ARTIST: Spring Awakening
TITLE: Original Broadway Cast Recording
LABEL: Decca Broadway/Universal Records
GENRE: Soundtrack
BITRATE: 190kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 01m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-12-12
RIP DATE: 2007-02-09
Track List
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1. The Spring Awakening Cast - 2:20
Mama Who Bore Me
2. The Spring Awakening Cast - 1:15
Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)
3. The Spring Awakening Cast - All 2:01
That's Known
4. The Spring Awakening Cast - The 2:53
Bitch Of Living
5. The Spring Awakening Cast - My 2:25
Junk
6. The Spring Awakening Cast - 4:31
Touch Me
7. The Spring Awakening Cast - The 2:58
Word Of Your Body
8. The Spring Awakening Cast - The 3:06
Dark I Know Well
9. The Spring Awakening Cast - And 4:16
Then There Were None
10. The Spring Awakening Cast - The 2:23
Mirror-Blue Night
11. The Spring Awakening Cast - I 2:33
Believe
12. The Spring Awakening Cast - 5:05
Don't Do Sadness,Blue Wind
13. The Spring Awakening Cast - The 3:31
Guilty Ones
14. The Spring Awakening Cast - 4:19
Left Behind
15. The Spring Awakening Cast - 3:18
Totally Fucked
16. The Spring Awakening Cast - The 3:10
Word Of Your Body (Reprise)
17. The Spring Awakening Cast - 3:36
Whispering
18. The Spring Awakening Cast - 4:30
Those You've Known
19. The Spring Awakening Cast - The 3:28
Song Of Purple Summer
Release Notes:
Who would have thought that Duncan Sheik would succeed where Paul Simon and
Randy Newman failed, successfully transitioning from the pop-rock world to the
Broadway stage? With Spring Awakening, Sheik and book writer/lyricist Steven
Slater (who had already worked on Sheik's 2001 album Phantom Moon) have created
a thoroughly exciting show that incorporates a contemporary art-indie idiom
(including a small rock band instead of an orchestra) into a dramatic
musical-theater context. The unlikely setting is that of a Frank Wedekind
adaptation, but as it turns out, teenage angst is perennial, whether it's in
contemporary America or in a 1891 German boarding school. Songs such as "The
Bitch of Living" ("with nothing going on, asking just what went wrong"), "The
Word of Your Body," "I Don't Do Sadness," and "Totally Fucked" ("You're fucked
if you speak your mind and you know you will") resonate with the rage,
frustration, confusion, excitement, joy, anger, and of course budding lust of
those hormone-driven years. The show is greatly enhanced by its youthful cast
members (they're all pretty close in age to their characters), who sing their
hearts out. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Decca Broadway presents the cast recording for the acclaimed new Broadway
production, SPRING AWAKENING. Written by pop music composer Duncan Sheik and
playwright/lyricist Steven Sater, the musical explores emotional earthquakes in
the lives of teenagers.
SPRING AWAKENING is based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 drama, which
was scandalous in its day for addressing sex violence and suicide. The story,
dialogue and costumes suggest the 19th Century, and are perfectly wedded to a
beautiful alternative pop music score by Grammy® nominated singer/songwriter
Duncan Sheik. The creative team also includes Tony® Award Winning director
Michael Mayer (Thoroughly Modern Millie) and legendary choreographer Bill T.
Jones.