Awards

• Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Drama/Theater) 2000

Overview

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Trask The script and lyrics to the groundbreaking long-running off-Broadway smash which has just opened to rave reviews in London and is destined to receive the same cult following as 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'. Featuring 'internationally ignored song stylist' Hedwig, a German rock and roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a gruesomely botched sex-change operation. Soon be produced as a major film. Complete with B & W and full-colour colour photographs and with an introduction by John Guare.

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Make Way For A Brand New Cult - The Independent In the US, the show won the Obie Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical. The soundtrack was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Cast Album. With the release of the film next year, Hedwig is hotly tipped to be bigger than Rocky Horror. Riveting and hypnotic - Sunday Times Wickedly funny - Dally Telegraph

Author Information

John Cameron Mitchell's acting work since the early 1980s includes roles in Six Degrees of Separation, The Destiny of Me, Hello Again, The Secret Garden and Big River. He has also adapted and directed Tennessee Williams' Kingdom of the Earth. He is currently working on the film adaptation of Hedwig. Stephen Trask was one of the original members of the notorious Squeeze Box House Band. During his time there he performed with Debbie Harry, Lene Lovich, Hole, Green Day, Joey Ramone, as well as many of New York's most popular drag queens.

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