Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Productions3 on Broadway

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Recordings 6 albums held

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Rose Tinted Productions RTR001

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Atlantic CD 83160. February 9, 1999

Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Origin of Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Hybrid Recordings CTCR-14195. 2001

Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Hybrid Recordings HY-20024; Hybrid Recordings HY-20024-2. July 10, 2001

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Atlantic. June 11, 2014

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Atlantic 54436-2. July 2014

Licensing 1 entry

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In the literature25 passages

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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