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Neil Patrick Harris Opens Up About Life After HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
By: Nicole Rosky Sep. 16, 2014
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Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris played his final performance in Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch last month, in which he was replaced by stage and screen star Andrew Rannells. In a recent interview with Vulture, he opens up about life after Hedwig. He revealed: "It's so funny - I thought when the show was over that I'd get to sleep in and have my life back, but as it turns out, this week, I'm getting up earlier because I don't get to sleep in to protect my voice. And all the things I haven't been able to schedule because I've been doing the show, now I have to actually do them!"
On leaving Hedwig behind, he continued: "Hedwig, she is one tough cookie, and I will miss doing the show. That's going to be one of the great things I get to take with me my whole life. It was just so physically transformative, and I'm only just now getting the hair back on my arms, and getting some weight back on my frame. You know what I mean? I'm now in recovery! I'm turning back into guy mode."
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The musical with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, directed by Michael Mayer, is the winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival. In addition to the Tony, the production has been honored with Best Musical Revival by the Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle Awards.
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HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH was originally produced by David Binder off off Broadway at Westbeth and then, under the direction of Peter Askin, ran over two years at the Jane Street Theatre beginning in February 1998. The musical won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical and both John Cameron MitchellandStephen Trask won Obies in 2001. It won a 1998 New York Magazine Award and Entertainment Weekly's "Soundtrack of the Year" Award. Time Magazine named HEDWIG the Top Musical of 1998.
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