She was loosely inspired by a German female babysitter/prostitute who worked for Mitchell's family when he was a teenager in Junction City, Kansas. As Hedwig performs we learn how his ultimate … Ad Choices, Revisiting Hedwig and the Angry Inch, A Drag Rock Fantasy That Was Ahead of Its Time. Die FSK-Einstufung ist unbekannt. The musical was praised by Rolling Stone as the first rock musical to “truly rock”. It was directed by Katherine Linton and produced by the Sundance Channel and is now available on DVD. The Wicked Little Towns Tour[17] 2005/2006 by Janus Theatre Company played at the following Venues: with Nick D. Garrisson - Hedwig (Garrisson has performed the role of Hedwig also in Chicago, San Francisco and 2002 and 2004 in Seattle. The "internationally ignored" Hedwig and her band the Angry Inch are forced to support themselves by playing coffee bars and dives. She wrote music and dated/mentored Tommy, a confused teen who eventually dumped her, stole her songs, and scored it big as a proto-Marilyn Manson. Also, one nomination for Best Musical in a Brazilian adaptation for the Prêmio Contigo de Teatro.[21]. In the summer of 1994, they started workshopping the show at the downtown NYC gay punk club SqueezeBox!, where Trask led the house band. The 2014 Broadway production received eight 2014 Tony Award nominations: Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Neil Patrick Harris), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Lena Hall), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Julian Crouch), Best Costume Design of a Musical (Arianne Phillips), Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Kevin Adams), Best Sound Design of a Musical (Tim O'Heir) and Best Direction of a Musical. 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The Broadway production had the song prepared to play in case Hedwig had to leave the stage, along with "Freaks", a song from the movie. https://www.ticketmaster.com/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-tickets/artist/836699 However, in order to be married, the couple must consist of a man and a woman. Hedwig’s journey is recast as a flashback-heavy tour of shoddy seafood restaurants, which is really just a guise for stalking Tommy’s stadium tour. some 20 years later, that brief memory of Helga spun out into Hedwig’s winged Farrah Fawcett wig, towering heels, and torn fishnet stockings. [33] Shortly after, the production released a single recorded in quarantine,[34] which was praised by author Stephen Trask as "one of the best Wicked Little Town versions ever. Hedwig befriends the brother of a child she babysits, shy and misunderstood Christian teenager Tommy Speck, who is fascinated by a song she writes with him in mind (" Wicked Little Town Lyrics "). The character of Hedwig was originally a supporting character in the piece. Raised by an emotionally distant single mother after her father, an American soldier, abandoned the family, Hansel takes solace in her love of western rock music. The show is performed without an intermission. RuPaul's Drag Race season 5 winner Jinkx Monsoon also portrayed Hedwig in a Seattle production in 2013. [39][40][41] A new edition of the musical started August 31, 2019, at Tokyo Ex Theater Roppongi, with Neko Oikawa's lyrics, Kenji Urai as the main character, and Avu Barazono as Yitzhak; and with DURAN (Gt), YUTARO (Ba), Kusunose Takuya (Dr), Hideyuki Ohashi (Gt), Akane Otsuka (Key) as members of the band THE ANGRY INCH.[42]. A song performed by Yitzhak and the band, "Random Number Generation" was included on the Off-Broadway Cast Album, but does not appear in the score. [56] Darren Criss took over the role of Hedwig on April 29 and played until July 19, 2015. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film written for the screen and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. They agreed the piece should be developed through band gigs in clubs rather than in a theater setting in order to preserve a rock energy. The Theatre Network production in Edmonton—directed by Bradley Moss and featuring Michael Scholar, Jr. as Hedwig and Rachael Johnston as Yitzhak—opened April 1 and was held over until April 27. The creators of the show Hedwig and the Angry Inch have weighed in to a casting row that led to the producers of an upcoming Australian production pulling the show from January’s Sydney festival. A One-Inch Mound of Flesh: Troubling Queer Identity in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 2016, The music is steeped in the androgynous 1970s glam rock style of David Bowie (who co-produced the Los Angeles production of the show), as well as the work of John Lennon and early punk performers Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. Hedwig and the Angry Inch ist im Genre Komödie angesiedelt. In 2014, the show saw its first Broadway incarnation, opening that April at the Belasco Theatre and winning the year's Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. [1] Die Musik von Musical und Film schrieb Stephen Trask. The original production won a Village Voice Obie Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. "She's more than a woman or a man," he has said. Mitchell