"How did some slip of a girly-boy from Communist East Berlin become
the internationally-ignored song-stylist barely standing before you?"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Bastard (Theatre) presents
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
TEXT BY JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL, MUSIC & LYRICS BY STEPHEN TRASK
February 14-23, 2013
Thursdays at 7:30 PM, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM & 10:30 PM
Downtown at The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress Street
All tickets $15.00 | Call (520) 425-4163 for more information
Adult Language and Content. No one under 16 admitted.
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Directed by Christopher Johnson with Musical Direction by David Lane
Featuring Dani Dryer at Yitzhak and Christopher Johnson as Hedwig
This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of “internationally ignored song-stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock 'n' roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just “an angry inch.” Originally produced in Tucson by Etcetera at Live Theatre Workshop, the 2009 Arizona Daily Star MAC Award-Winning production (Best Musical) and nominee for Best Actor (Christopher Johnson) and Best Actress (Dani Dryer) returns courtesy of The Bastard (Theatre) as it's inaugural production.
“HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH brings theater alive with the pounding sounds of rock 'n' roll and the funny sad voicing of a painful past…it is also an adult, thought-provoking musical about the quest for individuality…the kind of Rocky Horror Picture Show-style event that may inspire a rabid cult following.”
-The New York Times
“In the whole long, sorry history of rock musicals, HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH is the first one that truly rocks.”
-Rolling Stone
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
TEXT BY JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL, MUSIC & LYRICS BY STEPHEN TRASK
February 14-23, 2013
Thursdays at 7:30 PM, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM & 10:30 PM
Downtown at The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress Street
All tickets $15.00 | Call (520) 425-4163 for more information
Adult Language and Content. No one under 16 admitted.
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Directed by Christopher Johnson with Musical Direction by David Lane
Featuring Dani Dryer at Yitzhak and Christopher Johnson as Hedwig
This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of “internationally ignored song-stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock 'n' roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just “an angry inch.” Originally produced in Tucson by Etcetera at Live Theatre Workshop, the 2009 Arizona Daily Star MAC Award-Winning production (Best Musical) and nominee for Best Actor (Christopher Johnson) and Best Actress (Dani Dryer) returns courtesy of The Bastard (Theatre) as it's inaugural production.
“HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH brings theater alive with the pounding sounds of rock 'n' roll and the funny sad voicing of a painful past…it is also an adult, thought-provoking musical about the quest for individuality…the kind of Rocky Horror Picture Show-style event that may inspire a rabid cult following.”
-The New York Times
“In the whole long, sorry history of rock musicals, HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH is the first one that truly rocks.”
-Rolling Stone
Photos of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH courtesy of
Abril Castillo and Video Marketing Tucson
John Cameron Mitchell (Book)
John Cameron Mitchell’s HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, written with Stephen Trask, made its debut on the stage of Squeezebox, a New York City rock 'n' roll drag bar. The show then premiered Off-Broadway, receiving rave reviews. He was awarded an Obie Award, a "New York Magazine" Award, a Drama League Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical. He has received a Drama Desk Award Nomination the role of Dickon in the Broadway production of THE SECRET GARDEN. Off-Broadway, Mitchell received an Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award Nomination for the role of Larry Kramer in THE DESTINY OF ME. In Lincoln Center’s HELLO AGAIN, Mitchell received a Drama Desk Nomination. He also appeared in the original Broadway production of SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION and as Huck Finn in the Broadway production of BIG RIVER.
Stephen Trask (Music & Lyrics)
Stephen Trask is the author of the music and lyrics for HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. He was the original leader of the notorious Squeeze Box house band. During his time there as Music Director he performed with Debbie Harry, Lene Lovitch, Hole, Green Day, Joey Ramone, as well as New York's most popular drag queens. For five years Stephen performed with his band, Cheater, who originated the role of “The Angry Inch” Off-Broadway and performed on the original cast recording.
During HEDWIG’s reign at the Jane Street Theatre, Stephen received an Obie Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, a 1998 "New York Magazine" Award, Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Music, Outstanding Lyrics, and Outstanding New Musical, a Grammy Nomination for Best Cast Album, and two GLAMA Awards: Best Cast Album and Best Score for Film or Stage.
