Happy Talk! discussion

Spring Awakening = English title of the controversial German play Frühlings Erwachen, which was written by the awesome Frank Wedekind and was banned after one night when it was first performed in New York City because it was so, um, edgy and graphic. Sexual awakening of teenagers, defiance of allegedly correct morality and the way German society was so oppressive at the end of the 20th century abound.

Stephen Sater and Duncan Sheik adapted it into a musical in 2007, which is equally brilliant. Discuss the total win of both versions (and JOHNATHAN GROFF *squee*) here.

DUNCAN SHEIK! I KNOW HIM!

... But I'm totally ignorant to the rest of this...

I'm totally unaware of anything else Duncan Sheik has done, but he composed the music for Spring Awakening, so. Yeah. Has he done much else in the theatrical universe, then?

YOU SHOULD LOOK IT UP. Be ignorant no more. You can watch, like, the whole musical on YouTube.

Maybe this is a different Duncan Sheik, because the Duncan Sheik I love is a singer/songwriter. Not in a theatrical sense. Some of his songs are On Her Mind, Half-Life, Barely Breathing.

Is there anything I should be aware of before watching it, content-wise?

I just looked it up, and it seems it's the same Duncan Sheik :D Apparently he's composed for a couple of musicals. But I didn't know he performed his own stuff, so I'll have to look him up.

The Wikipedia page has a good summary of the plot/ensuing questionable content, of which I suppose there's a fair bit. There is a sex scene, but it's pretty tastefully done and neither of the characters are, like, completely naked, and you don't really see anything. (I believe it's called blocking in the theatrical world).
But, yeah. In England the minimum age limit for going to see it in a theatre is fourteen.

ETA: There's also a lot of profanity in the songs The B***h of Living and Totally F****d (Also, possibly And Then There Were None? I can't remember...)