Spring Awakening [Original Cast Recording]

by Duncan Sheik

Overview

“This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls.”—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

“The staggering purity of this show will touch all open hearts…In its refined, imaginative simplicity, it daringly reverses all the conventional rules by returning the American musical to an original state of innocence.”—John Heilpern, The New York Observer

“An unexpected jolt of sudden genius, edgy in its brutally honest, unromanticized depiction of human sexuality.”—New York Post

Spring Awakening is an extraordinary new rock musical with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Duncan Sheik. Inspired by Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society’s efforts to control it, the piece seamlessly merges past and present, underscoring the timelessness of adolescent angst and the universality of human passion.

Steven Sater’s plays include the long-running Carbondale Dreams, Perfect for You, Doll (Rosenthal Prize/Cincinnati Playhouse), Umbrage (Steppenwolf New Play Prize), and a reconceived version of Shakespeare’s Tempest, which played in London.

Duncan Sheik is a singer/songwriter who also collaborated with Sater on the musical The Nightingale. He has composed original music for The Gold Rooms of Nero and for The Public Theater’s Twelfth Night in Central Park.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/12/2006
Label:	Decca
UPC:	0602517131491

Tracks

1. Spring Awakening, musical~Mama Who Bore Me
2. Spring Awakening, musical~Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)
3. Spring Awakening, musical~All That's Known
4. Spring Awakening, musical~The B**** Of Living
5. Spring Awakening, musical~My Junk
6. Spring Awakening, musical~Touch Me
7. Spring Awakening, musical~The Word Of Your Body
8. Spring Awakening, musical~The Dark I Know Well
9. Spring Awakening, musical~And Then There Were None
10. Spring Awakening, musical~The Mirror-Blue Night
11. Spring Awakening, musical~I Believe
12. Spring Awakening, musical~Don't Do Sadness / Blue Wind
13. Spring Awakening, musical~The Guilty Ones
14. Spring Awakening, musical~Left Behind
15. Spring Awakening, musical~Totally F*****
16. Spring Awakening, musical~The Word Of Your Body (Reprise)
17. Spring Awakening, musical~Whispering
18. Spring Awakening, musical~Those You've Known
19. Spring Awakening, musical~The Song Of Purple Summer

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Duncan Sheik   Primary Artist,Guitar
Remy Zaken   Primary Artist
Brian Johnson   Primary Artist
Jonathan Groff   Primary Artist
Phoebe Strole   Primary Artist
Skylar Astin   Primary Artist
John Gallagher, Jr.   Primary Artist,Vocals
Jonathan B. Wright   Primary Artist,Vocals
Lilli Cooper   Primary Artist
Lauren Pritchard   Primary Artist,Vocals
Lea Michele   Primary Artist,Vocals
Gideon Glick   Primary Artist,Vocals
Kimberly Grigsby   Harmonium,Keyboards,Music Direction,Musical Director
Danielle Farina   Viola
Hiroko Taguchi   Viola
Olivier Manchon   Violin
Thad DeBrock   Guitar
Trey Files   Drums
Ben Kalb   Cello
Simone Hale   Harmonium
Tom Deckman   Vocals
George Farmer   Bass

Technical Credits

Duncan Sheik   Composer,Audio Production,Producer,Programming,Orchestration
Steve Sater   Lyricist,Book,Liner Notes
Simon Hale   Arranger,Orchestration
Greg Calbi   Mastering
Rafael Hernandez   Package Coordinator
Brian Drutman   A&R
Phoebe Strole   Cast
Skylar Astin   Cast
Monique Carboni   Photography
Jeremy Cowart   Photography
Rafaela Hernandez   Package Coordinator
Jonathan B. Wright   Cast
Mark Johnson   Copyist,Copyist,Music Copyist
AnnMarie Milazzo   Vocal Arrangement
Steven Sater   Composer
Jennifer Damiano   Cast
David Novik   A&R
Frank Famularo   Package Design
Lauren Pritchard   Cast
Leif Covington   Package Coordinator
Michael Keller   Music Coordinator
Lea Michele   Cast
Michael Tudor   Mixing,Engineer
Richard Hammond   Copyist
Chris Roberts   Executive Producer
Joan Marcus   Photography
Pat Barry   Creative Director
Krysta Rodriguez   Cast
Jonathan Groff   Cast
Tom Deckman   Cast
Doug Hamilton   Photography
Audie England   Photography