‘Spring Awakening’ Off-Broadway Choreographer on the Revival

“I have gotten some random emails from people saying, ‘Don’t f–k it up,’ ” Celia Rowlson-Hall says with a laugh. The choreographer has worked across fashion, film (The Testament of Ann Lee, The Drama) and music videos (David Byrne, Alicia Keys) — but her latest project is especially high stakes: the off-Broadway production of the groundbreaking musical Spring Awakening (in previews Nov. 27 for a Dec. 17 opening).

Based on a late-19th-century play about German teens confronting sex, academic pressure, abuse and suicide, Spring Awakening’s Tony Award-winning folk-rock score (co-written by Steven Sater and…