Hedwig and the Angry Inch
An anatomically incorrect rock odyssey.
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A glam rock musical odyssey that blends theatrical irreverence with genuine existential pain, celebrating self-invention and queer identity through song, humor, and raw vulnerability.
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
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