"Spring Awakening"
Book and lyrics by Steven Sater; music by Duncan Sheik; based on the play by Frank Wedekind; directed by Michael Mayer; choreography, Bill T. Jones; music supervisor, Kimberly Grigsby; scenic design, Christine Jones; costume design, Susan Hilferty; lighting design, Kevin Adams; sound design, Brian Ronan; orchestrations, Duncan Sheik; vocal arrangements, AnnMarie Milazzo; string orchestrations, Simon Hale; music coordinator, Michael Keller; fight direction, J. David Brimmer; music director, Jared Stein
Performances: Presented now through May 24 by Lexus Boston Area Dealers Broadway Across America-Boston Series at the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass.
Tickets: Ticketmaster at 800-982-2787, BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com or at the theater box office Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Cast in order of appearance:
Wendla, Christy Altomare; The Adult Women, Angela Reed; Martha, Sarah Hunt; Ilse, Steffi D; Anna, Gabrielle Garza; Thea, Kimiko Glenn; The Adult Men, Henry Stram; Otto, Anthony Lee Medina; Hanschen, Andy Mientus; Ernst, Ben Moss; Georg, Matt Shingledecker; Moritz, Blake Bashoff; Melchior, Kyle Riabko; Ensemble, Julie Benko, Perry Sherman, Claire Sparks, Lucas A. Wells
It's official. I'm old. Despite excellent performances and inspired staging, particularly by innovative choreographer Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening, the Tony Award-winning musical currently playing at Boston's Colonial Theatre through May 24, didn't move me. 
With all its raw pubescent angst and melodramatic sexual posturing, the show still left me emotionally cold. I guess as a person closer to menopause than the onset of menstruation, I simply couldn't relate.
Not that I ever could. My particular teen obsessions fixated on academics and tennis matches, not the laundry list of sexual concerns and aberrations that drive the thin plot derived from Frank Wedekind's groundbreaking 19th century play of the same name. Child sexual abuse, check. Physical abuse, check. Wet dreams, check. Masturbation (lots of it), check. Sado-masochism, check. Nudity, check. Homosexuality, check. Losing one's virginity, check. Teen pregnancy, check. Abortion, check. Suicide, check. The notion that teens are inherently good and adults are inherently bad, check.
