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Spring Awekening Character Descriptions

Children

Melchior
headstrong, handsome, and charismatic. He knows much more than the others because of what he reads in books and is able to see the corruption in society. He is in love with Wendla.
Moritz
Melchior's intense and nervous best friend. He is in love with Ilse, but never admits this.
Wendla
a childhood friend of the boys. She has a romantic connection to Melchior.
Ilse
another childhood friend who runs away from an abusive home to become a Bohemian. She has mutual feelings for Moritz, but she never gets to admit this.
Martha
one of Wendla's friends who is abused by her father.
Hänschen
a very humorous, almost arrogant classmate. Ernst's love interest.
Georg
another classmate who has a crush on his piano teacher.
Ernst
a naive classmate. Hanschen's love interest.
Otto
another classmate
Thea
one of Wendla's friends.
Anna
another friend of Wendla's.
Additional classmates will be cast.

The Adults

Fanny Gabor
Melchior's mother
Herr Gabor
Melchior's father
Frau Bergmann
Wendla's overprotective mother
Herr Stiefel
Moritz's father
Teachers
several will be cast
Fräulein Grossenbustenhalter
Piano teacher

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