The Tony-winning Spring Awakening, based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play, opened Dec. 10, 2006, on Broadway and ran 859 performances at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. It had taken seven years of development, including workshops in San Diego and New York and a 2005 concert at Lincoln Center. The show made its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company with a limited Off-Broadway run in 2006 and transferred to Broadway later that year. The creative team was Steven Sater (book, lyrics), Duncan Sheik (music, orchestrations), Michael Mayer (direction), Bill T. Jones (choreography), AnnMarie Milazzo (vocal arrangements), Kimberly Grigsby (music direction), Susan Hilferty (costumes), Christine Jones (sets), Kevin Adams (lights), and Brian Ronan (sound).
The cast included Skylar Astin (Georg), Lilli Cooper (Martha), Christine Estabrook (Woman), John Gallagher Jr. (Moritz), Gideon Glick (Ernst), Jonathan Groff (Melchior), Brian Charles Johnson (Otto), Lea Michele (Wendla), Lauren Pritchard (Ilse), Stephen Spinella (Man), Phoebe Strole (Anna), Jonathan B. Wright (Hanschen), and Remy Zaken (Thea). Astin, Cooper, and Glick marked their Broadway debuts, as did future Tony nominee Jennifer Damiano in the ensemble.
The Off-Broadway production was nominated for six Lortel Awards and won two, including outstanding musical and lights, while Jones received an Obie for his choreography. The Broadway production was nominated for 10 Tony Awards and won seven, including musical, book (Sater), score (Sater & Sheik), featured actor (Gallagher), choreography (Jones), orchestrations (Sheik), and lights (Adams). The original cast album won a Grammy in 2008, and the show won the Olivier as best new musical for its London premiere in 2009. Below is the Broadway cast at the 2007 Tony Awards.