuted on Broadway in 2006 with future 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.
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