was deeply influenced by Squeezebox's roster of drag performers who performed rock covers. Atrocity Tour by Rose Tinted Productions played 2004 at the following Venues: with Hedwig - Matthew Tapscott and Yitzhak - Mel Farmery, The Angry Inch: Skszp - Steve Lockwood (bass and MD), Schlatko - Lee Farmery (drums), Jacek - Tesco (guitar), Krzyzhtof - Stu (guitar), Hlava - Marcus Lane (keyboards),[15] Creative Team: John Lynch - Artistic Director and Producer, Paul Howse - Lighting Design, Special Effects, Jim Craig - Stage Manager, Steve Lockwood - Musical Director, Leanne Edwards - Choreography, Wanda MacRae - Original Make Up and Wig Design, Pete Mathers - Sound Engineer, UK shows produced by Rose Tinted Productions by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd[16], Atrocity Tour also played in Italy in November 3–14, 2004 at Teatro Ariberto, Milan. For the film, see, CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (, Henry, Matthew. He goes on to become a wildly successful rock star with the songs Hedwig wrote alone and with him. With the film’s success, Hedwig’s story effectively cracked the early-2000s straight-man’s world it was born into, finding its audience by imagining a one-of-a-kind individualism. After Harris departed the production, Andrew Rannells took over the role of Hedwig on August 20, 2014,[53] followed by Michael C. Hall, who played Hedwig from October 16, 2014, through January 18, 2015. Actors who have played Hedwig onstage in the U.S. include Michael Cerveris, Neil Patrick Harris, Lena Hall, Darren Criss, Taye Diggs, Andrew Rannells, Michael C. Hall, Ally Sheedy, Euan Morton, Kevin Cahoon, Gene Dante, Anthony Rapp, Matt McGrath, Jeff Skowron, and Nick Garrison, and iOTA. The profits of this album benefitted The Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk High School, a New York City public school for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth who have experienced discrimination and violence in other public schools or at home and are at risk of not completing their secondary education. Hedwig befriends the brother of a child she babysits, shy and misunderstood Christian teenager Tommy Speck, who is fascinated by a song she writes with him in mind ("Wicked Little Town"). Feffer, Steve. Hedwig grows more erratic and unstable as the evening progresses, until she finally breaks down, stripping off her wig, dress, and make-up, forcing Yitzhak to step forward and sing ("Hedwig's Lament"/"Exquisite Corpse"). The musical opened Off-Broadway in 1998, and won the Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. [22], Several productions were shown in Frankfurt/Main in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and Berlin in 2002, 2013 and 2014. Gender Bender: An Oral History of ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ From SqueezeBox! [46] A revival of the production, beginning in December 2012 and continuing through August 2013,[47] featured eight actors nightly in the lead role.[48]. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Jake Mendes as Hedwig. A Jewish drag queen from Zagreb, Yitzhak has an unhealthy, codependent relationship with Hedwig. In May 2019, Hedwig and the Angry Inch makes its New Zealand premiere at Christchurch's The Court Theatre with Adam Rennie taking the lead role. p. 64. Fans of the play and film refer to themselves as "Hedheads". In Vancouver, Hoarse Raven Theatre's production, directed by Michael Fera, opened April 4 featuring Greg Armstrong-Morris as Hedwig and Meghan Gardiner as Yitzhak, and was held over until June 7. A One-Inch Mound of Flesh: Troubling Queer Identity in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 2016, Frustrated by his work as an actor, Mitchell was eager to kick off his playwriting career and found a kindred spirit in Trask. [43], In 2002 and 2003, Zany Hijinx produced the show in Boston, MA with Gene Dante as Hedwig and Lisa Boucher as Yitzhak.[44]. Harris stayed in the production through August 17, 2014. "[83] "She's more than a woman or a man," he has explained. Hedwig and the Angry Inch also provides a space for openly queer performers in this alternative theatre movement and punk subculture that is often labelled as queercore. Future Kings of Spain covered "Angry Inch" for the b-side of their 2003 single, "Hanging Around". [63] It was also used as a way to update the script to modern day as well as explain how Hedwig would be able to use such stage settings. Michael C. Hall Will Join Cast of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH This Fall", "More Hedwig! [74] Instead of a conventional transgender narrative that looks at an individual's account of gender dysphoria, Hedwig and the Angry Inch focuses on the main character's journey of finding love “by looking within.”