Christine Estabrook Completes Spring Awakening Cast

Christine Estabrook will play all the adult female roles in the Broadway production of the musical Spring Awakening. The show will open at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on December 10, with previews slated to begin on November 16. Estabrook replaces Mary McCann, who played these roles in the show’s Off-Broadway production at the Atlantic Theater earlier this year.

Based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play about teenagers coming of age in Germany, Spring Awakening has music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater. As at the Atlantic, the show will be directed by Michael Mayer and will feature choreography by Bill T. Jones, sets by Christine Jones, costumes by Susan Hilferty, and lighting by Kevin Adams.

The entire youth ensemble of the Atlantic production is on board for the Broadway run, including Jonathan Groff as Melchior, Lea Michele as Wendla, and John Gallagher, Jr. as Mortiz. The cast also includes Skylar Astin (Georg), Lilli Cooper (Martha), Gideon Glick (Ernst), Brian Johnson (Otto), Lauren Pritchard (Ilse), Phoebe Strole (Anna), Jonathan B. Wright (Hanschen), and Remy Zaken (Thea). Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella will play all the adult male roles.

Estabrook has previously starred on Broadway in The Sisters Rosensweig, The Inspector General, I’m Not Rappaport, and The Cherry Orchard. She received a Drama Desk Award for her performance in The Boys Next Door and Drama Desk nominations for her work in North Shore Fish and Win/Lose/Draw. She is best known to television viewers for her role of Martha Huber on Desperate Housewives.