`Spring Awakening´ brings rock attitude to tale of teenage challenges
(WorldNews Entertainment)

When the musical `Spring Awakening` made its way to Broadway in late 2006 after multiple workshops, it quickly entered the somewhat rarified group of popular plays that thoroughly embraced a rock score. It followed the footsteps of musicals such as `Hair,` `The Who´s Tommy` and `Rent.` `Spring Awakening` played on Broadway for more than three years and collected eight Tony Awards. A 2015 revival won three more Tony Awards. All that for a production based, of all things, on a German play written by Frank Wedekind in 1891. The music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater modernize Wedekind´s look at a restrictive society of adults facing teenagers dealing with sexuality, their...