Shows · Hedwig and the Angry Inch · Jane Street Theatre (Off-Broadway), 1998
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 1998
Opened February 14, 1998
Closed September 13, 2015
857 performances
Jane Street Theatre (Off-Broadway)
Original
Broadway
Of the productions that opened in the 1990s, this had the 24th longest run.
Other stagings of Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2 more
Who was in it8 named
Creative team
- Director
- Peter Askin
- Choreographer
- Spencer Liff
- Orchestrations
- Stephen Trask
Recordings 5 released while this run was on
1 more exist for other runs of this show: see Hedwig and the Angry Inch for all of them.
Around this production
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and a book by John Cameron Mitchell. The musical follows Hedwig Robinson, the genderqueer East German singer of a fictional rock and roll band. 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. The character of Hedwig was inspired by a German divorced U.S. Army wife who was Mitchell's family babysitter and moonlighted as a sex worker at her trailer park home in Junction City, Kansas. 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…
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