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Jul 13, 2009

An Invigorating Spring Awakening @ Kennedy Center

Blake Bashoff in “Spring Awakening” Spring Awakening is so earnest and so consciously stylized that at some key moments, there’s a temptation to stop taking it seriously and instead succumb to laughter. After all, what we’re watching are late 19th century German schoolchildren discovering their sexuality for the first time, all the while gyrating and head-banging to decidedly contemporary, emo-intense lyrics like “We’ve all got our junk, and my junk is you” or, say,…

 
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