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Welcome to Season for Dreaming, a fansite and fanlisting for the Tony award-winning musical, Spring Awakening. This musical is a vibrant and poignant story about a brilliant young student Melchior, his troubled friend Moritz, and Wendla, a beautiful teenage girl - all on a voyage of personal discovery and sexual awakening. It has music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater. In 2007, it received eleven Tony Award nominations, winning eight, including Best Musical, Direction, Book, Score and Featured Actor.

Season for Dreaming is currently run by Camilla and Michi since August 2008. If you're a fan of this wonderful musical, then we urge you to join the fanlisting which is listed at The Fanlistings Network under the category Stage/Theatre. It was previously owned by Courtney, who adopted it out to Michi in August 2008.

Feel free to look around the site and if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send us an e-mail at xoxocamichi@gmail.com

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From What'sOnStage.com

The Tony-winning musical Spring Awakening is coming to London. The Duncan Sheik-Steven Sater musical is set to begin performances at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on January 23 and open at the off-West End venue on February 3.

Three newcomers will star in the UK premiere of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Spring Awakening, which runs at west London’s Lyric Hammersmith from 3 to 28 February 2009 (previews from 23 January), care of the original New York creative team (See News, 19 May 2008).

The alt-rock musical, which has music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater, is based on the Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play of the same name about sexual discovery. Set in 19th-century Germany, the story centres on brilliant student Melchior, his troubled friend Moritz and Wendla, a beautiful girl on the verge of womanhood.

Charlotte Wakefield (who plays Wendla), Iwan Rheon (Moritz) and Aneurin Barnard (Melchior) - the latter two recent graduates of LAMDA and the royal Welsh College of Music and Drama respectively – will all make their professional London stage debuts in the production.

Other cast members include: Lucy Barker, Natasha Barnes, Chris Barton, Jamie Blackley, Hayley Gallivan, Natalie Garner, Mona Goodwin, Evelyn Hoskins, Edd Judge, Harry McEntire, Jamie Muscato, Gemma O’Duffy, Jos Slovick, Richard Southgate

From Playbill.com:

Spring Awakening, the expressionistic, groundbreaking musical that won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2007, will end its Broadway run at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Jan. 18, 2009, the producers announced on Oct. 23.

The producers released a statement saying, "When this incredible journey began, who would have imagined, we'd play close to 900 Broadway performances, win eight Tony Awards, and recoup the show's investment in just eight months? Spring Awakening was a glorious challenge from the very start, a challenge that a remarkable creative team took on and transformed into a life-changing experience. And while our Broadway run will come to an end this January, Spring Awakening will continue to touch audiences across the country, through our national tour, and around the world, with productions soon to open in London, Vienna, Toronto, Helsinki and Seoul."

When Spring Awakening closes, it will have played 859 performances and 29 previews.

From Playbill.com:

The North American tour of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Tony-winning rock musical Spring Awakening officially launches at San Francisco's Curran Theatre Sept. 4.

Kyle Riabko and Blake Bashoff, who made their Broadway debuts in the coming-of-age musical as Melchior and Moritz, respectively, reprise their roles for the tour that plays the California venue through Oct. 12. (Prior to its official bow in San Francisco, Spring Awakening premiered its touring counterpart at San Diego's Balboa Theatre Aug. 15-31.)

As on Broadway, Michael Mayer directs; the touring production also reunites the entire creative team from the award-winning New York production.

The young cast of Spring Awakening also features Christy Altomare (Wendla), Steffi D (Ilse), Krystina Alabado (Swing), Julie Benko (Ensemble), Todd Cerveris (Understudy Adult Men), Chase Davidson (Swing), Kate Fuglei (Understudy Adult Women), Gabrielle Garza (Anna), Kimiko Glenn (Thea), Sarah Hunt (Martha), Anthony Lee Medina (Otto), Andy Mientus (Hanschen), Ben Moss (Ernst), Angela Reed (Adult Women), Perry Sherman (Ensemble), Matt Shingledecker (Georg), Claire Sparks (Ensemble), Henry Stram (Adult Men) and Lucas A. Wells (Ensemble).

From Playbill.com:

"Spring Awakening: In the Flesh," the new backstage companion book to the Tony Award-winning musical, is now available in stores nationwide.

David Cote has created the book that traces Spring Awakening's journey from workshops and its Off-Broadway world premiere through its Tony-winning arrival on Broadway. "In the Flesh" includes over 100 photographs, costume and set sketches, original handwritten drafts of the score, behind-the-scenes stories, the complete libretto and portions of Frank Wedekind's original 1891 play.

The 176-page book also features interviews with the creative team and original cast, and offers an in-depth look at the casting process of Spring Awakening, including what each actor performed at his or her audition.

Order yours now from Amazon.com!

Originally set to debut August 18th, Hunter Parrish (best known in his role as Silas in Showtime's Weeds) began his run as Melchior on August 11.

Featured in Vanity Fair’s cover feature "Hollywood’s New Wave: The Hottest Kids in Hollywood" spread, Parrish can be seen the big screen in "17 Again" opposite Zac Efron and Matthew Perry. Other screen roles include "Freedom Writers" with Hilary Swank and Patrick Dempsey, and Barry Sonnefeld’s comedy "RV" playing the son of Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenoweth.

Broadway.com exclusively captured one of Parrish's onstage vocal rehearsals with the current Broadway cast, and can be viewed here.

From Playbill.com:

The North American tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening begins a pre-tour engagement at San Diego's Balboa Theatre Aug. 15.

Performances will continue through Aug. 31 at the California venue. The national tour will then officially kick off Sept. 4 at San Francisco's Curran Theatre (playing through Oct. 12).

Following their Broadway debuts in the Duncan Sheik-Steven Sater musical, Kyle Riabko and Blake Bashoff head the cast of the Spring Awakening tour in the roles of, respectively, Melchior and Moritz. The duo is joined onstage by Christy Altomare as Wendla and Steffi D as Ilse.

The company also features Krystina Alabado (Swing), Julie Benko (Ensemble), Todd Cerveris (Understudy Adult Men), Chase Davidson (Swing), Kate Fuglei (Understudy Adult Women), Gabrielle Garza (Anna), Kimiko Glenn (Thea), Sarah Hunt (Martha), Anthony Lee Medina (Otto), Andy Mientus (Hanschen), Ben Moss (Ernst), Angela Reed (Adult Women), Perry Sherman (Ensemble), Matt Shingledecker (Georg), Claire Sparks (Ensemble), Henry Stram (Adult Men) and Lucas A. Wells (Ensemble).

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