Broadway’s most talked about new musical is now the biggest Tony® Award Winner in years. SPRING AWAKENING is the groundbreaking fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll that has awakened Broadway like no other musical in years.
Winner of 8 Tony® Awards including BEST MUSICAL, SPRING AWAKENING celebrates the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with a power, a poignancy and a passion you will never forget. We agree with the New York Times “Broadway may never be the same again!”
Blake Bashoff and Steffi D. who portray the leads “Moritz” and “Ilse” in the smash Broadway show were in studio today to perform and talk about the show. “Spring Awakening” is showing at
ASU Gammage through December 14th. Based on a novel written in 1891, the show won 8 Tony awards last year, with music by singer/songwriter Duncan Sheik. With its controversial themes and powerful story line, “Spring Awakening” has developed an incredible following.
Bashoff plays “Moritz”, a young man struggling to live up to his father’s expectations, while Steffi D portrays a young bohemian runaway. TV audiences have seen Blake Bashoff in many guest and recurring appearances including the hit series “Lost” and “Judging Amy” as well as the HBO’s Emmy Award winning “A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire Story”.
Steffi D is one of Canada’s newest stars, with appearances on Canadian television as well as being awarded top finalist for “Canadian Idol”.
Tickets for “Spring Awakening” are available at
http://www.asugammage.com or at 480-784-4444
Contains strong language and mature themes.SYNOPSISIt’s Germany, 1891. A world where the grown-ups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body, and wonders aloud where babies come from, till Mama tells her to shut it, and put on a proper dress.
Elsewhere, the brilliant and fearless young Melchior interrupts a mind-numbing Latin drill to defend his buddy Moritz – a boy so traumatized by puberty he can’t concentrate on anything. Not that the Headmaster cares. He strikes them both and tells them to turn in their lesson.
One afternoon – in a private place in the woods – Melchior and Wendla meet by accident, and soon find within themselves a desire unlike anything they’ve ever felt.
As they fumble their way into one another’s arms, Moritz flounders and soon fails out of school. When even his one adult friend, Melchior’s mother, ignores his plea for help, he is left so distraught he can’t hear the promise of life offered by his outcast friend Ilse.
Naturally, the Headmasters waste no time in pinning the “crime” of Moritz’s suicide on Melchior and expel him. And soon Mama learns her little Wendla is pregnant. Now the young lovers must struggle against all odds to build a world together for their child.
