Merrick here...

McG is angling to bring the Tony winning rock musical SPRING AWAKENING to the big screen (track samples HERE, or see the embed below).

McG may opt not to go the studio route in order to make a more intimate, or indeed an edgier, movie version.

Set in 19th-century Germany, the coming-of-age story follows a group of teens discovering their sexuality and dealing with high-wire topics like masturbation, abortion, rape and suicide.

...says THIS PIECE in Hollywood Reporter.

AWAKENING has quite an interesting (and extensive) history, beginning its life as a German play back in the 1890s. SOmetimes banned because of its subject matter, it was subsequently produced in 1955, 1978, and its most recent iteration (in 2006). More details can be found via THIS Wiki entry.