{"id":25151,"date":"2015-07-16T07:57:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=25151"},"modified":"2015-07-16T07:57:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:57:32","slug":"broadways-hedwig-gets-a-new-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/theater\/broadways-hedwig-gets-a-new-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway\u2019s \u201cHedwig\u201d Gets a New Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Cameron Mitchell&#039;s Final Curtain Call - Hedwig And the Angry Inch Broadway 4\/26\/15\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WOwsAg2aeqk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Starting July 22, 2015 Broadway veteran Taye Diggs will become the first African-American to play the lead role in \u201cHedwig and the Angry Inch.\u201d Previously played by other famous names such as Neil Patrick Harris, Michael C. Hall, and Darren Criss; Hedwig has been considered the role of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHedwig\u201d is a rock musical about an East German musician named Hansel Schmidt, who assumes a female persona after a botched sex-change surgery. After marrying an American drag queen and escaping East Germany, Hansel, now known as Hedwig Robinson relocates to Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>Written by John Cameron Mitchell, the musical was inspired by Mitchell\u2019s own life as the son of a U.S. Army Major General. Hedwig\u2019s character was based off of a German divorced U.S. Army wife who worked as a babysitter for Mitchell\u2019s family during the day, and then at night assumed the role of a prostitute in a trailer park in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>The music and lyrics were written by Stephen Trask. The style follows an androgynous 1970s glam rock, similar to David Bowie\u2019s music; with punk rock vibes that make you nostalgic of Iggy Pop and Lou Reed.<\/p>\n<p>This past week \u201cHedwig and the Angry Inch\u201d grossed $533,938. However before its success, in the mid-90s \u201cHedwig\u201d started out as a series of 30-minute segments of cover songs at Squeezebox!, a club where drag queens performed. It was nearly half a decade before the show was finally complete and ready for the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The current run of \u201cHedwig and the Angry Inch\u201d began in April 2014 with Neil Patrick Harris as the lead. The show won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical Revival. The musical\u2019s weekly grosses began to drop this spring, but the show\u2019s lead producer David Binder is confident that fitting the roles with an all-star cast will continue to draw in audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Taye Diggs made his Broadway debut in \u201cRent.\u201d He has since acted on the television show \u201cPrivate Practice\u201d and has been in films like the movie adaption of \u201cChicago.\u201d With his extensive resume, Mr. Diggs should have no trouble at all filling those shiny gold go-go boots.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/Search?query=Hedwig+and+the+Angry+Inch&amp;x=0&amp;y=0#102\">grab your tickets for the show<\/a>, and make sure that you don&#8217;t miss out on an experience of a lifetime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting July 22, 2015 Broadway veteran Taye Diggs will become the first African-American to play the lead role in \u201cHedwig and the Angry Inch.\u201d Previously&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25161,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151\/revisions\/25161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}