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  The Sandbox Collective will open its 2026 Season with the Tony Award-winning rock musical, SPRING AWAKENING . The musical is set to open in February 2026 at a brand new theater: The Black Box at The Proscenium Theater, Rockwell Center, Makati City.  Winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Duncan Sheik, SPRING AWAKENING is a contemporary rock musical based on the Frank Wedekind play of the same name.   Set in 19th-century Germany, it tells the stories of teenagers exploring their burgeoning sexualities and rapidly-changing bodies. But seeking answers to the mysteries of life proves challenging in the face of uncommunicative parents, rigid institutions, and conservative society. Set to an electrifying alternative rock score by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, Spring Awakening channels its characters' adolescent frustrations and repressions into the angst and power ...

They say if you want to see the future of a country, look at its youth. Among all ages, the youth perfectly mirrors the voices, aspirations, sufferings, and trials of a nation because they theoretically make up the largest portion of a population. They have the strongest body to move and mind to strategize for the advancement of a particular nation. But what happens when the youths are hypnotized by their social and personal sprites? What future awaits them?