Following her Tony-winning performance in the 2014 Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch as Yitzhak, Lena Hall is pulling a different wig out of the box and hitting the road as the title character for some cities along the production's national tour.
The lucky followers of Hall's Instagram got an early sneak peek of the actress in part of her costume; check out the photo she posted below!
Hedwig and The Angry Inch, with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and book by JohnCameron Mitchell, directed byMichael Mayer, has received rave reviews for its Broadway run and is the winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival. It was also awarded Best Musical Revival by 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.
The film of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, directed by John Cameron Mitchell, won the Audience Award and Best Director Awards at Sundance. Mitchell won the Best New Director from the National Board of Review, the Gotham Awards, and the LA Critics Society. Stage productions have played for many years in Japan and in 2008, Korea hosted a popular televised reality show about the search for a new star to play Hedwig.
The creative team for Hedwig and the Angry Inch features Emmy Award nominee Spencer Liff(musical staging), Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Julian Crouch(scenic design), Tony Award and two-time Oscar nominee AriAnne Phillips(costume design), four-time Tony Award winner Kevin Adams (lighting design), Mike Potter(hair and makeup design), Tony Award nominee and platinum-selling record producer Tim O'Heir(sound design),Benjamin Pearcy for 59 Productions (projection design), John Bair/Phosphene (animation), James Calleri(casting), Tony and Grammy Award nominee Ethan Popp (music supervisor & music coordinator), Justin Craig (music director),Liz Caplan (vocal supervision), Stephen Gabis(dialect coach), and Johanna McKeon (associate director).
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