According to Michael Riedel’s column in the New York Daily Post, John Cameron Mitchell is preparing to bring his off-Broadway hit, last seen onstage in New York at the Jane Street Theatre in 2000, to a Broadway theatre in the fall of 2010 for a glorious revival. Also returning will be director Peter Askin, producer David Binder and composer Stephen Trask who plans on writing a few new songs for the revival. Hedwig, the story of a transgendered East German rock star and her relationship with the “Yin” to her “Yang”, her protege Tommy Gnosis has delighted LGBT fans since the original production in 1998. And, that devotion was cemented by the popularity of the film adaptation, directed by Mitchell himself, who has gone on to direct, but not act in, the controversial live-sex film “Shortbus” and the currently filming “Rabbit Hole” starring Nicole Kidman set to open by the end of the year. Mitchell remarks in the column:
“Hedwig is ageless,” says Mitchell. “But I’m almost 47, which means I’m at the gym every day, trying to get my old body back, my paunch down and my stamina up…I haven’t acted since I did the movie,” he adds. “The role is so hard and so challenging that it made me give up acting and concentrate on writing and directing. It’s like Hamlet. Except that Hamlet doesn’t have to sing 15 great songs. In a dress…
For us “Hed-Heads” this is BIG news…I’m guessing more than one Seattleite will be heading to NYC to check this out…and, hopefully it means we will get a Seattle revival of the show with Nick Garrison, our resident channeler of the Divine One…
-Michael Strangeways
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