Spring Awakening
Musical by Steven SaterWikipedia
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Nov 2, 2026
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
Then the Tony Awards come around and Legally Blonde doesn't get nominated for Best Musical, even though it gets nominated for some other things.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
It's the same season as Spring Awakening.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
And I feel like, I don't know, I just I feel like there were a lot of people who were rolling their eyes at the show in the same way that I was rolling my eyes at it.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
And, and what's interesting is that now 20 years later, looking back on it, I think next to Spring Awakening, it is the most important musical of that entire season.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
The cultural footprint is huge.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
I mean, it's coming out right during the Wild West of reality shows.
BVWHOST
I'm going to play it for you at the end of the show, so stick around.
BVWHOST
And into the 2000s and the 2010s and 20s, Duncan was still recording new music, and he was a big part of the Tony and Grammy award-winning musical Spring Awakening.
BVWHOST
this is variety hits show number 62 welcome to it and next up we'll go back to 1983 for lionel richie now lionel's had some recent health issues he's been canceling shows wishing all the best to an 80s legend lionel richie and running with the night so The
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heart of the city streets is beating.
ShannonHOST
But there is this...
ShannonHOST
I would say trio of Spring Awakening, Passing Strange, and Next Normal in the aughts that is trying to take Rent and the musical footprint of Rent and make it more, I would say, cerebral, focused, devastating, make it more kind of lived in.
ShannonHOST
Rent... is many many things i think it always feels a little bit like a fantasy even though it's very real topics um but it's very heightened
ErikHOST
and those three shows have a happy ending where someone doesn't die because they hear a song
ShannonHOST
exactly like you
ErikHOST
know
ShannonHOST
the passing strange next normal and spring awakening are trying to do A very specific thing that you can only have after a rend, right? But that I think has very varying levels of success.
ShannonHOST
Some of them stick the landing, some of them don't.
TanyaGUEST
Duncan Sheik, who was a United States singer, songwriter, composer.
TanyaGUEST
He wrote the score to Spring Awakening.
TanyaGUEST
So maybe people are familiar with that.
TanyaGUEST
But when he came out with his first album in 1996, I listened to that album quite a bit.
TanyaGUEST
And I was just looking up, he has a lot more albums that I have not heard.
TanyaGUEST
He tragically died just a few days ago.
TanyaGUEST
And Spring Awakening too is a amazing musical, just fantastic ahead of his time.
TanyaGUEST
And yeah, so I've been listening to some Duncan Sheik.
Nicholas GalitzineGUEST
that you, yeah.
Nicholas GalitzineGUEST
Spring Awakening.
Nicholas GalitzineGUEST
Spring Awakening, which is, you know, very well known for being a musical.
Nicholas GalitzineGUEST
Absolutely.
Nicholas GalitzineGUEST
Absolutely.
Jack BishopHOST
I think I was.
Jack BishopHOST
And you went Spring Awakening instead.
Jack BishopHOST
Yeah.
Jack BishopHOST
All the classic rock heads out there perked up.
Steffi DiDomenicantonioGUEST
And and people love following celebrity in a way of like, what's that person? And look, I worked in America a couple of times.
Steffi DiDomenicantonioGUEST
I was on the Spring Awakening tour when I was 19 to 21 years old.
Steffi DiDomenicantonioGUEST
And I also went on tour with Come From Away.
Steffi DiDomenicantonioGUEST
And I think what I noticed is that People get, like, interested in who the people on stage are.
29 MINS LATER
Phil RickabyHOST
So what was it like for you having seen that show and had that experience and then being in that show?
Steffi DiDomenicantonioGUEST
Oh, gosh.
Steffi DiDomenicantonioGUEST
In the spring awakening can of worms.
Steffi DiDomenicantonioGUEST
Wow.
Ross BaumGUEST
It
MayaHOST
maybe was Spring Awakening.
MayaHOST
Oh, my gosh.
Ross BaumGUEST
Yeah, that was, like, those were my days.
Ross BaumGUEST
Color purple.
Ross BaumGUEST
I had the best time.
Ross BaumGUEST
Spring Awakening I saw seven times.
Ross BaumGUEST
Yeah, I felt very lucky to grow up close to New York City.
Andrew Barth FeldmanGUEST
So it's a real gift to get to start that.
Daz GaleHOST
And Spring Awakening in particular has meant so much to generations of theatre fans.
Daz GaleHOST
Were you a fan of Duncan and Stephen's work before joining Nero? Oh my gosh, of course.
Daz GaleHOST
I loved
Andrew Barth FeldmanGUEST
Spring Awakening and Alice by Heart.
Andrew Barth FeldmanGUEST
Yeah, it's a kind of, I mean, he kind of invented a new form of musical theatre that everyone, not everyone, but many, many, many writers, aspiring writers and otherwise since, are trying to emulate, trying to recreate, and they can't.
Andrew Barth FeldmanGUEST
It is a singularly unique style.
Andrew Barth FeldmanGUEST
He just is a unique writer, a truly singular writer, and can express something that nobody else can seem to express in the form of musical theater.
Mickey JoHOST
Oh my god, hey! I recently had the chance to visit the rehearsal room of Nero, a brand new musical making its UK premiere from the 2nd of November at Southwark Playhouse Elephant here in London.
Mickey JoHOST
The show from Spring Awakening co-writers Steven Sater and the late, great Duncan Sheik, who tragically passed away earlier this year, tells the story of the Emperor Nero, played by Broadway's Andrew Barth Feldman in his UK stage debut.
Mickey JoHOST
Here is what Andrew and Stephen had to say about the show and the rehearsals so far.
Mickey JoHOST
We are here ahead of another day of rehearsals.
Steven SaterGUEST
You know, the origin of this, this is how far this goes back, was when George W. Bush declared mission accomplished in Iraq, and I called Duncan, Duncan, good guy, Um, and said, you know, Rome is burning.
Steven SaterGUEST
We have to do something.
Steven SaterGUEST
And he said, you mean another piece of musical theater? Cause it just started spring awakening.
Steven SaterGUEST
Um, but that's, that's really where it began.
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