FILM 1365: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY
INCH
TRIVIA: The footage of Hedwig on The Rosie O'Donnell Show
(1996) was shot when "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" was just an
off-Broadway musical as a promotion for the show. When Rosie O'Donnell holds up
the Hedwig CD, it is a copy of the original off-Broadway cast recording.
The story depicted in the song
"Origin of Love" is from Plato's
"Symposium," in which Aristophanes
gives a speech about love being a product of the need to reunite with one's
other half after being split into two, as punishment for conspiring to usurp
the gods of Olympus.
Before it was a film and a musical
at the Jane Street Theater, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask created the
character "Hedwig". Mitchell donned drag for the first time speaking
in character and telling Hedwig's story between songs, written and played by
Stephen Trask. This was the first "drag performance act" that had a
storyline, live singing and a live band with original material.
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