Hedwig and the angry inch original cast recording by. Hedwig and the angry inch original broadway cast lyrics. Hedwig, lead singer of the angry inch, is forever telling people how he gets down on his knees to give thanks. Brilliantly innovative and oddly endearing, hedwig and the angry inchinspired by platos s. A local musicaltheater standout with a guysguy stage presence tackles transgender role in hedwig and the angry inch.
John cameron mitchell adapted his hit offbroadway play hedwig and the angry inch, cowriting, directing, and starring in the film, and was named best director at the 2001 sundance film festival. Inside hedwig and the angry inch background and analysis by scott miller she makes her entrance like a star dying to be born goosestepping through the audience with the arrogant aplomb of marlene dietrich and jim morrison. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. John cameron mitchell reflects on hedwig and the angry inch duration. This genrebending, fourthwallsmashing musical sensation, with a pulsing score and electrifying. By doing this the film celebrates the human being as something beautiful and important in itself and breaks the labelling mechanism in our heads. Hedwig and the angry inch is a play that needs to be seen to be appreciated. Personalities who are described as extraordinary, unusual, uncommon, out of society, become common and ordinary. The title character of hedwig and the angry inch, a wouldbe glamrock star from east germany, undergoes a botched genderchange operation in order to escape from the soviet bloc, only to watch the berlin wall come down on tv after being abandoned in a trailer park in middle america. Hedwig and the angry inch is a 1998 musical about a fictional rock and roll band of the same name fronted by an east german transgender woman, with a book by john cameron mitchell who also played the title role in the original production and film, and music and lyrics by stephen trask. Hedwig and the angry inch national tour official site. Official site for the tony awardwinning musical hedwig and the angry inch. This theory is featured and explored in the musical film hedwig and the angry inch 2001, which tells the story of a transexual woman, hedwig, who struggles with her art, music, and search for love. Hedwig and the angry inch 2014 broadway tickets, news.
Hedwig and the angry inch is a rock musical about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by an east german transgender singer. See more ideas about hedwig, john cameron mitchell and cameron mitchell. Hedwig and the angry inch and platos symposium movies. Hedwig and the angry inch is a rock musical with music and lyrics by stephen trask and a book by john cameron mitchell. Hedwig and the angry inch by john cameron mitchell goodreads. Hedwig and the angry inch opened tuesday on broadway at the belasco theatre, and. In the early 1990s shor landed a variety of roles in many offbroadway productions, including the rock musical hedwig and the angry inch by. I have never seen it in performance, but after listening to, and liking, the recent broadway cast album i decided i needed to know the story and what the heck was going on. W hen i saw the offbroadway stage version of hedwig and the angry inch a few years ago, i admired john cameron mitchells performance as a transgendered rock and roll starlet. Hedwig and the angry inch and platos symposium bryan kimbutler, vassar college at the heart of the recent film hedwig and the angry inch 2001 is the question of love. Symposium by plato aristophanes influence in contemporary times. Caleb reese in phoenix theatres hedwig and the angry inch.
Platonic, until death do us part with john cameron. But the 2001 american film, hedwig and the angry inch, by john cameron mitchell, who also starred as the protagonist, hedwig, provides new insights into the idea of love. The pursuit of eros in platos symposium and hedwig and. From symposium to hedwig and the angry inch vickie liang. Reading and queering plato in hedwig and the angry inch. A friend brought me to hedwig and the angry inch a few months after it opened offbroadway in 1998. Hedwig and the angry inch is a 2001 american musical comedydrama film written for the screen and directed by john cameron mitchell.
John cameron mitchell reads platonic, until death do us part. Decades later, hedwig and the angry inch is still bold. This genrebending, fourthwallsmashing musical sensation, with a pulsing. Hedwig and the angry inch 2001, hedwig and the angry inch traskmitchell, broadway fandom, john cameron mitchell fandom general audiences no archive warnings apply. My sexchange operation got botched my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch now all i got is a barbie dollcrotch ive got an angry inch. The desire for beauty moves from physical to intellectual love. The pursuit of eros in platos symposium and hedwig and the angry. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the south. Hedwig s search for love is a pursuit for her other half, just like plato s idea of love. Rain falls hard burns dry a dream or a song that hits you so hard. It was presented offbroadway at the jane street theatre on february 14, 1998 by peter askin, susann brinkley, james b.
But hedwig and the angry inch caught me totally offguard. My platonic romance on the psych ward with miriam shor. The aim of this article is to show how an ancient myth, that of the three genres, also known as the myth of the androgynous by aristophanes in plato s symposium, becomes for john cameron mitchell the suitable image in order to explain the peculiar. Hedwig and the angry inch 2001 the criterion collection. Additional cities will be announced throughout the spring. John cameron mitchell adapted his hit offbroadway play hedwig and the angry inch, cowriting, directing, and starring in the film, and was named best. The story draws on mitchells life as the child of a u. Brilliantly innovative, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny, hedwig and the angry inch is the landmark musical by john cameron mitchell and stephen trask that is groundbreaking and undoubtedly ahead of its time entertainment weekly. Hedwig and the angry inch as a mythological collage. Hedwig and the angry inch 2001 r comedy, drama, music, musical a transexual punk rock girl from east berlin tours the us with her rock band as she tells her life story and follows the exboyfriendbandmate who stole her songs. The title character of hedwig and the angry inch, a wouldbe glamrock star from east germany, undergoes a botched genderchange operation in order to escape from the soviet bloc, only to watch the berlin wall come down on tv after being abandoned in a trailer park. Throughout the film, hedwig refers to aristophanes speech in platos symposium.
