Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4075 in Music
• Brand: Baker & Taylor
• Released on: 2006-12-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Cast Recording
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Amazon.com
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.

Amazon.com
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

New York Observer
"Once in a generation a new musical comes along that changes everything."

"Best of all is Sheik's melodic and impressive pop/rock score. This music will continue to be heard years from now."

(June 11, 2007- New York, NY) Spring Awakening, the controversial rock musical about 19th century German teens coming to terms with their emerging sexuality, dominated the 61st Annual Tony Awards held June 10th at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York City with eight wins, including the top honor of Best Musical. Additional categories the show swept included Best Score (composer Duncan Sheik and lyricist Steven Sater), Best Book of a Musical (Sater), Best Direction of a Musical (Michael Mayer), Best Performance by a Featured Actor (John Gallager Jr.), Best Lighting Design (Kevin Adams), Best Choreography (Bill T. Jones) and Best Orchestration (Sheik).

Spring Awakening's Tony success story comes on the heels of an exciting award season for the show. The musical garnered three Outer Critics Circle Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and a Drama League Award, all including top honors for a musical. With music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Steven Sater, Spring Awakening is a beautiful, striking and thought-provoking listen in the theatre and on disc. The Decca Broadway Cast Recording debuted at #3 on the Billboard Broadway Album Chart earlier this year and has been holding steady ever since. Critics across the board agree the show and its music take musical theatre to new frontiers of excellence. Elysa Gardner of USA Today noted the score "veers from haunting ballads to exuberant post-punk tirades," New York Magazine enthused; "Spring Awakening explodes in a burst of power pop," and Entertainment Weekly gave the album an "A" review, noting it is the "most gorgeous (and occasionally rocking-out) ...score of this decade."