From News24.com:

Teenage sex scenes showing a naked breast, masturbation and sadomasochism aren’t the usual Broadway fare, but Spring Awakening has become the surprise hit musical of the season while being hailed as tastefully erotic.

Adapted from German playwright Frank Wedekind’s then-scandalous 1891 play, Spring Awakening looks at the angst of high school students and their sexual awakening in repressed 19th-century Germany.

With song titles such as The Bitch of Living and Touch Me, the show opened on Broadway last month to glowing reviews that compared its contemporary rock song score to that of the prize-winning Rent. Its run was recently extended.

When considering a Broadway musical, “probably nobody thinks: pure sex. That might just change,” said New York Times critic Charles Isherwood, calling the show “a straight shot of eroticism” as it tastefully deals with provocative topics such as abortion, homosexuality and abuse.

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