Hedwig and the angry inch hereafter hedwig is the cinematic interpre tation of an offbroadway rock musical dironicling the sexual and spir itual life of hansel, an east german teen, transformed into hedwig. Symposium by plato aristophanes influence in contemporary. I first fell in love with hedwig on the tonys when he song sugar daddy live. Hedwig and the angry inch 2001 works archive of our own. Hedwig and the angry inch does the same thing for its characters. Dichotomies, gender, and sexuality in hedwig and the. A small man, mitchell grew physically and metaphorically when he donned a bighair blonde wig, bugeye glasses and a fauxfur cape. I downloaded this believing it to be an updated version of the original hedwig script that would mirror the broadway stage show. Needless to say, if you havent yet had a spare moment in the intervening nine years to see it but still hope to catch a latenight showing of the film hedwig and the angry inch this thread may. The musical follows hedwig schmidt, a genderqueer east german singer of a fictional rock and roll band. Hedwig and the angry inch buy study guide as the first philosophical writing on love in western literature, it is important that in the symposium plato praises male, homosexual love as the purest, real kind of love.
Hedwig and the angry inch 2001 download full hd youtube. John cameron mitchell reads platonic, until death do us. While supporting herself with babysitting gigs, she falls for a 16yearold jesus freak she. Waltzing up the aisle of the fabulously funky ballroom theater of a waterfront hotel that once housed the surviving crew members of the titanic, john cameron mitchell sports a barbara mandrell cottoncandy wig, a fringed denim cowgirl camisole, and a flagstriped cape, the inside of which is spraypainted yankee go home. Hedwig and the angry inch, a musical film about a queer punk rocker, alludes to a part of platos symposium in which aristophanes narrates a mystical origin of love.
Hedwig and the angry inch sometimes grace and hope come in surprising packages. Based on mitchells and stephen trasks stage musical hedwig and the angry inch, it accompanies hedwig robinson, a genderqueer east german rock singer. John cameron mitchell is the creator, director and star of hedwig and the angry inch and creator of the new musical podcast anthem. Id heard of the show in passing and hadnt been much tempted. Hedwig and the angry inch is a 2001 american musical comedydrama film written for the. He had a powerful, clear voice which imbued the mediocre, only. The musical has gathered a devoted cult following, and was adapted into the 2001 american musical film of. Windy city times news archive theater hedwig and the angry inch playwright.
The musical premiered in 1998 and has been performed throughout the world in hundreds of stage productions. Platonic, until death do us part with john cameron mitchell. The way i interpreted the openended ending is that the other half isnt out there in the world or the form of other people. The origin of love is hedwigs version of a creation story, specifically an adaptation of platos symposium. Download citation the pursuit of eros in platos symposium and hedwig and the angry inch john cameron mitchells film hedwig and the angry inch 2001. The text is by john cameron mitchell, and the music and lyrics are by stephen trask. Morton sings the hot pants off hedwig and the angry inch. Brilliantly innovative and oddly endearing, hedwig and the angry inchinspired by platos. Hedwig gets involved with tommy, an adolescent boy who steals. Hedwig euan morton in hedwig and the angry inch, which is about a rocker in drag who was born a boy but, because of a botched operation, has been cast into gender limbo. Undeterred, hedwig dons immaculate makeup and a farrah fawcett wig and forms a rock bandthe angry inch. Hedwig was born a boy named hansel in communist east berlin who dreamed of finding his other half and becoming a big american rock star.
Mitchell wrote and starred in the musical hedwig and the angry inch. Our podcast in the old hedwig offbroadway germanstyle text. Written and originally performed by john cameron mitchell, the show tells. Following the oneweek engagement in san diego, the national tour of hedwig and the angry inch will then continue to play major cities across north america through july 2017 with morton and corneau.
Hedwig subsequently develops a relationship with a younger man, tommy, becoming his mentor and musical. Hedwig and the angry inch 2001 john cameron mitchell. Hedwig and the angry inch starts off as a kind of trashy joke. How did some slip of a girly boy from communist east berlin become the internationally ignored song stylist barely standing before you. How does one interpret the ending of hedwig and the angry. Hedwig and the angry inch 2001 bluray criterion collection. All hedwig and the angry inch original broadway cast lyrics sorted by popularity, with video and meanings. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Among these various perspectives on love, socrates concept of love for wisdom is deemed to be the core value of what we call platonic love today. Joan marcus what you can say about euan morton in the touring company of hedwig and the angry inch at the. Dichotomies, gender, and sexuality in hedwig and the angry inch posted on december 8, 2015 december 8, 2015 by jennawritesthings this topic has probably been analyzed and overanalyzed since the first production of john cameron mitchells hedwig and the angry inch premiered offoffbroadway a couple of decades ago. High quality hedwig and the angry inch gifts and merchandise. With this trailblazing musical, writerdirectorstar john cameron mitchell and composerlyricist stephen trask brought their signature.