Spring Awakening

Duncan Sheik's luminous rock musical Spring Awakening garnered eight Tony Awards, including the prize for Best Musical, Direction, Book, and Score during its debut Broadway run in 2006. Breaking the musical theater mold with a gripping adaptation of German playwright Frank Wedekind's once-controversial 1891 play, the production transformed the original text's repressed teenagers into creative dreamers, schemers, and rebellious rock stars thanks to the soaring melodies and pulsing rhythms of its electrifying indie-rock-infused score.