I'll double your pleasure tonight with two posts since I was remiss in putting one up last night. This spot was originally earmarked for a different musical until I set my itunes the other night and realized just how incredible Spring Awakening's score is. Spring Awakening is a musical based on a turn of the century German play which deals with the subject of teen sexuality, touching on abortion, homosexuality, suicide, and sexual abuse. The musical benefits from a gorgeous, emotionally powerful rock score. Not one of those crap rock scores that you find in other musicals (Chess, Jesus Christ Super Star, even Rent at times)but real gritty compelling music. As it stands I have listened to My Junk 82 times on my itunes (the most of any song), Don't Do Sadness 51 times, the Bitch of Living 46 times, and the Dark I Know Well 35 times, and I had the soundtrack for significantly longer than I've had my ipod. And your fun fact of today is that this is the only work on the list set in Germany so don't hold hope for Cabaret.
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