‘Spring Awakening’ Original Broadway Cast: Where Are They Now?

Spring Awakening catapulted stars Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff and Skylar Astin to fame when it hit Broadway in 2006 — and created an authentic musical that impressed a technology.

“I simply realized that Dan [Radcliffe‘s Merrily We Roll Along] understudy, Coby [Getzug], got here to see Spring Awakening once we had been on Broadway when he was 16. Now we’re on Broadway collectively,” Groff, who made his Broadway debut within the present at age 21, completely advised Us Weekly in June 2024. “I used to be simply speaking to him concerning the documentary. It’s unimaginable. Yeah, theater actually saved me. Wanting again, I didn’t understand it was saving me … I used to be so compartmentalized and so closeted that I didn’t understand on the time what a lifeline attending to sing and dance and emote and cry and be joyful in any respect of that was once I was that age.”

Spring Awakening was impressed by Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play of the identical identify. Practically a century later, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater got here collectively to pen the music, e book and lyrics. The present follows a bunch of nineteenth century German youngsters as they uncover their sexuality. Michele and Groff, who turned BFFs through the Broadway run, performed leads Wendla Bergmann and Melchior Gabor, respectively.

Spring Awakening was finally revived on Broadway in 2015 by Deaf West Theatre Firm, integrating American Signal Language (ASL) into the choreography.

Practically 15 years after Spring Awakening first debuted on the Nice White Method, the unique forged reunited for a particular live performance, which raised cash for the Actor’s Fund. The one-night-only efficiency was filmed for HBO, and Spring Awakening: These You’ve Recognized premiered in Could 2022. The forged carried out on the Tonys one month later.

Scroll under to see what the unique Spring Awakening forged members have been as much as since their Broadway tenure: