The original cast of 'Spring Awakening"'perform onstage at the 61st Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 10, 2007 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images) Bryan Bedder/Getty Images) Spring Awakening is returning to New York.
A revival of the Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s musical will run Off-Broadway this fall at Studio Seaview. Danya Taymor, a Tony winner for her direction of The Outsiders, will direct. The production has not yet announced any casting and plans to hold open call auditions in July.
Celia Rowlson-Hall, who has worked in music videos and short films, will choreograph the revival, which will feature music supervision by Or Matias.
The musical, which features a rock score, is based on the 1891 play by Frank Wedekind, which follows a group of teenagers in 19th-century Germany who are discovering their sexuality and rebelling against the strict rules set by their parents.
The musical premiered on Broadway in 2006 and helped launch the careers of Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele and John Gallagher Jr, before embarking on a run in London’s West End. It returns to New York after a Deaf West Broadway revival in 2015, which featured a company of deaf and hearing actors. Groff, Michele and several other original cast members held a one-night reunion concert in 2021, and then performed a number at the 2022 Tony Awards to mark the 15th anniversary of the musical.
An HBO documentary Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known documented the path to the one-night concert in November 2021.
The original production won eight Tony Awards at the 2007 ceremony, including for best musical, direction, book and score. Michael Mayer, who directed Chess on Broadway this season, was the original Broadway director of the musical.
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