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2007 Drama Desk Award-winning "Outstanding Musical"

2007 Outer Critics Circle Award-winning "Outstanding New Broadway Musical"

2008 Tony Award-winning "Best Musical"

2010 Laurence Olivier Award-winning "Best New Musical"

 

 

a musical drama


by Duncan Sheik
and Steven Sater

based upon a play by Frank Wedekind


March 8-25, 2012


"...exhiliarating...bold, funny and inviting."
- The New York Times

     Created by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, this rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 German play is about teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. Thrillingly set to a contemporary rock beat, it addresses the difficult subjects of masturbation, abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide.

 

     The New York Times said, “in exploring the tortured inner lives of a handful of adolescents in 19th-century Germany, this brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill and quite a bit of the terror to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls sometime around the age of 13, well before most of us have the intellectual apparatus in place to analyze its impact. Spring Awakening makes sex strange again.”

 

     Spring Awakening is winner of the following: Tony Award for Best Musical (2008), Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical (2007), Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Musical (2007), Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical (2010), New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical (2007), Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical (2007), among others.

 

     Please note: Spring Awakening is a powerful coming of age story with mature themes: brief partial nudity, sexual situations and strong language. Recommended for ages 14 and up.

    

     Guest director is Paul Mitri ; guest musical director is Kenji Higashihama; choreographer is Cindy Hartigan. The cast is: Elise Levin as Wendla, Niki Badua as Martha, Rachel Wong as Thea, Michell Boudreau as Anna, Leiney Rigg as Ilse, Jonah Hookano as Melchior, Garett Taketa as Moritz, Joel Libed as Hanshen/Rupert, Gerald Mandac as Ernst/Reinhold, Seth N. Lilley as Georg/Dieter, Jesie Rocetes as Otto/Ulbrecht, Liz Stone as Woman, Craig Howes as Man, and Cassie Favreau-Chun, James Mares, Jason Loo and Natalie Capino as vocalists. James Mares is also Understudy to Melchior.

 

    Costumes are by Dusty Behner, lighting design is by Janine Myers, sound design is by Jason Taglianetti, set design is by Andrew Doan; hair and makeup design is by Greg Howell, and props design is by Sara Ward.

 

      TICKETS:

Adults: $35
Senior Citizens/Military: $30
Under 26yo: $20

To purchase tickets, click here.

      PERFORMANCES:

Thursdays 7:30pm
Fridays 8:00pm
Saturdays 3:00pm & 8:00pm
Sundays 4:00pm


Please Note:

All seating is non-reserved. Doors open 30 minutes prior to show time.

Running time of the show: approx. 2 hrs 20 minutes with one intermission

Minimum age: 14 yrs old due to adult language

Beer, wine, soft drinks, coffee: available for purchase on the lanai beginning one hour prior to all performances

  

Mahalo to our Show Sponsors

Mercedes Benz of Honolulu

Sunshine Arbor Care/Sunshine Landscape

Mahalo to our 2011-12 Season Sponsors

Richard Aadland Trust
Cades Schutte and The Cades Foundation
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Iolani School
Island Television KITV
Oceanic Time Warner Cable
Toyota Hawaii

This project is supported by funding from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

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