Like Rent before it, Spring Awakening seems to have a made a very special connection with the 18- to 25-year-old demographic. Contemporary music is certainly one thing in common, and yet Rent used an old classic opera story but updated it to a contemporary time with circumstances that were more current. With their musical Spring Awakening, Duncan Shiek (music) and Steven Sater (book and lyrics) have kept the 1891 Frank Wedekind play in the same time-period, although microphones are used as a contemporary anachronism. Analyze and discuss why this "period"
story and musical has made such a deep connection to a very young contemporary audience without making the story a contemporary one.

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Like Rent before it, Spring Awakening seems to have a made a very special connection with the 18- to 25-year-old demographic. Contemporary music is certainly one thing in common, and yet Rent used an old classic opera story but updated it to a contemporary time with circumstances that were more current. With their musical Spring Awakening, Duncan Shiek (music) and Steven Sater (book and lyrics) have kept the 1891 Frank Wedekind play in the same time-period, although microphones are used as a contemporary anachronism. Analyze and discuss why this "period"
story and musical has made such a deep connection to a very young contemporary audience without making the story a contemporary one.

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The Answer of Like Rent before it, Spring Awakening seems to have a made a very special connection with the 18- to 25-year-old demographic. Contemporary music is certainly one thing in common, and yet Rent used an old classic opera story but updated it to a contemporary time with circumstances that were more current. With their musical Spring Awakening, Duncan Shiek (music) and Steven Sater (book and lyrics) have kept the 1891 Frank Wedekind play in the same time-period, although microphones are used as a contemporary anachronism. Analyze and discuss why this "period"
story and musical has made such a deep connection to a very young contemporary audience without making the story a contemporary one.

Like Rent Before It, Spring Awakening Seems to Have a Made