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“...HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH is the musical you must see. Trust me, people will be talking about this show for years. The sheer earbone-jarring energy, heart ripping poignance and gender-trashed mashup won’t be equaled anywhere else around here. Dramatically tall Christopher Johnson in drag is spreading every ounce of his life out on stage to portray Hedwig...Equally powerful is the stage band of musical director David Lane, piano/guitar, joined by Miles Bartlett, guitar, Ben Schneider, bass, and the totally hyperkinetic drummer Andrew Lane. Stepping up as Hedwig’s angry associate, the weary-eyed Yitzhak with his perpetual five o’clock shadow is the convincing Dani Dryer."
--Chuck Graham, Tucsonstage.com
"Raw, raucous, raunchy. That's HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. The play with loud rock music; a singer in drag and drenched in glitter; a killer band; lots of F-bombs; even more double entendres; and a bizarre, delicious, poignant story partially inspired by Plato's "Symposium" is on stage at the Screening Room. The sometimes-movie theater is the perfect setting for "Hedwig," the first production of the newly created The Bastard (Theatre)...His (Johnson's) Hedwig is a little more weary in this incarnation, a touch more cynical. And the character's heartbreak and longing are deeper and sadder in this production, which Johnson also produced and directed. Dani Dryer is also reprising her role of one-time drag queen Yitzhak, Hedwig's sideman. She, too, has matured into this role of a man who stands by and takes way too much verbal abuse from Hedwig, whom he loves deeply...The pain and longing are etched in Dryer's face and worn like a tight suit...They (The Band) had no problem slipping into the roles of Hedwig's back-up band, dubbed The Angry Inch. They played with energy, often expertise, and laced their characters with a wry humor, giving them solid definition. They were an integral part of the production and they reveled in it; so did the audience. There are flaws in "Hedwig" - the sound was muddy at times, the story has its holes, there is lots of attachment to being outrageous for outrageousness' sake. But they are flaws that seem to add to the rawness, the vibrancy and the grand fun that makes up this heartfelt and heady HEDWIG."
--Kathleen Allen, The Arizona Daily Star
Click below to check out our previews from The Tucson Weekly, The Arizona Daily Star and The Tucson Sentinel:
'HEDWIG' IS THEATER'S FIRST SHOW in The Arizona Daily Star
MUSICAL THEATER, PUNK ROCK STYLE in The Tucson Weekly
CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: HEDWIG'S ANGER MANAGER in The Tucson Sentinel
--Chuck Graham, Tucsonstage.com
"Raw, raucous, raunchy. That's HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. The play with loud rock music; a singer in drag and drenched in glitter; a killer band; lots of F-bombs; even more double entendres; and a bizarre, delicious, poignant story partially inspired by Plato's "Symposium" is on stage at the Screening Room. The sometimes-movie theater is the perfect setting for "Hedwig," the first production of the newly created The Bastard (Theatre)...His (Johnson's) Hedwig is a little more weary in this incarnation, a touch more cynical. And the character's heartbreak and longing are deeper and sadder in this production, which Johnson also produced and directed. Dani Dryer is also reprising her role of one-time drag queen Yitzhak, Hedwig's sideman. She, too, has matured into this role of a man who stands by and takes way too much verbal abuse from Hedwig, whom he loves deeply...The pain and longing are etched in Dryer's face and worn like a tight suit...They (The Band) had no problem slipping into the roles of Hedwig's back-up band, dubbed The Angry Inch. They played with energy, often expertise, and laced their characters with a wry humor, giving them solid definition. They were an integral part of the production and they reveled in it; so did the audience. There are flaws in "Hedwig" - the sound was muddy at times, the story has its holes, there is lots of attachment to being outrageous for outrageousness' sake. But they are flaws that seem to add to the rawness, the vibrancy and the grand fun that makes up this heartfelt and heady HEDWIG."
--Kathleen Allen, The Arizona Daily Star
Click below to check out our previews from The Tucson Weekly, The Arizona Daily Star and The Tucson Sentinel:
'HEDWIG' IS THEATER'S FIRST SHOW in The Arizona Daily Star
MUSICAL THEATER, PUNK ROCK STYLE in The Tucson Weekly
CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: HEDWIG'S ANGER MANAGER in The Tucson Sentinel
