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.
Audiences flocking to this 95-minute entertainment, with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, may not think they have signed up for the first session of an undergraduate philosophy seminar. They have come to see Harris, a major American television star owing to How I Met Your Mother, give glam rock a workout. But the evening, even with the longueurs of its storytelling, manages to make us think about not just gender-based aspects of love but also the cold war, cheap American pop music, and the price of fame...A veteran not only of sitcoms but also of gender-bending stage shows such as Rent and Cabaret, Harris is ideally experienced to deliver Hedwig's low jokes as well as its rock 'n' roll kick-outs and tearful ballads.
The main question I had going into 'Hedwig' was how a show built on outsider-appeal and intimacy would play in a colossal Rialto venue, where just weeks ago Mark Rylance led a troupe of actors also cross-dressing ... but in the service Shakespeare. Harris quells any doubts just after his extraordinary entrance, via parachute...With respect due Harris, there's a tentativeness to his performance in the show's hallowed opening number, 'Tear Me Down'--could jumping onto car bumpers in platform heels possibly distract him from singing? But what kinetic energy!...As with any piece that is essentially a straight monologue by a single person, there are places where 'Hedwig' slows down. But 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' is still the finest musical you're going to see this year about a transgendered Berliner with a chip on her shoulder, and it only further burnishes the crown on the head of the reigning king, and now queen of Broadway.
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 |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
Videos