Spring Awakening Scene Breakdown

Director: Eric Altheide

Cassandra Weiss
PSM: Cassandra Weiss

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Updated as of: 3/28/2016

SCEN
E
1

PAGES

SONGS:

CHARACTERS

1-4

Mama Who
Bore Me
(Wendla
Mama Who
Bore Me
Reprise
(Wendla &
Girls)

Wendla, Frau
Bergman, Girls,

5-15

All Thats
Known
(Melchior)
The Bitch of
Living
(Moritz &
Boys)

Herr Sonnenstitch,
Otto, Georg,
Hanschen, Ernst,
Moritz, Melchior,
Herr Knockenbruch,
Fraulein
Knuppeldick

16-20

My Junk
(Girls &
Boys)

Wendla, Martha,
Thea, Anna, Georg,
Fraulein
Grossebutenhalter,
Hanschen, Herr
Rilow, Moritz, Otto,

PROPS

Desks,
Virgils
Aeneid
Teachers
Cane,
Things for
boys to
write
with/on
Books for
Boys
Piano,
Correggios
Io,

ACT 1
SETTING

SFX

LIGHTS

COSTUMES

1a. at mirror in
song light
1b. 1891
provincial German
living room
1c. song world

Contemporary
music

1a. songlight
1b. light shift to
1891 Germany
1c. songlight

2a.School/desks
2b. song world
2c.classroom
2d.song world
2e. classroom

Contemporary
electronic
music
Alt-rock guitar
riff

2a.classroom
2b. shimmering
song light
2c. shift back to
classroom
2.d. song light
2e. classroom

Transparent
school girl
dress
(Wendla)
Frau
Bergman: Has
apron
Girls: School
girl dresses
Boys: school
uniforms
Herr
SonnenstichHerr
Knockenbruch

3a. late afternoon

bridge in
countryside
3b. song world
3c. Piano
lessons/georg
3d. Hanschen
bathroom
3e. Piano Lessons
3f. bathroom

Knocking
sound

3a. lights to
rememble late
afternoon
3b. girl group light
3c. light shift-piano
lessons
3d. light shiftbathroom
3e. light shift
3f. light shift back

Girls: school
girl dresses
Hanschen:
Night shirt

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Cassandra Weiss
PSM: Cassandra Weiss

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Journal,
lamp,
cigarette,
tea, books,
essay with
diagrams,
copies of
essay

3g. Piano lessons

3h.
bathroom/song
world
4a. Melchiors
Study
4b. Song world
4c. study
4d. song world

21-27

Touch Me
(Boys &
Girls)

Melchior, Frau
Gabor, Moritz, Ernst

28-31

The Word
of Your
Body
(Wendla,
Melchior)

Wendla, Melchior

5a. Afternoon in
the woods
5b. Song world
5c. woods

32-33

6a. Schoolyard
6b. Headmaster
Ks office

34-39

Otto, Hanschen,
Moritz, Ernst,
Georg, Herr
Knochenbruch,
Fraulein
Knuppeldick
Anna, Thea,
Wendla, Martha,
Frau Bessell, Herr
Neumann, Boys

The Dark I
Know Well
(Martha,
Ilse, Boys)

Prepared by:

7a. windy
afternoon- walking
home
7b. song world of
Martha
7c. Herr
Neumanns house

3g. piano lessons

into song world

A twelvestring guitar
sounds

4a. evening, going

to need practical
for lamp?
4b. radiant song
light
4c. lamplit study
4d. songlight
5a. afternoon/
woods
5b. song light/
world of vibrant
shadow
5c. back to the
woods
6a. schoolyard
6b. light shift to
Headmasters
office

menacing
eighth-note
guitar riff
knocking on
the door

7a. afternoon
7b. song world of
Martha/long
shadow of Frau
Bessell
7c. Ilse song light

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40-44

45-46

10

47-49

11

50-56

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The Word
Of Your
Body
Reprise
(Otto &
Georg)

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Melchior, Moritz,
Herr Knochenbruch,
Fraulein
Knuppeldick,
Wendla, Otto,
Georg

Melchiors
journal,
switch

Moritz, Herr Stiefel,

And Then
There Were
None
(Moritz &
Boys)
The Mirror
Blue Night
(Melchior &
Boys)
I Believe
(Boys &
Girls)

Frau Gabor, Moritz,

Hanschen, Otto,
Georg

Letter
writing
items, gun

Melchior, Boys,
Wendla

Melchiors
journal

SONGS:

CHARACTERS

PROPS

The Guilty
Ones
(Wendla,
Melchior,
Boys and
Girls)

