1 The full text in German can be found here courtesy of Spiegel Online.
2 Here is the original set design for Spring Awakening in Germany, 1906. Set design by Karl Walser. This picture is from the Global Performing Arts Database. The picture can be viewed here.
3 Spring Awakeing came to New York in 1917 for the first production of the show in english. The play was threatened with closer when it was claimed to be pornographinc. The picture from this production is at the top of this post.
4 "For some 21st-century Americans, teenage pregnancy may not have precisely the same scandalous — or sorrowful — significance it did just a couple of weeks ago. But in provincial 19th-century Germany, the prospect of an unmarried adolescent giving birth was definitely a family calamity." This is the opening paragraph of a review by Charles Isherwood. It was posted in the New York Times. Here is a link to the whole review.
10 Here is a link to youtube where you can watch a scene from Spring Awakening when they performed on A&E's breakfast with the arts.
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