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Publisher:
Abrams
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch, follows the journey of "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, victim of a botched sex-change operation, as dazzlingly recounted by Hedwig (née Hansel) herself in the form of a lounge act, backed by the rockband The Angry Inch, and transported to the Belasco Theatre "for one night only" and taking over the set for Hurt Locker: The Musical. This new edition contains the updated book and lyrics from the smash...
Publisher:
Hal Leonard
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
Description:
The title character of this darkly comic off-Broadway hit, the winner of two Obie Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award, is transsexual singer Hedwig, and the Angry Inch refers both to her back-up rock band, and her botched sex change operation. Our songbook features standard piano/vocal arrangements of 11 great songs, ranging from rocking to touching. Includes: Angry Inch * Exquisite Corpse * Hedwig's Lament * The Long Grift * Midnight Radio *...
Author:
Publisher:
Happyland
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Miriam Shor is an award-winning actress whose star began to shine on stage in 1998 when she played Yitzak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Shor's impressive resume covers stage (The Wild Party, Scarcity), TV (The Americans, The Good Wife) and movies (Bedazzled, Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Here, she talks growing up in America and Italy, her early acting aspirations through school, and the successes and failures of being an actress.
14. Heavy Rotation
Author:
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
Colm TóibÃn on Joni Mitchell - James Wood on The Who - Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush - Daniel Handler on Eurythmics - Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders - Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the soundtracks of their lives. In Heavy Rotation, twenty of our most acclaimed contemporary writers pay homage to the record albums that inspired them. Benjamin Kunkel remembers how the Smiths' Queen Is Dead transformed him into an adolescent...
Author:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
Raymond Knapp is professor of musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity (Princeton), winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He has also published books on Brahms and Mahler. The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact...
Publisher:
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date:
2003
Language:
English
Description:
The fist-pumping Prey for Rock & Roll stars the electrifying Gina Gershon as Jacki, a rocker who worries that she may never make it big. Along with bandmates played by Drea de Matteo (The Sopranos), Lori Petty (A League of Their Own), and Shelly Cole (Gilmore Girls), she has spent years of struggle playing gigs up and down the Sunset Strip. But when that break finally arrives, their lives are turned upside down. The feature directing debut of veteran...