SPRING AWAKENING
Cincinnati Actor’s Studio & Academy
July 29-Aug. 8
Essex Studios [Avondale]
Directed & choreographed by Gina Cerimele-Mechley
Music direction by Joseph Ivan
Cast: Alaska Stoughton as All Adult Women, Justin Huddilston as All Adult Men, Frankie Montazemi as Anna, Alex Simpson as Ernst, Ethan Baker as Georg, Worley Stidham as Hanschen, Maddi O’Connell as Ilse, Chloe Price as Martha, Alex Pletikapich as Melchior, Nick Swope as Moritz, Jason Coffenberry as Otto, Claire Adams as Thea & Cassandra Reeves as Wendla
Ensemble: Dani Underdown, Bryn Studer, Connor Williamson, Elliet Malatesta, Kayamarie Roll, Sabrina Mack, James Pinkley, Sean Britton, Grace Davis
The award-winning musical “Spring Awakening” is a rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. It is based on the 1891 German play Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, whose work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the development of theatre of the absurd. Wedekind was also a life-long guitar player and surely would have been a rock star today. Hence, the 21st-century musical blends the 19th-century play with an alternative rock score.
- Thu-Sun, July 29-Aug 1 at 7:30pm
- Thu-Sun, Aug. 5-8 at 7:30pm
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