Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening! Spring Awakening! 67 days til Spring Awakening!

May just be the best musical ever...besides Rent, of course.

(Ok, so it's better than Rent. But there's no Anthony. So that loses points.)

Songs:

(Act I)

Mama Who Bore Me
Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)
All That's Known
The B**** of Living
My Junk
Touch Me
The Dark I Know Well
The Word of Your Body
And Then There Were None
The Mirror-Blue Night
I Believe

(Act II)

The Guilty Ones
Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind
Left Behind
Word of Your Body (Reprise)
Totally F****d
Whispering
Those You've Known
Song of Purple Summer

Bonus Track (soundtrack):

There Once Was a Pirate

Themes:

Teenage love, sexuality, finding yourself.

Includes:

Suicide, sex scene, homosexuality, child abuse, rape, masturbation, beating scene.

Sounds terrible, right?

Wrong.

It's so tastefully done, and the music is so hauntingly beautiful. Seriously. Go listen to it!

(Well...don't listen to Totally F****d with parents around!)

I absoultely canNOT wait to see this (tour cast) on APRIL 26, 2009!!!!!!

Favorite Characters:

Ilse, Melchior, Anna, Ernst

Favorite Couples:

Handschen/Ernst
Wendla/Melchior
(SHOULD BE!!) Moritz/Ilse

Favorite Songs:

Totally F****d
Mama Who Bore Me
Those You've Known
Song of Purple Summer

♥♥♥♥♥♥

Quote of the Blog:

Spring and summer every other day; blue wind gets so lost, blowin' through the thick corns, through the bales of hay.

xoxo Meg