Spring Awakening-The Musical
“They stood perplexed in top hats, as if round the carcass of a vulture. Bewildered crows.”
Berthold Brecht about Franz Wedekind’s funeral
The musical version of a once highly controversial play, Spring Awakening, by Franz Wedekind, opened at Garfield High School’s Quincy Jones Performing Arts Center this week. Although the musical version, with music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Steven Sater. won numerous Tony awards on Broadway, in my opinion, it was the sort of play that should never be adapted into a musical.
