VIDEO: GMA Goes Behind-the-Scenes of Broadway's SPRING AWAKENING

By: Dec. 23, 2015
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This morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA went behind-the-scenes of Broadway's Spring Awakening with the help of the show's stars Marlee Matlin, Camryn Manheim and director Michael Arden.

"People just assume that we're doing it for the deaf," said Oscar winner Matlin, "but it's for everybody." Adds Arden, "This is a story about people literally dying to be heard." Watch the video!

Spring Awakening, directed by Michael Arden and choreographed by Spencer Liff, is currently playing on Broadway in a limited engagement through Sunday, January 24 only at the Brooks AtkinsonTheatre (256 West 47th Street).

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.

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.

Spring Awakening is produced by Ken Davenport, Cody Lassen, Hunter Arnold, David J. Kurs, andDeaf West Theatre, with Carl Daikeler, Sandi Moran, Chockstone Pictures, Caiola Productions,Marguerite Hoffman, H. Richard Hopper, LearyTodd Productions, MarKolTop Productions, R&D Theatricals, Brian Cromwell Smith, Invisible Wall Productions, Monica Horan Rosenthal, and Associate Producer Kayla Greenspan.



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