Chandelier Productions' SPRING AWAKENING Begins Tonight

Chandelier Productions teams up with Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS), tonight, August 21st-29th at Broadway Performance Hall on Capitol Hill to deliver a two-weekend run of the Tony Award winning rock musical, Spring Awakening. Unflinching in its candor, see Chandelier Productions raw take on this groundbreaking musical before it makes it triumphant return to Broadway in the Fall. Backed by a live rock n' roll band, these are the kids your grandparents warned you about.

Spring Awakening transports the audience back in time to buttoned-up provincial Germany in the 1890s. Based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 expressionist play and featuring an electrifying score, Spring Awakening follows the lives of a group of teens as they navigate their journey from adolescence to adulthood in a fusion of morality, sexuality, and rock & roll. Winner of 8 Tony Awards - including Best Musical, Spring Awakening is "beautiful, messy, exhilarating, awkward, and vital" (USA Today). "This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill and quite a bit of the terror to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls sometime around the age of 13" (The New York Times).

In October 2012, Chandelier Productions raised $8,000 for Gay City Health Project with a sell-out run of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show and John Cameron Mitchell and Steven Trask's Hedwig & the Angry Inch presented as a live double feature. This year Chandelier Productions hopes to top their previous efforts in support of PSKS.

About Chandelier Productions: Chandelier Productions is a non-profit group of musicians, actors and event producers focused on raising money and awareness for local and national LGBTQ organizations and LGBTQ allies including Gay City Health Project, Freedom to Marry, the Human Rights Campaign, the It Gets Better Project, the Trevor Project and GLSEN. Other achievements include: The Rocky Horror Show at the Showbox (2013), a reoccurring Mother's Day tribute to the legendary Roy Orbison at the Triple Door (2013/2015), The Rocky Horror Show/Hedwig & the Angry Inch Live Double Feature (2012), and Hedwig and the Angry Inch at The Crocodile (2011). In partnership with Rudy's Barbershop, Cupcake Royale and The Stranger, the 2011 production of Hedwig raised over $10,000 in benefit of Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project. Seattle Gay Scene touted Chandelier Productions' Hedwig as "pure rock n' roll ... a concert of Iggy Pop & David Bowie combined. Fans would die to see this show more than once, but only until next [time] will we see a show of this caliber."

Tickets available at www.chandelierproductions.org ($20-28 adv. - stage seating available). For additional information, updates, and other promotional materials visit www.chandelierproductions.org or www.facebook.com/chandelierproductions.

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