PhotosWith Spring Awakening Heading Back to Broadway, Check Out These Pics From the First Opening Night in 2006!Spring Awakening, the Tony Award-winning rock musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, opened on Broadway Dec. 10, 2006. We take a look back at Playbill.com's coverage of the big opening night!
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Matthew Blank
July 08, 2015
The musical, which starred Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff, took home eight 2007 Tony Awards, including Best Book (Sater), Best Choreography (Bill T. Jones), Best Direction (Michael Mayer), Best Featured Actor (John Gallagher, Jr.), Best Lighting Design (Kevin Adams), Best Orchestrations (Sheik), Best Score (Sheik and Sater) and Best Musical.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.