{"product_id":"spring-awakening-steven-sater-duncan-sheik","title":"Spring Awakening Steven Sater , Duncan Sheik","description":"\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls.”—Charles Isherwood, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The staggering purity of this show will touch all open hearts…In its refined, imaginative simplicity, it daringly reverses all the conventional rules by returning the American musical to an original state of innocence.”—John Heilpern, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“An unexpected jolt of sudden genius, edgy in its brutally honest, unromanticized depiction of human sexuality.”—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpring Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary new rock musical with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Duncan Sheik. Inspired by Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society’s efforts to control it, the piece seamlessly merges past and present, underscoring the timelessness of adolescent angst and the universality of human passion.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSteven Sater\u003c\/b\u003e’s plays include the long-running \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarbondale Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePerfect for You, Doll\u003c\/i\u003e (Rosenthal Prize\/Cincinnati Playhouse), \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUmbrage\u003c\/i\u003e (Steppenwolf New Play Prize), and a reconceived version of Shakespeare’s \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTempest\u003c\/i\u003e, which played in London.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuncan Sheik\u003c\/b\u003e is a singer\/songwriter who also collaborated with Sater on the musical \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Nightingale\u003c\/i\u003e. He has composed original music for \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Gold Rooms of Nero\u003c\/i\u003e and for The Public Theater’s \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwelfth Night\u003c\/i\u003e in Central Park.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Ex Libris Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44149523153123,"sku":"EXL1443","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5675\/7951\/files\/980045.jpg?v=1700153564","url":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismichigan.com\/products\/spring-awakening-steven-sater-duncan-sheik","provider":"Ex Libris Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}