How Mr. Jones Came To Broadway

Making a musical about teen sexuality is no easy task, so it’s no surprise that the producers of the Broadway smash, Spring Awakening, decided that much of the inherent sexual tension in their story would need to be told through movement. What was a bit of a surprise was that the show scored the services of Bill T. Jones as choreographer. “In some ways it’s a perfect fit for a choreographer concerned with storytelling, the power of gesture and sexual identity. Yet working on a mainstream musical was not an obvious move for Mr. Jones, who has always seen himself as fiercely experimental.”