HEDWIG and the ANGY INCH - a video preview of the upcoming BC/EFA benefit
| Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids (BC/EFA) in association with GoFigure Productions present a one night only performance of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's Off-Broadway Smash Hit HEDWIG and the ANGRY INCH on Monday October 30th at 8PM. This Halloween benefit for BC/EFA will once again feature David Colbert in the title role and Petra DeLuca in her gender-bending role as Hedwig's lover, Yitzhak. |
Back after last year's smash SOLD OUT success at the York Theater
Hedwig moves downtown for ONE NIGHT ONLY
to the newly renovated Player's Theater in the heart of the
Since the SOLD OUT benefit performance last year at the York Theater, Colbert and DeLuca have performed in Sarasota, FL, where David was named Best Actor in a musical by the Sarasota Herald Tribune, and in Lexington, KY, where the entire company was inducted by Governor Ernie Fletcher into the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, the highest honor awarded in the state.
As Hedwig, David Colbert brought audiences to their feet with his impassioned portrayal of the German-born rocker who survived a botched sex-change operation to become an over-the-top rock diva in the spirit of Freddie Mercury with Farrah Fawcett tresses. Since 2002, between the two of them, Colbert and DeLuca have taken their portrayals to
Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the story of an "internationally ignored" rock singer, Hedwig, and her search for love and stardom. Born a boy named Hansel whose life's dream is to find his other half, Hedwig reluctantly submits to a sex change operation in order to marry an American G.I. and get over the Berlin Wall to freedom. The operation is botched, leaving her with the aforementioned "angry inch." Finding herself high, dry and divorced in a
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