ACT I
Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)
Girls
All That's Known
Melchior, Boys
The Word of Your Body
Wendla, Melchior
The Dark I Know Well
Martha, Ilse, Girls
The Word of Your Body (Reprise 1)
Georg and Anna
And Then There Were None
Moritz, Frau Gabor, Boys
The Mirror-Blue Night
Melchior, Blue Angel, Boys
ACT II
The Guilty Ones
Melchior, Wendla, Father Kaulbach, Girls, Boys
Left Behind
Melchior, Company
The Word of Your Body (Reprise 2)
Hanschen, Ernst, Boys, Girls
Those You've Known
Moritz, Wendla, Melchior
The Song of Purple Summer
Ilse, Company
THE STORY
It's Germany, 1891. A world where the grown-ups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body, and wonders aloud where babies come from, till Mama tells her to shut it, and put on a proper dress. Elsewhere, the brilliant and fearless young Melchior interrupts a mind-numbing Latin drill to defend his buddy Moritz - a boy so traumatized by adolescene he can't concentrate on anything - not that the teacher cares. He strikes them both and tells them to turn in their lesson.
One afternoon - in a private place in the woods - Melchior and Wendla meet by accident, and soon find within themselves a desire unlike anything they've ever felt. As they fumble their way into one another's arms, Moritz flounders and soon fails out of school. When even his one adult friend, Melchior's mother, ignores his plea for help, he is left so distraught he can't hear the promise of life offered by his outcast friend Ilse. He kills himself. Naturally, the Headmasters waste no time in pinning the "crime" of Moritz's suicide on Melchior and expel him. And soon Mama learns her little Wendla is pregnant. Now the young lovers must struggle against all odds to build a world together for their child.
