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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Chapters: Spring Awakening, Title of show, The Drowsy Chaperone, Curtains, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Bad Girls: The Musical, The Wedding Singer, Puteri Gunung Ledang, The Lord of the Rings, Grey Gardens, Lestat, Rebecca, Tarzan, Ace, I Love You Because, Carmen Cubana, Daddy Cool, The Onion Cellar, Hot Feet, High Fidelity, Go-Go Beach, Marie Antoinette, Netru, Indru, Naalai, The Times They Are A-Changin', The Boys Are Coming Home, Dracula - Entre l'amour et la mort, Imagine Tap, Love, Janis, Letters from Lehrer, Ring of Fire. Excerpt: Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1892 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. It features music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. The original play was banned in Germany for a while due to its portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. In the musical, alternative rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score. Spring Awakening received eleven 2007 Tony Award nominations, winning eight, including Tonys for best musical, direction, book, score and featured actor. The show also won four Drama Desk Awards, while its London production won four Olivier Awards. Act IWendla Bergmann, an adolescent in late-nineteenth century Germany, laments that her mother gave her "no way to handle things" and has not taught her the lessons she needs to learn ("Mama Who Bore Me"). She tells her mother that it is time she learned where babies come from, considering that she is about to be an aunt for the second time. Her mother cannot bring herself to explain the facts about conception clearly to Wendla despite knowing her daughter is reaching puberty. Instead, she simply tells Wendla that to conceive a child a woman must love her husband with all of her heart. The other young girls in town appear to be similarly innocent and are upset about the lack of knowledge presented to them ("Mama Who Bore Me" (Reprise)). At school, some teenage boys are studying Virgil in Latin class. When Moritz Stiefel, a very nervous and intense young man, sleepily misquotes a line, the teacher chastises him harshly. Moritz's classmate, the rebellious and highly intelligent Melchior Gabor, tries to defend him, but the teacher will have none of it, and hits Melchior with a stick. Melchior reflects on the shallow narrow-mindedness of school and society and expresses his intent to change things ("All Tha

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