Saturday, February 4, 2012
"Spring Awakening" is a beautifully raw, brutally honest depiction of internal teenage struggles.
Teenagers are awkward. Especially when they’re sexually repressed, late 19th century German teenagers. In its opening night at the Beck Center for the Arts Friday, “Spring Awakening,” behind an entrancing cast, captured the exact essence of how awkward and frustrating teen-dom can be with just the right amount of sexual tension – truck loads of it. With song titles including My Junk, Touch Me and The Word of Your Body, the Beck Center’s co-production with Baldwin-Wallace College’s Music Theater program proved exactly why the New York Times said this play would “change Broadway forever.” The cast danced around subject matters as weighty as suicide, depression, child abuse and homosexuality in a down-to-earth manner that seemed more …
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The center partnered with Baldwin-Wallace College to produce "Spring Awakening" this Friday.
Rarely does a Broadway musical come along that has critics in The New York Times describing it as “…pure sex…Broadway will never be the same again.” “Spring Awakening” did just that in 2006, and it’s coming to the Beck Center for the Arts Friday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. The play, which won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, explores the painful transition from adolescence to adulthood, and tackles dark subject matter like suicide, said Beck Center spokeswoman Kathleen Caffrey. “It tackles a lot of issues some people may not be comfortable with,” she said. “You don’t really expect a musical to take on these kinds of issues.” The Beck Center teamed up with Victoria Bussert, head of Baldwin-Wallace College’s nationally-renowned musical …
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
"The Marvelous Wonderettes", "Race" and "Spring Awakening" are just a few of the plays and musicals that will capture the minds and imaginations of Beck's theater-goers.
A night at the prom with a quartet of 1950s dreamers. The story of an old woman who just wants to spend her last days in her own home. The improbable combination of the life story of our seventh President with two hours of punk music. What in the world do these three stories have in common? They are all part of the 2011-12 professional season at the Beck Center for the Arts. “Six of our seven productions are either brand new to local audiences or have only been seen in national tours,” artistic director Scott Spence said in a news release. “As always, we are trying to offer great diversity in both titles and content.” The season includes four regional premieres, including The Marvelous Wonderettes by Roger Bean, Race by David Mamet, and…
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Peter Grossetti
1:42 pm on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The word "controversial" is a lame, overused word (imo). more ›