John Cameron Mitchell stars on Broadway in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, Mitchell and Stephen Trask's landmark American musical, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening). Heartbreaking and wickedly funny, this raucously entertaining show has inspired a generation.
Brilliantly innovative and raucously entertaining, Hedwig has inspired a generation. The show was called "the Best Rock Musical Ever" by Rolling Stone and "the most exciting rock score written for the theatre since, oh, ever," by Time Magazine.
Winner of the 2014 Best Musical Revival Tony Award.
This girl has been through a lot, and Harris, playing her, appears dressed for battle in glittery makeup, fishnet stockings and a gravity-defying blond wig. Over the next 95 minutes, though, Hedwig will slowly cast off her armor, and Harris will throw himself wholeheartedly, and with the full force of his gifts as an actor and showman, into her unsettling but ultimately exhilarating journey...Hedwig's tragicomic essence remains the same, and Harris, under Michael Mayer's razor-sharp direction, serves it with a blazingly entertaining and ultimately moving performance. The humor here is darker and rawer than the material that has endeared Harris to TV audiences, but he brings the same affable, slightly naughty charm -- only laced with the brittleness and jagged desperation you'd expect from someone who has been repeatedly betrayed by those she loves.
Plays based on philosophical symposia don't come louder, lewder or more gorgeously original than Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Inspired by a Socratic dialogue on the nature of love, this concert-style musical, with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, concerns Hedwig, a 'slip of a girly boy' from East Germany who is brought to America as an army bride. Hedwig discovers a talent for songwriting and launches the career of a teen idol, who then rebuffs her. The Angry Inch is her surly Croatian band - as well as her sobriquet for the results of a botched sex-change operation.
1998 | Off-Broadway |
Original Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
2005 | London Fringe |
London Revival London Fringe |
2006 | New York |
Benefit Performance New York |
2007 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway Revival Off-Broadway |
2014 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
US Tour |
Broadway National Tour US Tour |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Neil Patrick Harris |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Michael Mayer |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Neil Patrick Harris |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Lena Hall |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical | Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Neil Patrick Harris |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | Kevin Adams |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Arianne Phillips |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Michael Mayer |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Musical | Kevin Adams |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Neil Patrick Harris |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Lena Hall |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Patrick Catullo |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | The Shubert Organization |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Eric Schnall |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Stacey Mindich |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Martian Entertainment |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Sharon Karmazin |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Ruth Hendel |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Colin Callender |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Paula Marie Black |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Raise the Roof |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Latitude Link |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Barbara Whitman |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Jayne Baron Sherman |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | David Binder |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Julian Crouch |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Musical | Tim O'Heir |
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