Skimming off the cream

Here is the rating no one asked for of 4 production's versions of Spring Awakening from least to most bitching.

Rise NBC TV show

It is just SO low energy. It has the swinging energy of a Jersey Boys song, not the tone you're looking for for a furious lil song about masturbation.

HOWEVER, Ellie Desautels singing "JUST GETTING OUT OF BED" with such exhaustion and exasperation is my favorite line of all 4 versions

2. Original Broadway Cast

It's a classic for a REASON. The ANGST is biting, every word is just chewed on and spit out in this fantastic way. It's got good energy and if the others weren't also so good it would be easily the best version but....

3. Deaf West Spring Awakening (1:56 start time on the video)

WOW! There's no cast recording but you can watch the entire song from the Tony's performance and you can't JUST listen to this production. The choreography alone levels it way up and the energy builds and builds. Daniel Durant is such an expressive performer and the entire cast really brings it

4. Spring Awakening Vienna (So'n verficktes Leben)