Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Shows · Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig Schmidt, a genderqueer East German rock singer, tells her life story through a series of concerts in rundown venues. Born Hansel, she underwent a botched sex-change operation to marry an American G.I. and escape East Berlin, leaving her with the titular 'angry inch.' Abandoned in a Kansas trailer park, Hedwig formed a rock band and mentored a young man named Tommy Gnosis, who stole her songs and became a super…
- Opened
- 1998
- Performances
- 857
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions3 on Broadway
| 1998 | Jane Street Theatre (Off-Broadway) Original. February 14, 1998 · Peter Askin | 857 performances |
| 2014 | Belasco Theatre Revival. April 22, 2014 · Michael Mayer | 507 performances · 4 Tony wins |
| 2015 | Transfer Theatre unknown. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 6 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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25 passages naming Hedwig and the Angry Inch, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The latter was the first musical about castration and decades later the Off-Broadway musicals The Knife (1987) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (1998) dealt with the same subject matter. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p225
More unconventional still, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (1998) took the form of a rock club act that told the story of its transsexual star. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p705
an unusual story to say the least for a musical of any kind. To escape from communist East Berlin in 1988, Hansel Schmidt underwent a sex-change operation and married an American GI. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p706
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 644, 659, 665-68, 667, 743 book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p846
Other recent productions include Hedwig and the Angry Inch, And God Created Great Whales and Betty’s Summer Vacation. book:the-broadway-design-roster-designers-and-their-credits-owen-bobbi-bibliographies#p22
Off Broadway’s 1987 musical The Knife and 1998’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch were later additions to this extremely limited genre. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p37
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