[75] The musical follows Hedwig Robinson, a genderqueer East German singer of a fictional rock and roll band. Occasionally Hedwig opens a door onstage to listen to Gnosis's concert, which is playing in an adjoining venue. [citation needed]. “And if she can find some kind of solace, maybe we can too, and maybe that involves putting on a wig.”, Stream Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Hulu or HBO, rent on Amazon or Apple, Further viewing: Velvet Goldmine (rent on Amazon or Apple), Party Monster (stream on Amazon Prime), (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.). John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Aronov, Andrea Martin, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski und Rob Campbell mit. Hedwig’s journey to a whole sense of self, realized at the end of the film in an ambiguously Lynchian rebirth, isn’t about living between male and female, or any of her tortured romances. Der Release-Termin der DVD/Bluray ist nicht bekannt. John Cameron Mitchell schrieb den Text des Musicals und war später auch Regisseur und Hauptdarsteller des Films. Hedwig, out of costume, finds acceptance within herself, giving her wig to Yitzhak. Neil Patrick Harris starred in the first Broadway production at the Belasco Theatre, which began previews on March 29, 2014, and officially opened on April 22, 2014. Academics[76] have also recognised the link between Hedwig's search for her ‘other half' and Plato’s ‘Origin of Love’, one of Hedwig's numbers. When the operation fails leaving Hedwig with and angry inch, his GI husband abandons him in Kansas and Hedwig is left to fend for himself by doing a series of side gigs. sugar daddy who offered to whisk him away to America under one condition: a sex change operation. (There’s even a Hedwig indie rock tribute album.) In April 2011, the show was staged in San Miguel de Allende and was presented in both English and Spanish simultaneously. It's not a choice. 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Even though Yitzhak sings backup on almost all numbers in the show, the songs below that are labeled with Hedwig with Yitzhak are ones where he has notable solo lines. The story draws on Mitchell's life as the child of a U.S. Army Major General who once commanded the U.S. sector of occupied West Berlin. This was the first adaptation where there were two actors simultaneously playing Hedwig onstage. ‡ In the original Off-Broadway production, this song was not sung by Yitzhak, but by the musical director Skszp. The play was translated by Jonas Calmon Klabin and directed by Evandro Mesquita, with musical direction by Danilo Timm and Evandro Mesquita. The Signature Theatre in the Washington DC area produced the show in 2002. She describes how she agreed to marry him only after extracting a promise from him to never perform as a woman again, and he bitterly resents her treatment of him. When she meets young Tommy Gnosis (Michael Pitt) the two bond until Tommy steals Hedwigs songs and become a huge rock star leaving Hedwig pathetically playing in the shadows. The movie makes this more of an Epileptic Trees type theory, but it is not impossible., Crowning Music of Awesome: The Origin of Love and Midnight Radio., Ear Worm: "Six inches forward, five inches back, I've got a, I've got an angry inch. In 1990, Mitchell was an aspiring playwright and erstwhile actor en route to New York from Los Angeles when he met musician Stephen Trask, the only other person not watching the in-flight movie. Dar Williams, who is a college friend of composer Stephen Trask, covered "Midnight Radio" on her 2008 album Promised Land. The two quickly bonded over their mutual tastes in film and music. Lena Hall played Yitzhak, Hedwig's husband, until April 2015. Puerto Rico: In the summer of 2010, Hedwig and the Angry Inch played in San Juan, Puerto Rico with Gil René playing the part of Hedwig and the band Simples Mortales doing all the live music. She is aided and hindered by her assistant, back-up singer and husband, Yitzhak. The character of Hedwig was inspired by a German divorced U.S. Army wife who was Mitchell's family babysitter and moonlighted as a prostitute at her trailer park home in Junction City, Kansas. Tonight, we’re the lucky audience members for her concert, and she promises this show will not only be her music but her story. In one of the best, at the women’s festival Menses Fair, the camera pans across a Stonehenge of porta-potties on a misty hill until it finally settles on a slapdash stage where Hedwig is relegated, drowned out by a folk song and playing to a solitary goth girl. Photo by Christine Fisk. Direction was by Peter Askin and musical staging by Jerry Mitchell, with Hedwig initially played by John Cameron Mitchell and Yitzhak played by Miriam Shor. Other notable figures who have portrayed Hedwig include Donovan Leitch, Jr., the glam-rocker son of sixties folk-rock composer Donovan. Meat Loaf covered "Tear Me Down" that same year on his album Couldn't Have Said It Better, modifying some of the lyrics (notably the spoken section about the Berlin Wall) so that the song is instead about Texas and Meat Loaf's own life. April 4, 2008 saw a reprise, with Koji Yamamoto in the lead, again at the Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, spanning even more venues than the previous year. Hall portrayed the title role of Hedwig once a week for eight performances, making her the first actor to play both Hedwig and Yitzhak in the same production. Eline Porto played Yitzhak, Diego Andrade on the drums, Fabrizio Iorio on the keyboards, Melvin