Sit On Stage for Spring Awakening!
Don't just watch the show. Be in it.
Villanova Theatre is putting a limited number of seats right on stage for Spring Awakening. Purchase an onstage seat ticket and take your place in the middle of the action.
On-stage seats are $30 and there are only a handful each night, so they tend to go first. Contact the box office at mullenboxoffice@villanova.edu or call 610-519-7474 and say that you want to sit on the stage!
What to Expect
Arrive a little early. Check in at the table in the Mullen Center lobby 30 minutes before curtain, and an usher will walk you to your seat.
Phones and watches take the night off. The cast performs right beside you, so the stage stays screen-free. That means no cell phones, no smart watches, and no recording of any kind.
Stay put until intermission. Once the lights go down, you're part of the scene, so please stay in your seat until intermission. Ushers will guide you on and off the stage from start to finish.
Enjoy the best seats in the house!
Spring Awakening
Directed by Valerie Joyce
Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play by Frank Wedekind
November 5 - November 15, 2026
Wildcard Wednesday: November 4
Speaker's Series: November 8
Drinks with the Dramaturg: November 13
In 19th-century Germany, young people at the edge of adulthood crash headlong into a world that wants to control their desire, curiosity, and hunger to be understood. The Tony Award-winning musical transforms Frank Wedekind's 1891 play Spring’s Awakening into a visceral rock score that gives voice to every curiosity, confusion, and excitement about adolescent sexuality. Thrilling, heartbreaking, and achingly relevant, Spring Awakening rails against repression and renders the costs of living within the limits imposed by family, society, and tradition.
*This production includes strong language, portrayals of physical and emotional violence, domestic abuse, suicide (with a realistic prop gun visible on stage), abortion, and discussions and staging of sexual encounters - both consensual and non-consensual.
Orchestrations: Duncan Sheik
Vocal Arrangements: AnnMarie Milazzo
String Orchestrations: Simon Hale
Dramaturg: Molly Caballero
Stage Manager: Abigale Townsend
Music Director and Artistic Director: Peter Hilliard
Choreographer: Rebecca Malcolm Naib
Scenic Designer: Colin McIlvaine
Lighting Designer: Jerry Forsyth
Costume Designer: Janus Stefanowicz
Sound Designer: Damien Figueras
Props Technician: Gabby Goldman
Intimacy Choreographer: Hannah Levine
Fight Choreographer: John Bellomo
Production Manager: Bridget Sullivan
Technical Director: Jake Rothermel
Assistant Technical Director: Michael Moran
Costume Shop Manager: Rosemarie McKelvey
Scenic Charge: Claire Leitner
Gianna Lauria as Wendla Bergmann, Lindsay Wheeler as Ilse Neumann, Morgan Bolesta as Martha Bessell, Bridget Castano as Thea, Samantha Whitehair as Anna, Tala Saker as Mariana, Kirsten Weirich as Greta and Fraulein Grossebustenhalter, Emily Griffith as Frau Bergman and Girl's ensemble, MacKenna Healy, Ava Maloco, Annalee Nelson, and Jenna Reisinger as Girls' ensemble, Nick Leyesa as Melchior Gabor, David Walker as Moritz Stiefel, Benjamin Sherlock as Hanschen Rilow, Michael Rose as Ernst Robel, Peirce Robinson as George Zirchnitz, Matthew Geiger as Otto Lammermeier, Miles Noecker as Bobby Maler, Emmett Greer and Giuseppe Modaffe as Boys' ensemble, Craig Storrod as Herr Sonnenstich, Herr Rilow, Herr Stiefel, Herr Neumann, and Schmidt, Nick Madden as Herr Knochenbruch, Herr Gabor, Fr Kaulbach, and Dr. von Brausepulver, and Deb Schrager as Fraulein Knuppeldick, Fanny Gabor, and Frau Bessell