%PDF-1.5 %���� Spring Awakening Music Festival (SAMF) is an annual electronic dance music (EDM) festival held in Chicago. He splits his time between critiquing performing arts and reporting on the city's myriad cultures and phenomena. Electric guitar riffs back songs including “The (expletive) of Living,” which includes a boy singing that another boy “looks so nasty in those khakis” while another sings of “my teacher and her breasts.”. “Part of the disconnect was — when the outside world is so fraught, and we have no trust that it’s going to get better, from both sides of the aisle — it’s really hard to go to the theater and have that be thrown in your face. %%EOF After all, this isn’t the first tough musical he has programmed. Chen once auditioned for "The Bachelorette" and wrote about it. Spring Awakening Music Festival 2019 - NWC EMSS Information . It’s authentic. endstream endobj startxref He has won many awards for his writing on the arts, including First place from the Texas Associated Press Media Editors for Criticism. “Besides ‘Spring Awakening’ being so energetic and inspiring, it’s fun to see that the musical theater form can do more than just be entertaining.”, “Spring Awakening” follows the lives of several teenagers as they struggle against the strict rules and punishments of their teachers and parents. He has spoken on the topic at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, the Asian American Journalists Association National Convention, New York City's BroadwayCon, the Theatre Communications Group National Conference and for American Theatre Magazine's podcast, "Offscript.". 155 0 obj <> endobj “It’s me trusting the community will go with me and the community trusting me that I won’t lead them astray.”, “Spring Awakening,” after all, Knechtges says, “expresses something from teenagers that is sorely missing. It tells the truth. Edgy Tony-winner ‘Spring Awakening’ pushes Theatre Under the Stars in new directions, The cast of "Spring Awakening" presented by Theatre Under the Stars, Theatre Under the Stars presents 'Spring Awakening' in 2019, Conceptual photo for TUTS' "Spring Awakening," 2019, A schoolboy character from "Spring Awakening," TUTS, 2019, Theatre Under the Stars' "Spring Awakening" opens Oct. 8, 2019, Theatre Under the Stars' artistic director Dan Knechtges, John Glenn Ramon offers inspiration to students during COVID-19 pandemic, Alley Theatre delays opening to November, cancels Neuhaus Theatre, Catastrophic Theatre's quarantine web series a surprising delight. Sure, the 2006 musical composed by Duncan Sheik and written by Steven Sater won eight Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and a Grammy Award, and remains one of the most beloved Broadway shows of the 2000s — second, perhaps, only to 2003’s “Wicked.”. �; �20�u�L��@����Hq20]�se �5� h�b```f``�a`e`P�� Ā B@V���A�Uݸ�������� �ݖ@Z�E�"��s��$X1�d�Tc���ͨ�P��� @��A��� �D��ٱ On the other hand, Knechtges notes, the feel-good musical “Mamma Mia” (staged in February) sold incredibly well. 197 0 obj <>stream “We did better than we thought. The production received rave reviews — I said it was perhaps one of the best shows TUTS has produced, and Houston Press awarded it best musical of the year — but attendance was lower than that of other shows, Knechtges says. It’s hard to stomach, but if you stick with it, it really pays off.”. Chen is a 2016 National Critics Institute Fellow at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Knechtges’ plan? 177 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<9E3F9132A4040D4BA2293709C62CE7CA><1A06A6B93E7D9C45996EC70A1CB9E811>]/Index[155 43]/Info 154 0 R/Length 101/Prev 186253/Root 156 0 R/Size 198/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream WHO Expected attendance: Cap placed at 30,000 tickets for any day Crowd demographics 18 & older WHAT Music Festival (3 day Rave Event) with multiple artists and stages WHERE Poplar Creek (Sears Center); Hoffman Estates 0 “It’s an old play that is still relevant and still hyper-charged today,” says Knechtges, referencing the 1906 German play from which the musical takes its stories, characters and dialogue. In 2019 the festival moved to the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the former site of the Poplar Creek Music Theater.

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