Photo Coverage: It's Back! SPRING AWAKENING Takes Opening Night Bows

Deaf West Theatre's acclaimed production of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's SPRING AWAKENING, directed by Michael Arden and choreographed by Spencer Liff, opened just last night, September 27, at Broadway's Brooks AtkinsonTheatre (256 West 47th Street). SPRING AWAKENING's strictly limited 18-week-only engagement started previews on September 8. BroadwayWorld was there for the big night and you can check out curtain call coverage below!

The complete cast of SPRING AWAKENING is Robert Ariza, Miles Barbee, Katie Boeck, Alex Boniello, Joshua Castille, Lizzy Cuesta, Daniel N. Durant, Treshelle Edmond, Sandra Mae Frank,Kathryn Gallagher, Sean Grandillo, Elizabeth Greene, Russell Harvard, Amelia Hensley, Van Hughes,Lauren Luiz, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Camryn Manheim, Daniel Marmion, Academy and Golden Globe Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Marlee Matlin, Austin P. McKenzie, Andy Mientus,Patrick Page, Ren, Krysta Rodriguez, Daniel David Stewart, Ali Stroker, Alexandra Winter, and Alex Wyse.

SPRING AWAKENING, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2007, will run 18 weeks only, through Saturday, January 9. It will be performed simultaneously in American Sign Language and spoken and sung in English by a cast of 28. Deaf West Theatre was last represented on Broadway with the triumphant production of Big River in 2003.

Deaf West Theatre's innovative production of SPRING AWAKENING recently completed an extended, critically-acclaimed engagement at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles where the production was expanded from its original, sold-out run at the Rosenthal Theatre in downtown L.A.

SPRING AWAKENING, with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik, is directed by Michael Arden and choreographed by Spencer Liff. The creative team includes Dane Laffrey (scenic and costume design),Ben Stanton (lighting design), Gareth Owen (sound design), Lucy Mackinnon (projection design), and Carol F. Doran(hair and wig design). New York casting by Telsey + Company/Craig Burns, CSA. Original casting by Beth Lipari andBruce Newberg.

Based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 expressionist play of the same name and featuring an electrifying pop/rock score, SPRING AWAKENING follows the lives of a group of adolescents as they navigate their journey from adolescence to adulthood in a fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll. An extraordinary creative team includingMichael Arden and Spencer Liff has reinvented the groundbreaking musical about lost innocence and the struggles of youth in true Deaf West style.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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Marlee Matlin and cast

Andy Mientus

Krysta Rodriguez

Marlee Matlin

Sandra Mae Frank

Krysta Rodriguez

Marlee Matlin and cast

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Krysta Rodriguez

Camryn Manheim

Andy Mientus

Daniel N. Durant

Amelia Hensley, Sandra Mae Frank, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik

Russell Harvard and Camryn Manheim

Marlee Matlin and Steven Sater

Marlee Matlin and Steven Sater

Katie Boeck, Russell Harvard, Camryn Manheim, Krysta Rodriguez, Marlee Matlin, Andy Mientus and cast

Katie Boeck, Russell Harvard, Camryn Manheim, Spencer Liff, Krysta Rodriguez, and Marlee Matlin

Katie Boeck, Russell Harvard, Camryn Manheim, Spencer Liff, Krysta Rodriguez, Marlee Matlin and Duncan Sheik
Krysta Rodriguez, Marlee Matlin and Duncan Sheik

Camryn Manheim, Krysta Rodriguez, Marlee Matlin, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik

Marlee Matlin and Michael Arden

Michael Arden

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