VIDEO: HEDWIG's Darren Criss Explains Why Everyone Should Do a Drag Show

Darren Criss stopped by CBS's THE TALK to tells the hosts and guest co-host Beth Stern about meeting Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey at the same time and his handshake with President Obama. Later, Darren Criss chats about his Broadway play "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," in which he dresses in drag.

"Alot of my friends are telling me, 'oh man, those heels must be crazy," explains the GLEE star, "but I'm telling you, everybody should do a drag show at some point in their lives because they make these heels differently than your sort of nice heels, which are murderous and torturous. They're kind of custom built for me so I'm not in as much agony as you'd think I would be." He jokingly adds, "But I don't want you to not be impressed by me." Watch clips from the appearance below!

Criss will be appearing in Hedwig and the Angry Inch in a limited 12-week engagement at Broadway's Belasco Theatre.

Hedwig and The Angry Inch, with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, directed byMichael Mayer, has received rave reviews and is the winner of four TONY AWARDSincluding 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 members of "The Angry Inch," Hedwig's band, are music director Justin Craig (guitar and keyboards), Matt Duncan (bass), Tim Mislock (guitar), and Peter Yanowitz (drums).

"Internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Robinson (Darren Criss) 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."