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**** STARS ON BROADWAY **** Darren Criss Darren Criss will return to Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Tony Award winning Best Musical Revival, for a limited 12-week engagement starting Wednesday, April 29 at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street). Composer and lyricist Stephen Trask said, “The first time I saw Darren I knew he was a game changer. He's that good. Then, when we hung out it was like we were old friends. I'm excited to spend the next few months making the show and getting to know each other better. I’m happy that Hedwig can be Darren’s next stop on his way to world domination.” Book writer John Cameron Mitchell said, “I've got a grin plastered on my face that Darren is joining the brotherhood of Hedwigs. I LOVED him in How to Succeed. His stage presence is electrifying, his rock and roll credentials and comic timing impeccable and I'm thrilled to be working with him to create a brand-new Hedwig!” Criss...

**** THE BEST OF BROADWAY **** Michael C. Hall Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the hit musical revival and winner of four 2014 Tony Awards now playing at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street), is pleased to announce a third donation has been made to Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI) as part of the show’s ongoing partnership with the organization. This donation of $200,000 brings the total raised by Hedwig for HMI to $400,000 in less than one year. Since its first performance on Broadway on March 29, 2014, Hedwig and the Angry Inch has donated a portion of the ticket price from each Broadway ticket sold to HMI, which is the home of Harvey Milk High School, a New York City public transfer school where some of the city's most at-risk youth can learn without the threat of physical violence and emotional harm they faced in a traditional educational environment. The relationship between Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Hetrick-Martin Institute began in 2003 wi...

**** BROADWAYS BEST **** Michael C. Hall Golden Globe and Drama Desk Award winner Michael C. Hall begins performances tonight for his limited engagement in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival. Hedwig will mark Hall’s first musical theatre role in over a decade having previously made acclaimed runs in the Broadway productions of Cabaret and Chicago. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, directed by Michael Mayer, also stars Tony Award winner Lena Hall as Yitzhak. The production has received rave reviews and is winner of four Tony Awards and won Best Musical Revival by the Tony Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. “Internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Robinson (Michael C. Hall) brings her fourth-wall-smashing rock and roll saga to New York to set the record straight about her life, her loves, and the bo...

**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER Story By: G. H. HARDING **** Neil Patrick Harris HARRIS SIZZLES IN HEDWIG --- Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch is just astonishing. We saw it Wednesday and I'm tempted to say it was one of the best things I've ever seen on Broadway. Harris, who won a Tony this year for this performance, is a triple-threat for sure. I even remember him as Doogie Howser, M.D. on TV, and his work in the just-ended How I Met Your Mother was superb. He’s been in Glee, Rent, hosted the Tony Awards, and has appeared in such movies as the forthcoming Gone Girl and A Million Ways To Die in the West. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by an East German transgender singer. The text is by John Cameron Mitchell, and the music and lyrics are by Stephen Trask. The musical premiered in 1998 and has been performed throughout the world in hundreds of stage productions. ...

**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER Story By: G. H. HARDING **** Neil Patrick Harris ANGRY INCH --- Atlantic Records has announced the release of Hedwig And The Angry Inch – Original Broadway Cast Recording - the musical companion to the eight-time Tony-nominated show starring Neil Patrick Harris. The release comes fifteen years after the label released the cast recording for the original production in 1999 and thirteen years following Atlantic’s release of the original motion picture soundtrack for the film incarnation. The album is produced by Hedwig-composer Stephen Trask, Tony Award nominated sound designer; platinum-selling record producer Tim O’Heir, and the production’s music director Justin Craig. Hedwig-composer and producer Stephen Trask said, “Anyone who has spent more than five minutes with me in the last three months knows how excited I am by the new versions of these songs. The talents of Neil and Lena and this amazing f*cking band have made ...