"Spring Awakening" and all its teen angst is at the Fox Theatre through March 14.

A list of ways I will sort “Spring Awakening” into my memory:

• Musicals I’m unlikely to see performed by high school drama programs.
• Theater experience I don’t want share with anybody I’ve only just met.
• Conversely, theater experiences I don’t want to share with my dad.
• Musicals that address puberty and sex, but not like in, say, “Once Upon a Mattress,” where the young are comically naive, or even in “West Side Story,” where the young and naive are in love.
• Shows that use words I’m not allowed to type in this family-friendly blog in a musical way.
• Shows that include words like “labia majora” in the script.
• Shows that make me wonder, “Wait, which of those 1990s radio hits belonged to Duncan Sheik?”
• Shows where audience members laugh uncomfortably, hoot like high school kids, raise their eyebrows and mutter “Oh, hell no…” when two characters begin to kiss, and then stand on their feet to applaud at the end.

It’s a pretty unique theater experience, one that combines a modern soundtrack with 1890s wardrobe and English language with intensely Germanic names. It’s a teen story through and through. Many adult characters are portrayed by only two adult actors, and we see them, mostly, as kids see them: strict, dominating, abusive, ignorant, rarely sympathetic. We see the light and dark teen stories — puberty, flirtation, discovery, love, abuse, suicide, abortion — in full passion. Meanwhile: it’s all catchy.

This is not a show for everybody –  the “mature audiences” warning is deeply serious — but I’m glad to know it won Tony awards for best musical, best book and best score in 2007.

Did you see “Spring Awakening” at the Fox? What did you think of it?

Here’s a video montage from the most raucous number in the show, a song with a title I’m not allowed to type here.  Enjoy!

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Want to go? “Spring Awakening” runs through March 14. $25-$66. Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. N.E. 404-881-2100, www.foxtheatre.org.

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