Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Original Poster Art
Music	Stephen Trask
Lyrics	Stephen Trask
Book	John Cameron Mitchell
Productions	1998 Off-Broadway 2000 West End 2001 Film 2002 Vienna 2004 St. Louis 2004 West End 2005 UK Tour 2010 Brazilian Tour 2014 Broadway 2016 First US Tour 2016 2016 Istanbul
Awards	1998 Obie Award 2014 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical 2014 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by a transgender East German singer, Hedwig Robinson. The book is by John Cameron Mitchell, and the music and lyrics are by Stephen Trask. The story draws on Mitchell's life as the son of a U.S. Army Major General who once commanded the U.S. sector of occupied West Berlin. The character of Hedwig was inspired by a German divorced U.S. Army wife who was a Mitchell family babysitter and moonlighted as a prostitute at her Junction City, Kansas, trailer park home. The music is steeped in the androgynous 1970s glam rock style of David Bowie (who co-produced the Los Angeles production of the show), as well as the work of John Lennon and early punk performers Lou Reed and Iggy Pop.

The musical opened Off-Broadway in 1998, and won the Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. The production ran for two years, and was remounted with various casts by the original creative team in other US cities. In 2000, the musical had a London West End production, and it has been produced throughout the world in hundreds of stage productions.

In 2014, the show saw its first Broadway incarnation, opening that April at the Belasco Theatre and winning the year's Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. The production closed on September 13, 2015. A national tour of the show began at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre on October 2, 2016.