Lift Up Your Hands for Lena Hall! Tony Winner Departs HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Tonight
By: Nicole Rosky Apr. 04, 2015
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As BroadwayWorld previously announced, Hedwig and the Angry Inch's Tony Award winner Lena Hall plays her final performance as Yitzhak tonight, April 4. Hall created the role of Yitzhak at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street) and has co-starred with all four actors who have played Hedwig on Broadway: Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, Tony Award nominee Andrew Rannells, Golden Globe and Drama Desk Award winner Michael C. Hall, and current Hedwig and show co-creator John Cameron Mitchell.
Shannon Conley will play the role of Yitzhak for one week starting Tuesday, April 7. Rebecca Naomi Jones (American Idiot, Passing Strange), will join the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival, in the role of Yitzhak, beginning Tuesday April 14 at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street).
Hall's previous Broadway and Off-Broadway roles include starring as Nicola in the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots (Original Cast), starring in the award winning Toxic Avenger at New World Stages, Tarzan (Original Cast), Dracula (Original Cast), 42nd Street (Anytime Annie), Cats (Demeter), Bedbugs (NYMF) and Green Eyes (Fringe). TV and Film roles include "Young Miranda" in the Sex and the City film, The Stepford Wives,The Graduates, "All My Children" and "Legally Blonde, the Search for the Next Elle Woods." Born and raised in San Francisco, CA; Hall traveled the world performing and received her first big break singing for Pope John Paul II at Candlestick Stadium for over 50,000 people at the young age of 7. Hall was a member of the Young People's Teen Musical Theatre Company in San Francisco and at the age of 17, joined the national tour of Cats. When not on the Broadway stage, Lena performs with her band The Deafening.
To celebrate Hall's amazing year as Yitzak, BroadwayWorld is flashing back to her journey with the show!
In January 2014, it was announced that Hall would join Neil Patrick Harris in a revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Rehearsals began in February.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Director Michael Mayer, Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Director Michael Mayer, Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Director Michael Mayer, Lena Hall,Neil Patrick Harris and producer David Binder
Previews began at the Belasco Theatre in March 2014:
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Tim Mislock, Neil Patrick Harris, Peter Yanowitz, Lena Hall, Matt Duncan, Justin Craig
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
The cast celebrated opening night on April 22, 2014:
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Lena Hall and Neil Patrick Harris
Lena Hall, Neil Patrick Harris and Band
Lena Hall, Neil Patrick Harris and Band
Hall performed at Stars in the Alley in May 2014:
She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance... and won!
She then went on to perform the role with three other Hedwigs before wrapping up her own run:
Lena Hall and John Cameron Mitchell
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