Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a story about finding who you are again, and again. Hedwig Schmidt is hurt on some level and is showing her anger with her audience in the number TEAR ME DOWN. What is with Yitzhak? What is his back story to Hedwig? How does Yitzak compare with Hedwig? Pain? Passions? Lust? Why does Yitzak try to take fame at the end of this number?
In the Origin of Love; Hedwig explains reason. The story about how we once lost ourselves and regained it in an instant. Does this story portray Hedwig/Hansels’ childhood? Why did her mother tell it constantly? Hitler? Absolute power corrupts…?
Hansel Schmidt meets US Sergeant Luther Robinson. With developing his first passion for power over a bag of gummy bears, Hedwig falls in love with this us American soldier. Luther wants to marry hansel, so hansel undergoes a sex operation that is botched and then WAM!!! Hedwig is born and in Junction City, Kansas with a unreasonable once inch penis. During the musical number WIG IN A BOX, Hedwig Schmidt is born again with the band…angry inch. But when exactly does the angry inch meet up with Hedwig? In this part of the show…we can see depression among hedwig.
After going through troubles with babysitting jobs and jobs she calls “blow”, Hedwig writes her first number called WICKED LITTLE TOWN. Which is meant to be sung by a boy. Who is she singing to? Mother? Herself? LONG GRIFT, is a completative song sung by Yithak. What did Hedwig do? Why is Yitzak another dallor for hedwig? Was hedwig cheating on yitzak or is this song really hedwig singing to tommy gnosis? So yitzak spits in hedwigs’ face. Causing a mental reaction for Hedwig. Remembering all that has happened in her life. Where she is from? what she is. “Why did I give my piece to tommy and not to me?
EQUISETTE CORPSE, is the complete and utter death of Hedwig Schmidt and rebirth of Hansel Schmidt. Was tommy gnosis just hedwig’s inner child, or vice versa? Is Tommy Gnosis a real person? We see Hedwig in ruin, a montage, all sewn up, chaos, disaster, EXPLOSION!!!!!! This is a transformation and it is beautiful…ripping off all her clothes and revealing what looks like Tommy Gnosis and a segue into a reprise of WICKED LITTLE TOWN.
Hansel has realized what he had created and also noticed it was what he wanted him to be. In return, Hansel is starting to let go of hedwig and has stopped controlling everyone around. In the finale, Hansel is whole, full of love and giveness. Complete soul, heart and brain. Hansel is shining.
Brian Michael Peterson is a new addition to the Seattle neighborhood. He is a native of Eugene, Oregon. With nearly 10 years of theatre experience as a stage manager, director and producer; Brian Michael brings his love for the theatre in Seattle, with a focus on gay and lesbian dramas and comedies.
uh, where is this being produced in Seattle? I wasn’t aware of any current local productions. This ‘review’ doesn’t make any sense.
Brian wanted to kick off things on the Gay Blog with a review of Hedwig. He is director, writer and producer of theatre currently in Portland but soon will be relocating to Seattle. In 2007, Brian was stage manager for a production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH at Lord Leebrick Theatre Company in Eugene, Oregon. Right now Hedwig is not in production, however, there will be a revival in the next year that will tour in Seattle, Portland and Eugene, Oregon.
I apologize for the confusion. My intentions were not to excite people to believe that there was a current production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Again, my apologies go to the readers of Gay Seattle Blogspot.
~Brian Michael