Spring Awakening

• Book & Lyrics by Steven Sater
• Music by Duncan Sheik
• Based on the play by Frank Wedekind
• Directed by Victoria Bussert
• With Baldwin-Wallace College Music Theatre Program

Winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of the controversial 19^th century German play that explores with poignancy and passion the turbulent journey from adolescence to adulthood. Follow this group of teenagers on their passage as they navigate self-discovery and coming-of-age anxiety in a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion. This landmark musical is an exhilarating mix of morality, sexuality, and rock & roll. Mature content.

Beck Teen Theater presents Reckless

Beck Teen Theater presents Reckless by Tony-nominated playwright, Craig Lucas in the Studio Theater, February 24 through March 4, 2012. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sundays. There is a special 10 a.m. student matinee Thursday, March 1.

Reckless is a dark, but very funny comedy about a modern-day Alice who encounters bizarre characters on her surreal, loop-de-loop adventures through a contemporary Wonderland. Directed by Jonathan Kronenberger, Beck Center’s associate director of theater education, Reckless features a talented cast of 16 teenage actors who are students at the Beck Center. 

At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilt-ridden husband that he has hired a hit man to kill her. Distraught, she flees for her life by scrambling out the bedroom window and into the snowy night. Rachel’s journey takes her from town to town where she meets a variety of crazy, colorful characters and encounters an endless series of incredible coincidences. In the end, she realizes that we lead reckless lives in which “things just happen,” but her optimistic outlook allows her to keep making the best of it.

Tickets are $12 for Adult/Senior (65 and over) and $10 for Children/Student (18 and under).