A raw and gripping 'Awakening' Post on 12-12-2006. NEW YORK - If there is anything like justice on Broadway, _Spring Awakening_ - the breathtaking dissection of what it means to grow up - will become both one high mark of the season and one landmark musical. In its exploration of new-found sexuality, when everything is extreme, with never one shade of gray, the show rips through the Eugene O'Neill Theatre with pounding intensity. When _Spring Awakening_, which opened last night, is at its alternative-rock best - aided always by the precision movement of choreographer Bill T. Jones - it sweeps the audience into its beat. When it's at its most poignant, you feel like the only person in the theater. ... To see the new from its original source click here Duncan Sheik's Sexy `Spring' Is Broadway's Future: (Update1) Post on 12-12-2006. Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Shows can be innovative without being good or vice versa. But when ``Spring Awakening,'' one new musical, is both, it is grounds for cheering. It has been compared to ``Rent,'' but in my view, it is more original and, quite simply, better. This ``Spring Awakening'' may well be the first truly 21st-century musical on Broadway. ... To see the new from its original source click here

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