HEDWIG heads to Broadway
HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 8:16am
After years of rumors, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH will (may) be hitting Broadway this fall.
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/hedwig_inches_to_way_stage_CyesdeRQZ8TBdsZGkjjFNL
#2HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 8:30am
To see Mitchell tackle the role 12 years after he did Off-Broadway would be a treat. 
"When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written." -Stephen Sondheim
broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#2HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 9:28am
Since Mitchell still looks about 12, it will be...as long as he still has the voice.
Saw the original incarnation and can't wait to see it again.
#3HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 9:31amHeard him sing one song at Joe's Pub a few months back and it was such a wonderful reminder of how fabulous his voice is. I desperately want this to be true.
#4HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 9:50amThis is the most exciting Broadway news I've heard in a LOOOONG time. I pray Miriam Shor reprises her role for this as well!!!!
#5HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 9:53amYet another tiny, inexpensive show to get lost in a big house. The joy of that original production (which I saw 3 times, not to mention several earlier versions in East Village bars) was its intimacy. It'll be a soulless experience in a big commercial house.
#6HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:00amBy the time this is ready to come in, chances are that there will be a small, vacant theater.
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#7HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:01amI really hope this sells, because this show is SOOOOOOOOOOO good.
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#8HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:02amCircle in the Square would have been the perfect theatre in its original thrust configuration, but I'm not sure how the show would work in the round. Is there any way that they can put it back the way that it was?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#9HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:07amOh that would be great! I can only imagine how many great jokes can be done about Hedwig doing the show on the set of THE MIRACLE WORKER.
#10HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:08amGod let this be true
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#11HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:15am
Wow. Seeing JCM do it again would certainly be worth the price of admission!
However, I do worry about the show getting lost in a big house. The Jane at 300 seats was just right. There was recently a one night performance of Hedwig at NWS and somehow it didn't work so well in the 360 seat house.
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#12HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:22amI only wish the Weisslers were producing so we could see a parade of celebrity Hedwigs....Taylor Hicks! Joe Jonas! Justin Bieber!
#13HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:34amJoe, now you stop that! Perish those blasphemous thoughts!
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#14HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:44am
The smallest Broadway house, the Helen Hayes (597 seats), is twice the size of the Jane Street. There is no Broadway house small enough for this small, bohemian piece. Next is Circle (775), then the Booth with 800.
As much as people want to see everything they love move to Broadway (although I can't imagine why), putting this show there would be a disservice. Putting Yank on Broadway would be a disservice; Putting [title of show] on Broadway was a disservice. Loving a show is a great thing; but love it appropriately. Not everything works on Broadway.
#15HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:47amDidn't Constantine Maroulis play Hedwig at one point?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#16HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 10:47am^ exactly. Well said.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#17HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 11:05amI know he sings some of the Hedwig songs in his show but I don't know if he ever actually put on the dress....But he certainly should! As well as Usher! Huey Lewis! Whoopi Goldberg!
#18HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 11:31amNewintown, very well said.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#19HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 11:34amAnd of course, Riedel had to make some kind of snarky comment that totally lost me.
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#20HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 11:55am
Constantine did play Hedwig. I remember reading that he was brilliant.
http://www.portlandphoenix.com/archive/theater/01/08/17/hedwig.html
#21HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 11:58amThis is exciting! I was far too young to see Hedwig when it was off-Broadway but I love the movie adaptation and I would love to see it live, especially with John Cameron Mitchell.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#22HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 12:05pm
I loved Hedwig but I can't imagine it in a Broadway theatre. I'm actually surprised to hear that the Jane had 300 seats. I don't remember it being even that big! :)
Constantine isn't the only Rent alum to have played Hedwig (although he did it prior to Rent). Anthony Rapp did, too.
#23HEDWIG heads to Broadway
Posted: 3/31/10 at 12:05pm
"The joy of that original production (which I saw 3 times, not to mention several earlier versions in East Village bars) was its intimacy."
I disagree with this. The joys of the early productions (indeed all productions) were the thrilling score, brilliant book and astonishing performances. This show is so supremely constructed it can certainly fill a Broadway house.
Though I didn't get to see the early performances at the Squeezebox, I did see the show twice at the Westbeth, when it was set in a TGI Fridays and still had the German-language version of 'You Light Up My Life' (which I still wish was in the show...it was transcendent). I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that this show could fill a Broadway house and thrive. None.
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