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Spring into action

With a youthful cast under Michael Baron’s direction comes a highly satisfying Oklahoma premiere. In the much-lauded Spring Awakening, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik have adapted Frank Wedekind’s 1891 German tragedy about teenage angst and sexual awakening into a musical. Employing contemporary slang and combining the 19th-century setting with a rock score, the show attempts […]

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Spring fling

Set aside the electronic gadgets and the technological advances, and you’ll see that the modern-day teenager isn’t too different from a 19th-century one. And Spring Awakening, showing at the Lyric at the Plaza, is a Tony Awardwinning musical that explores the enduring theme of young love. Awakening is the adaptation of a 1891 play written […]

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