During HEDWIG’s reign at the Jane Street Theatre, Stephen received an Obie Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, a 1998 "New York Magazine" Award, Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Music, Outstanding Lyrics, and Outstanding New Musical, a Grammy Nomination for Best Cast Album, and two GLAMA Awards: Best Cast Album and Best Score for Film or Stage.
Christopher Johnson (Hedwig / Direction)
Christopher Johnson is the Founding Artistic Director of The Bastard (Theatre), Co-Artistic Director of Winding Road Theater Ensemble and a member of the Acting Company at The Rogue Theatre. This season he has directed the Tucson Premiere of SPEECH & DEBATE for Winding Road and appeared with The Rogue in JOURNEY TO THE WEST, THE NIGHT HERON and MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN. He originally portrayed Hedwig in 2009 for Etcetera, the late-night arm of Live Theatre Workshop -- where he was then serving a five-year stint as Artistic Director. His performance earned him an Arizona Daily Star MAC Award nomination for Best Actor, and the production itself took the honor for Best Musical. Other notable acting credits include THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING), TOUCH, ALL MY SONS, LEMON SKY, THE SANTALAND DIARIES, BUG, SWEET EROS, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, PSYCHO BEACH PARTY and AS I LAY DYING. More information, including a full biography and current projects can be found at ChristopherLeeJohnson.com.
Dani Dryer (Yitzhak)
Dani Dryer has performed in Tucson with Etcetera at Live Theatre Workshop as Star Cat (PSYCHO BEACH PARTY), Mouse / Rat (PERSEPHONE OR SLOW TIME), Kelly (DYING CITY), Nintendo 64 (ROBOTS VS. FAKE ROBOTS), Sister (THE EATING DISORDER TALENT SHOW), The Cactus (MR. MARMALADE), Riff Raff (THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW), Roberta (DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA), Token Dyke (THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST), Cat (KITTY KITTY KITTY), Yitzhak (HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH -- a performance which earned her an AZ Daily Star MAC Award nomination for Best Actress), April (SAVAGE IN LIMBO), R.C. (BUG), Tybalt (ROMEO & JULIET), The Dolphin Masturbator (Old Pueblo Playwrights: UNBOUND) and Bottom (A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM) as well as in staged readings of THE ALTRUISTS and BOOM. She has also appeared with Winding Road Theater Ensemble (UNITED), Arizona Onstage Productions (STEEL MAGNOLIAS) and The Rogue Theatre (JOURNEY TO THE WEST and MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN).
David Lane (Music Direction)
David Lane is a composer of music and words who normally finds himself working on projects of his own creation with a local audience and an always growing scope. These include his work co-founding, co-writing for, and co-singing for the musical group Banquets, his work as the solo musician Madame Zero, and additional fiction, poetry and film work. Most recently, his first musical is being recorded and prepared for pitching and his novella THE CHANGING CALENDAR OF PALAISE is out in the press market. HEDWIG has been a centrally influential work for David, helping him develop his thoughts about what creates who we are, how our sources of creation inspire our own, and the potential for our creations to unassumingly become something we never intended. As Sondheim wrote and many have sung, “It's the ripple not the sea. / Not the building but the beam.”
Shana Nunez (Costumes / Makeup Design)
Shana Nunez received a 2009 MAC Award nomination for Best Direction for her work on Etcetera's production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. She has provided costume design for local productions of STEEL MAGNOLIAS, FAT PIG, HOLY SPIRIT ON GRAND AVENUE, I WROTE THIS PLAY TO MAKE YOU LOVE ME, SAVAGE IN LIMBO, KITTY KITTY KITTY, ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS, THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL, MASTER CLASS, BUG, IRON KISSES, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, DON’T TALK TO THE ACTORS, PSYCHO BEACH PARTY, DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY and SWEENEY TODD, to name a few. She serves on Winding Road Theater Ensemble’s board of directors as well as on the Pima Country Joint Technical Education Advisory Committee.
