Spring Awakening

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  • The Cast
  • (program order)

Wendla Bergmann (Zoie Lanning)

Melchior Gabor (Devanté Brown)

Moritz Steifel (Ethan Cooper)

Hänschen Rilow / Dieter (Jacob Mullins)

Ernst Röbel / Ulbrecht (Brittan Posey)

Martha Bessell (Allyriane Huq)

Georg Zirschnitz / Reinhold (Rhys Carr)

Ilse Neumann (Sydney Lewis)

Otto Lämmermeier / Rupert (Miguel Santiago-Flores)

Thea (Katie Maccabee)

Anna (Tatum Lovsey)

Ensemble Girls (Annie Haseley & Teagan Hughes)

Adult Women [Frau Bergmann, Fanny Gabor, Frau Bessell, Fräulein Großbüstenhalter, Fräulein Knuppeldick] (Rita Preston)

Adult Men [Headmaster Knochenbruch, Herr Sonnenstich, Herr Gabor, Herr Stiefel, Herr Rilow, Herr Neumann, Father Kaulbach, Doctor von Brausepulver, Schmidt] (Joe Balding)
Spring-41
Frau Bergmann agonizes over telling Wendla where babies come from.
Spring-63
“Mother Who Bore Me”:  The schoolgirls lament the lack of information from their mothers.
Spring-127
Moritz confesses to Melchior that he has been having “sticky” dreams.
Spring-180
The boys complain about “The Bitch of Living.”
Spring-280
Herr Rilow knocks at his son Hännschen’s door during a private moment.
Spring-287
Meanwhile, Georg enjoys his piano lesson with Fräulein Großbüstenhalter.
Spring-365
Moritz’s dreams have only been intensified by Melchior’s essay about “Sleeping With”; the ensemble yearns for someone to “Touch Me.”
Spring-464
“Touch Me” starburst.
Spring-498
Wendla and Melchior find they have shared opinions about life and new feelings about each other.
Spring-534
Moritz rejoices that he has passed his midterm exams . . .
Spring-564
. . . but Headmaster Knochenbruch and Fräulein Knuppeldick scheme to fail him in the finals.
Spring-620
Marthe and Ilse reveal they have been abused by their fathers:  “The Dark I Know Well.”
Spring-688
Moritz, who has been failed in his final exams, writes to Melchior’s mother begging for money to allow him to go to America.
Spring-698
She is sympathetic, but cannot help him.
Spring-782
Desperate, Moritz begins to consider suicide.
Spring-855
Melchior makes love to Wendla, as the ensemble sings “I believe all will be forgiven.”
Spring-927
Moritz declares “I Don’t Do Sadness,” and ends his life.
Spring-1004
At Moritz’s funeral, his parents and friends lament all that has been “Left Behind.”
Spring-1053
Confronted with the essay he had given Moritz, Melchior realizes he is “Totally Fucked,” and is sent to a reformatory.
Spring-1228
Ernst reveals that he loves Hännschen.
Spring-1356
Wendla, now pregnant, is taken by her mother to an abortionist.
Spring-1378
Melchior has written Ilse to tell Wendla to meet him at midnight in the graveyard. Reading her grave marker, he discovers that she has died.
Spring-1406
The spirits of Moritz and Wendla assure Melchior that they are “Not Gone”; they will be with him forever.
Spring-1470
The young people call for a more enlightened time, a “Purple Summer.”

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