VIDEO: Watch HEDWIG's Neil Patrick Harris Do a Hoedown on 'Today'

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Neil Patrick Harris stopped by this morning's TODAY on NBC to talk about his new Broadway musical 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' for which he received a Tony nomination for Best Lead Actor, as well as his new film, 'A Million Ways to Die in the West.'

In the film, Harris dons a moustache for his character who performs a complicated barn yard dance to 'The Moustache Song.' "I put the 'ho' in hoedown", joked the talented actor as he demonstrated a few of the dance steps for Today's Matt Lauer. Check out the appearance below!

About HEDWIG:

Neil Patrick Harris' returns to Broadway in the new production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the musical with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, directed by Michael Mayer. The limited engagement, featuring Lena Hall(Kinky Boots, lead singer of The Deafening), opened Tuesday, April 22 at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street).

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.

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.