Frau Kaulbach,
Wendla, Melchior,
Girls, Boys

8a. woods
8b.
schoolyard/woods
split

9a. Stiefel Sitting

room
10a. frau gabors
study/ moritz song
world split

11a. Melchior
Song world
11b. hayloft/song
split

ACT 2
SETTING
1a. church/dusk
1b. hayloft-song
world/church split
1c. hayloft/song
world split
1d. church

Minimalist
electronica
motif

8a. lights up in
woods
8b. light shift to
schoolyard
8c. lights split
between
schoolyard and
woods
9a. Lights up on
sitting room
10a. lights shift
back and forth
between frau
gabors study and
moritz song world
11a. haunted song
world cool mirrorblue
11b. warn light of
dusk

SFX

LIGHTS

Music
underscore,
Subtly
sweeping
electronic
keyboards,
Alt-rock choir,

1a. lights come up

at dusk
1b. lights shift to
hayloft/church split
1c. lights fade on
church
1d. hayloft/song
world shift

Moritz wearing
vest with
pocket

Wendla will
need a dress
that buttons
up

COSTUMES

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60-64

Dont Do
Sadness
(Moritz)
Blue Wind
(Ilse)

Moritz, Ilse,

Gun

2a. song worldgarage band

2b. twilight/river
2c. song world
2d. twilight
2e. song world
2f. twilight

65-66

Left Behind
(Melchior,
Boys, &
Girls)

Herr Steifel,
Melchior, Frau
Gabor Boys, Girls

Flowers

3a. Cemetery in
pouring rain
3b. cemetery/song
world split

67-70

Totally

Herr Knochenbruch,

Essay

4a. headmasters

Plaintive
guitar,
gunshot?

Dirty electric

1e. lights reveal

church again
1f. lights go
electric
2a. lights up on
garage band song
world
2b. lights shift to
twilight at a river
2c. spotlight on
Ilse-song world?
2d. light shift back
to twilight
2e. Lights go back
to neon
2f. concert light
fades- back to
twilight in script
ten minutes ago,
you could see the
entire horizon.
Now, only the
dusk- the first few
stars... So dark.
3a.
cemetery/pouring
rain
3b. Melchior
revealed in song
light while
cemetery still lit?
4a. lights for

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Cassandra Weiss
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Fucked
(Melchior,
Full
Company)

Fraulein
Knuppeldick,
Melchior, Full
Company

office
4b. song world
4c. office/song
world split

guitar chord,

Church bellsin distance,

71-73

The Word
of Your
Body
Reprise
(Hanschen,
Ernst, Boys
and Girls)

Hanschen, Ernst,
Boys, Girls

letter from
Melchior

5a. Vineyard at
sunset
5b. song world
5c. vineyard
5d. song world

74-79

Whispering
(Wendla)

Wendla, Frau
Bergman, Doctor
von Brausepulver

Melchiors
Letter, Pill
Bottle

6a. Wendlas
Bedroom
6b. songworld
6c. Melchiors
home
6d. Melchiors
Home/Songworld

headmasters
office
4b. Melchior song
world
4c. light shift back
to headmasters
office- lights
continue to shift
between worlds of
song and scene
4d. lights go
psychedelic
5a. sunset
5b. lights shift to
song worldHanschen in
spotlight
5c. lights switch
back to vineyard
5d. song worldspotlight on
Hanschen/Ernst
6a. lights up on
Wendlas bedroom/
Melchior revealed
in spotlight
6b. Wendla in
spotlight like singer
in concert
6c. lights shift to
Melchiors home
6d. light fades on
Herr/Frau Gabor

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Cassandra Weiss
PSM: Cassandra Weiss

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80-84

Melchior, Dieter,
Rupert, Reinhold,
Frau Bergman,
Schmidt, Wendla,

Letter from
Wendla,
coins,
straight
razor, marks

85

Ilse, Anna, Thea,

Martha,

Letter From
Melchior

86-89

Those
Youve
Known
(Moritz,
Melchior
and
Wendla)

Melchior, Moritz
(GHOST), Wendla
(GHOST)

straight
razor

10

90-91

The Song of
Purple
Summer
(Full
Company)

Full Company

while keeping
Wendla and
Melchior
7a. Reformatory,
darkened corner
7b. lights shift to
private garden
7c. lights shift back
to Reformatory
7d. lights shift to
darkened street

7a. Reformatory
7b. Private
Garden
7c. Reformatorywill need a wall for
Melchior and Boys
to jump over?
7d. darkened
street
8a.Bridge

9a. graveyard at
moonlight
9b. song world

10a. song world

Church Bellsmidnight,
spare piano
chords

8a. lights up on
bridge almost
midnight
9a. lights up on
graveyard at
moonlight- sort of
underworld in mist
9b. Moritz in Song
light
9c. Wendla in song
light
9d. Melchior rises
in moonlight
9e. lights fade to
black
10a. world washed
in song light

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