I’ve never seen someone work an apple crate quite like John Cameron Mitchell. It’s early 2015, and two weeks into his celebrated return to the iconic role and show he created with composer Stephen Trask, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” Mitchell has sustained a knee injury that severely limited his movement — especially in 4-inch fuck-me pumps. But, just like when I saw Patti LuPone do Rose’s Turn in Isotoners, Mitchell soldiered on, knee brace and all. Resting his leg on an apple crate, he invented a story that Hedwig had been attacked (perks of being the writer), and the whole injury seemed to make him even looser with the clever one-liners than usual.
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the radical rock opera about an East German cabaret singer who’s undergone a forced sex change, first debuted Off Broadway in 1998. Mitchell began developing the character in the mid-‘90s at Squeezebox,...
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the radical rock opera about an East German cabaret singer who’s undergone a forced sex change, first debuted Off Broadway in 1998. Mitchell began developing the character in the mid-‘90s at Squeezebox,...
- 6/28/2019
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