no cheesy pun for a title this time

But diagnosing borderline personality disorder in peoples younger than 18 isn't recommended, so I'll give you young tykes a chance to shine through. Oh wait, if you wanted teenage angst, you'd just play a jrpg, not read a blog. What was I thinking? So instead I'll just do a zetta belated review of a musical that makes Rent look bad (not that that's hard): Spring Awakening!

So, if you read my intro paragraph above and download the song "The Bitch of Living" off of the Spring Awakening soundtrack, you pretty much know what the play's about. Occurring a long time ago but remade for reasons unknown with modern music, Spring Awakening tells the tale of angsty teenagers who hate school and they're all liberals/atheists who like sex, but the headmasters (the villains) hate all the above things, and set out to establish fascist rule in the school.

Now, unless you're an unruly teenager or a parent who doesn't mind the idea of their kid smoking pot and having AIDS, getting pregnant at a young age and then killing themselves (which I am most certainly not), Spring Awakening is going to offend your moral code somewhere along the line. Rent didn't offend me once, but Spring Awakening practically glorifies irresponsibility. But you won't give a digit while actually watching the play cause the writing is factoring awesome! Half the audience was about to jump out of their seats the first time someone held a gun to his head, I kid you not.

Now, I had some issues with the actual production I saw. For once thing, all the adults were played by two actors, one female, the other male. It confused me for the first half of the play. Wait, these characters are related? But why do they have the same parent? Th acting itself seemed somewhat dispirited, especially during the songs. It was like they were all thinking, "Why the factor am I in a play that glorifies irresponsibility? WHY? WHY? WHY??????" But overall, Spring Awakening is worth seeing, especially if you want to think you did the right thing when you got syphilis. But just so you don't have any delusions, you didn't do the right thing, go factor yourself instead of other people.