John Cameron Mitchell will give Hedwig again.
Yes! The creator and original-flavor star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch will reprise his seminal role as the transgender, internationally ignored song stylist from East Berlin whose failed failed sex-change operation left her with...an angry inch – a part he originated Off Off-Broadway in the mid-to-late-’90s – on Broadway, in 2015.
Mitchell will take over the Tony-winning musical on Jan. 21 after Michael C. Hall leaves the production (Hall took over for Andrew Rannells last month, and Rannells, of course, took over, for Neil Patrick Harris, the Broadway show’s original star, in August).
The writer-director had previously said he would not be stepping into Hedwig’s heels again, for he had seen what Harris had done in the role. He reportedly said he thought, “[the choreography] would have to be radically scaled back” since he had not been on stage in a show in like, 15 years.
Guess he ultimately felt it was like riding a bicycle, huh.
Photo: MontrealGazette.com.
Update: Click here to read a swell interview that JCM did with Towleroad, about his grand return to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which is, mercifully, taking place “before I collapse into old age.”
His words, not mine.
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