In the Spotlight Series: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH's Taye Diggs
By: Walter McBride Jul. 20, 2015
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Darren Criss just concluded his limited 12-week engagement in Broadway's HEDIWG AND THE ANGRY INCH, the Tony Award winning Best Musical Revival, yesterday, July 19. He started performances on April 29 at the Belasco Theatre. As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Taye Diggs will take over the role starting Wednesday, July 22, making his return to Broadway after a decade-long hiatus. Diggs will also play the title role in the acclaimed musical for a limited 12-week engagement.
Hedwig will mark Diggs' first New York stage role since the 2005 revival of A Soldier's Play. This summer, he has been in production for the second season of Steven Bochco's crime drama "Murder in the First," which will premiere Monday, June 8 on TNT.
He made his Broadway debut in 1994 in the Tony Award-winning revival of Carousel. Soon after, he landed the role of Benny in in the landmark musicalRent, a role he recreated in the 2005 film version. Diggs other New York stage credits include Chicago, Wicked, and Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party. His many film and television credits include How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Go, Chicago,The Best Man, its follow up The Best Man Holiday, and six seasons on ABC's hit drama "Private Practice."
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, directed byMichael Mayer, also stars Rebecca Naomi Jones as Yitzhak. The production has received rave reviews and is winner of four 2014 Tony Awards and won Best Musical Revival by the Tony Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. The Grammy nominated Original Broadway Cast album for Hedwig and the Angry Inch is available from Atlantic Records.
"Internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Robinson (Taye Diggs) brings her fourth-wall-smashing rock and roll saga to New York to set the record straight about her life, her loves, and the botched operation that left her with that "angry inch."
Hedwig has inspired a generation of young theatre writers and audiences. This wickedly funny and heartbreaking show was called "the Best Rock Musical Ever" by Rolling Stone and "the most exciting rock score written for the theatre since, oh, ever," by Time Magazine.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
Taye Diggs photographed at The Lamb's Club on June 30, 2015 in New York City.
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