“Spring Awakening” – 100% – Sweet
Colin Mitchell | Nov 10, 2008 | Comments 0 |
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It’s a beautifully produced, directed, acted, and choreographed piece of high-spirited and exciting rock and roll. Unfortunately, Wedekind gets lost in the process.
Robert Machray – Stage Mage
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Representing one of the more stylish examples of the new wave of musicals ushered in by “Rent,” “Spring Awakening” understands that all students at this awkward, mixed-up age — even those living in some pastiche version of late 19th century Germany — are rock stars in their own tormented minds.
Charles McNulty – Los Angeles Times
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I found myself more dazzled than moved, but dazzle can be a good thing, and the production is too ornate an accomplishment to be ignored.
Steven Leigh Morris – Los Angeles Weekly
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This highly imaginative production paints a moral space as an illuminated womb where the only way out is by kicking and screaming.
Craig – Los Angeles City Zine
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This very cool and very spicy rock musical – at the Ahmanson as part of its national tour – arrives in a blaze of buzz, energy and critical steam trumpeting the reinvention of the musical as we know it.Evan Henerson – LA Daily News
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Keeping the play’s time and place intact, this iconoclastic new musical juxtaposes Wedekind’s story to the musical styles and the culture of the 21st century, ingeniously fusing past and present to forge a fresh and incisive look at timeless social issues affecting our youth.
Les Spindle – Backstage
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