Spring Awakening, the Tony-award-winning Best Musical for 2007, launched the first leg of a national tour in San Francisco earlier this September. Far headier than the jukebox musicals lately filling the Rialto, this re-imagining of the 1891 Frank Wedekind play mashes-up its German fin de siècle setting with a lyrical vernacular that would be right at home in Juno (see Act Two's showstopper "Totally Fucked").
It's not for nothing that Wedekind is held to be the Father of Expressionism; Spring...
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