Spring Awakening: Un-Common Theatre Company: Foxboro, MA

If you are in or around the Foxboro, MA area this weekend...heck, even if you are not, you should make the effort to head to the Orpheum Theater for Un-Common Theatre Company's production of Spring Awakening. It is going to be a fantastic show! Un-Common's 31 year reputation of producing quality productions helped them garner the rights, before any other amateur theater company in the country to produce Spring Awakening. Thank you very much to producer Chris Lowey for pulling that off! A mature cast of young adults ranging in age from 16-21 have worked diligently over the last weeks with their fearless director, the incomparable Christa Crewdson, to bring integrity, honesty and dimension to what can at times be a very one-note script. Esther Zabinski and her assistant Sarah Grina drilled the musical numbers and as a result the music by Duncan Sheik totally soars. Costumes were designed by Matt Timmons and his incredible seamstress assistant, seamstress Nancy McCarthy. The cast is led by Un-Common newcomers Brendan Duquette, Emily McDonald, and Matt Goldstein. Spring Awakening is well worth your time this weekend...but don't bring your Littles. (unless you are fully prepared to answer this question on the ride home: "Mommy, why was that man on top of her with his pants down!"...yeah, l thought you might think twice)