Ribeiro on the bass, and Pedro Nogueira playing the guitar. ), The Bens (Ben Folds, Ben Lee and Ben Kweller), They Might Be Giants and Robyn Hitchcock. Hedwig, born male as Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. As Mitchell, director of the film adaptation, acknowledges, through recurring motifs of “the divided self, the divided city of Berlin…divided gender…”[77] the theme of dualism pervades the entire musical. Equal parts wounded tragedy, high-camp drama, and death-defying rock musical, the original Hedwig show blended concepts about gender and sexuality with a razored punk edge. The musical follows Hedwig Robinson, a genderqueer East German singer of a fictional rock and roll band. A performance of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch intended for the upcoming Sydney Festival was postponed due to fierce backlash over the casting of Hugh Sheridan, a … By the time the show opened at the Jane Street Theater in 1998, its lurid backstory was set: Born in East Germany the year the Berlin Wall went up, Hedwig (née Hansel) became obsessed with gender-bending glam and punk gods like David Bowie, Lou Reed, and Iggy Pop via American Armed Forces radio. This same production performed again in Rio de Janeiro from April 4–22, 2012, and a tour to Curitiba, performing April 26–29, 2012, for a total of 16 performances. In 2003, Chris Slusarenko's Off Records released an album called Wig in a Box, a charity tribute album which also included new material adding to the mythology of Hedwig. 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It’s a love story from Hedwig to herself: She takes the bullshit of her past and present and uses it as kindling to create a future unbound by rules or binaries, then offers you the same peace should you need it. A German glam rendition of Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" once served as the musical's finale. (To further the musical's theme of blurred gender lines, Yitzhak is played by a female actress.). Hedwig and the Angry Inch Critics Consensus. [50][51] This production won several Tony awards, including Best Revival of a Musical,[52] Best Lead Actor in a Musical (Harris) and Best Featured Actress in a musical (Hall). All rights reserved. Im Film führt John Cameron Mitchell Regie. (Hedwig’s queerness aside, Mitchell cast actress Miriam Shor as her aggrieved ex-drag queen husband/backup singer, further challenging the audience’s assumptions about gender in theater and rock’n’roll.) Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. Their songs are a success, and Hedwig gives him the stage name "Tommy Gnosis." To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In August 2010, a Brazilian adaptation of Hedwig and the Angry Inch premiered in Rio de Janeiro, with Paulo Vilhena and Pierre Baitelli playing Hedwig. The Turkish premiere was in 2016 in Istanbul featuring Yilmaz Sutcu as Hedwig and Ayse Gunyuz as Yitzhak, with direction by Baris Arman at Kazan Dairesi. [78] The show also attracted many fans in the music world. [54][55] The production then featured co-creator John Cameron Mitchell, who returned to the role from January 21 to April 26, 2015. The director was Michael Mayer with musical staging by Spencer Liff. Though Mitchell had never done drag or sang in a band, he inhabited the pithy German mannerisms and performative bravura instantly, earning high praise from club regulars. Hedwig tells her life story, which began when she was Hansel Schmidt, a "slip of a girlyboy" growing up in East Berlin. Parodying The Hurt Locker Hedwig explains that a musical version of the story only ran for a single night before closing during intermission, and that she has convinced a producer to let her perform in what would otherwise be an empty stage. Director Michael Mayer stated that they came up with the idea for Hurt Locker: The Musical as a way to explain Hedwig's presence in a Broadway theater. [57] Taye Diggs assumed the role on July 22, 2015, and performed through the production's end on September 13, 2015. 5,179 7 Shows Like 'True Beauty' to Watch If You Love the K-Drama This story has been shared 3,323 times. October 13, 2005 to Saturday October 15th, 2005 at Mill Studio, October 23, 2005 at Sussex Arts Club, Brighton, Sussex, October 29, 2005 at South Street Theatre, Reading, Berkshire, January 14, 2006 at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Surrey, October 3, 2002 – November 20, 2002 - Glashaus der Arena Berlin, February 2008 (with Nigel Francis - Hedwig), On September 22, 2017, a new production of, 2005 Peruvian Cast (Hedwig Y la Pulgada Furiosa), This page was last edited on 3 December 2020, at 04:53. Mitchell’s careening vocals go from a Meat Loaf howl to a tender coo; in one of his best performances, on “Wicked Little Town,” he recalls a world-weary ’70s troubadour and cuts to the bone. Nick Sugar’s history with Hedwig and the Angry Inch goes back eight years. and underwent a Gender Reassignment Surgery in order to marry him and flee to the West. There, he met Helga, a German-born Army wife who lived in a trailer park and worked as a prostitute. p. 239-258. 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