Taye Diggs Knows How to 'Let It Go' for HEDWIG

Taye Diggs knows how to "Let It Go" when it counts.

The New York Post writes that the new star of Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch wasn't sure whether a line about his ex-wife, Idina Menzel, would remain in the script once he took over the title role.

Hedwig interrupts the middle of another character's song with the wisecrack: "Idina sang it better."

And according the Post, Diggs delivered the line with gusto during yesterday's dress rehearsal and even ad-libbed a reference to FROZEN's award-winning power-ballad "Let It Go," belted by Broadway diva Menzel in the Disney animated film.

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Diggs returns to Broadway in HEDWIG for a limited engagement beginning tonight, July 22, at the Belasco Theatre, with co-star Rebecca Naomi Jones as 'Yitzhak.' HEDWIG marks Diggs' first New York stage role since the 2005 revival of A SOLDIER'S PLAY.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, directed by Michael Mayer, has received rave reviews and is the winner of four 2014 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 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).

"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."

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