The run closed September 13, 2015
- Opened
- February 14, 1998
- Closed
- September 13, 2015
- Performances
- 857
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Jane Street Theatre (Off-Broadway)
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 25th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2 more that season
| 2014 | Belasco Theatre Revival · Michael Mayer | 507 perf. |
| 2015 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it8 named
8 of these 8 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters2 roles recorded
John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig
Miriam Shor Yitzhak
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Peter Askin
- Choreographer
- Spencer Liff
- Orchestrations
- Stephen Trask
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 6 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
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…
- 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. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 225
- 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. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 705
- 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. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 706
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 644, 659, 665-68, 667, 743 Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 846
- Other recent productions include Hedwig and the Angry Inch, And God Created Great Whales and Betty’s Summer Vacation. The Broadway Design Roster Designers and Their Credits Owen Bobbi Bibliographies, p. 22
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- Which of the 6 recordings of Hedwig and the Angry Inch document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.