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Byline: Adam Green
The perennial themes of rock 'n' roll-those would be heartbreak, angst, lust, rage, and rebellion-have featured prominently in the lives of adolescents since time began. Throw in a little masturbation and S&M, and you've got Frank Wedekind's 1891 play Spring Awakening, about the tragic effects of repression on fin de siecle Austrian youth. Now the librettist Steven Sater and the singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik have turned this darkly lyrical story into a rock opera, a cross between Rebel Without a Cause and Krafft-Ebing's ...