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Early last semester me and my dear friend Shari bought tickets to see Spring Awakening, winner of the Tony’s best musical for 2007, which we absolutely loved, even though overall it was a very depressing musical. And after all the theater is suppose to well…gay. It was a different kind of musical than the ones I’m used to watching, Rocky Horror, the Forbidden Zone, etc; however, it was different experience. It is based off of a German play by the same name.
The play tells the story of a group of teens that are going through that adolescence in Victorian Europe. Their parents, teachers, neighbors–basically all adults–refuse to tell the children anything about sex or love; even though the teens want to know–which is very typical of the Victorian Age. We explore each of the children’s lives and their naive sense of what love is. Melchior, the “lead”, is the rebel who knows more than all of the other teens and they look up to him for his knowledge of the subject of sex.
Now even though the teens are not told what love or sex is, they are drawn to each other, and for some of them it works and for others it ends badly. The teens really are victims of Love as they cannot control who they love or really understand why, they are just drawn to it. And even though they do not what they are doing–though they know when it is not love, as two of the girls are sexually abused–they know they must do it.
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