The run closed September 13, 2015
- Opened
- April 22, 2014
- Closed
- September 13, 2015
- Performances
- 507
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Belasco Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 49th 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
| 1998 | Jane Street Theatre (Off-Broadway) Original · Peter Askin | 857 perf. |
| 2015 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it6 named
6 of these 6 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
Neil Patrick Harris Hedwig
Lena Hall Yitzhak
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Creative team
- Director
- Michael Mayer
- Choreographer
- Spencer Liff
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.
Tony Awardscategories not held
4 wins from 8 nominations. Which categories is not on this record.
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…
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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.