Spring Awakening

New York Times: "If you follow the fortunes of Broadway, you know that the revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s “Company,” mounted late last year, has been a highlight of this theater season, and that “Spring Awakening,” a transformation of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play about adolescent longing, has been another. You’ve heard too, perhaps, that both have drawn audiences from beyond the ranks of the typical musical-theater fan, from those cultural consumers in late youth or early middle age who disdain much of what does not originate on HBO or the walls of a gallery in Chelsea or Berlin. You are acquainted with such people; quite possibly you are one of them. And if you are, you assume that your intellectual demands exceed what the musical — benighted, reductive and emotionally anodyne — could ever supply."