Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Fridays & Saturdays, September 14th-29th

Shows begin at 8pm

***Warning: This show has a live rock band on stage and it will get loud. We are providing earplugs for those who want them***

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by an East German transgender singer.

The text is by John Cameron Mitchell, and the music and lyrics are by Stephen Trask. The musical premiered in 1998 and has been performed throughout the world in hundreds of stage productions. The story draws on Mitchell's life as the son of a U.S. Army Major General who once commanded the U.S. sector of occupied West Berlin. The character of Hedwig was originally inspired by a German divorced U.S. Army wife who was a Mitchell family babysitter and moonlighted as a prostitute at her Junction City, Kansas trailer park home. The music is steeped in the androgynous 1970s glam rock era of David Bowie (who co-produced the Los Angeles production of the show), as well as the work of John Lennon and early punk godfathers Lou Reed and Iggy Pop.

Directed by Erin Roberg, Band Director- Ryan Cassavaugh, Technician- Randall Blair, Origin of Love Illustrations- Marla Goodman, Other Illustrations- Ben Sevilla.

Setting: Hotel Riverview, New York City, 1998.

Cast

Hedwig/Tommy Gnosis- Ben Sevilla, Yitzhak- Erin Roberg

The Angry Inch: Jacek- Avital Pelakh, Schlatko- Ryan Cassavaugh, Krzyzhtof- Jake Lowder, Ratinir- Paul Rose, Skszp- Wren Goodman.