Hedwig and the angry inch Cast

 

John Cameron Mitchell ^ Hedwig
Miriam Shor^ Yitzhak
Michael Pitt ^ Tommy Gnosis
Stephen Trask ^ Skszp
Theodore Liscinski ^ Jacek
Andrea Martin ^ Phyllis Stein
Alberta Watson ^ Hansel/Hedwig's mother
Gene Pyrz ^ Hansel/Hedwig's father
Maurice Dean Wint ^ Sgt. Luther Robinson
Ben Mayer-Goodman ^ Hansel 6-yrs. Old
Rosie O'Donnell ^ Herself

 

 

 

 

 

Hedwig and the angry inch crew

Director ^ John Cameron Mitchell
Writer ^ John Cameron Mitchell
Music & Lyrics ^ Steven Trask
Producers ^ Colin Brunton & Christine Vachon
Executive Producers ^ Michael De Luca, Amy Henkels,
Pamela Koffler, Katie Roumel & Mark Tusk
Cinematographer ^ Frank G DeMarco
Editor ^ Andrew Marcus
Art Director ^ Nancy Pankiw
Costumes ^ Arianne Phillips
Make-up & Hair stylist ^ Debra Johnson,
Mary Monforte & Mike Potter

 

 

 

 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Songs

"One Wig to Rule them all!"

TEAR ME DOWN
The show Hedwig and the Angry Inch, is the story of a woman who emerged from Berlin, Germany TEAR ME DOWN.

 

THE ORIGIN
OF LOVE
She tells a story of a bedtime story her mother told her when she was a little boy (yes, boy) of how the origin of sexes and sex came to be.

 

SUGAR DADDY
When Hansel (pre-Hedwig) is sunning himself in a crater, he meets American GI Luther Robinson. Luther asks Hansel to marry him and leave Berlin.

 

ANGRY INCH
Hansel has a sex change in order to get marry Luther.

 

WIG IN A BOX
Later, Luther has left Hedwig penniless and stuck in a trailer park in Junction City, Kansas. To top everything off, her mother has escaped Berlin to Yugoslavia, and the Berlin wall has been demolished.

 

WICKED
LITTLE TOWN

Hedwig takes a job babysitting a General's son Tommy Speck. Tommy goes to see her band (retro) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (which is made of Hedwig and three Korean house wives.)

 

THE LONG GRIFT
Hedwig and Tommy become the best of friends and begin to collaborate and perform their music. Tommy, in a fit, goes to see Hedwig for resolution and works on his difficult song. Hedwig gives Tommy the mark of the soon to be rock star Tommy Gnosis.

 

HEDWIG'S LAMENT
After negative sexual advances from Tommy, he leaves and is not heard from for a while. Years later the sudden success of Tommy Gnosis brings Hedwig to a lawsuit claiming Tommy stole her songs. While 'working' in "MoPa" A limo pulls up, Hedwig naturally thinking it's hers gets in and inside finds Tommy Gnosis. They get into a car accident. The lie Tommy has been living - where he has never met Hedwig in his life - has fallen through. After the fall of Gnosis, the rise of an Inch comes to place.

 

EXQUISITE CORPSE
and leads into a very hard beating ballad EXQUISITE CORPSE.

 

WICKED LITTLE
TOWN: REPRISE
During this number Hedwig becomes enraged and tears her shirt, bra and tomato breast revealing the truth. She fades into the fading background as the music dies out. Suddenly, Tommy Gnosis emerges (which is Hedwig minus a shirt and wig) and sings in a somewhat apologetic way for Hedwig.

 

MIDNIGHT RADIO
He leaves and hedwig is back with the symbols she gave him as almost a mockery/envy of Tommy. Hedwig leaves...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch from stage to screen

The stage show is basically one big monologue with some brief conversations between Hedwig, Yhitzak and the band. Also on stage, Hedwig would enter the third person to become Tommy Speck or her mother, etc. (minus the band) The film version changed all that. Every person mentioned in the stage show has been written into the film as a flesh-and-blood character. So Tommy Speck/Gnosis is now performed by a separate actor.

One powerful scene that did not make the final cut of the film was the opening scene leading directly into the song TEAR ME DOWN. It was shot to show Hedwig going down an alley passing a very large crowd to her 'venue'. The scene was supposed to make the audience think the crowd was there to see Hedwig. But they were actually there to see Tommy. (Maybe it'll be a special feature in the futures anniversary DVD?)

A cameo in the film, the make-up artist Mike Potter also plays the transvestite prostitute "MePa" opposite Hedwig. Originally producers tried to obtain the rights to the German version of "You light up my life" to conclude the show but could not. MIDNIGHT RADIO was used to replace that void.

A 'workshop of sorts' for the Hedwig ideas had originated at a drag bar in New York named Don Hill's SqueezeBox. Creators John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask had met on an airplane to New York.

When Hedwig was still in stage production at the Jane Street, the New Line Cinema production team had gone to see a performance. They approached John Cameron Mitchell about making Hedwig into a film, which included him reprising his star-making title role.

 

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