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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is an off-Broadway musical theater play (1998) and film (2001) about a fictional rock and roll band. The text was written by John Cameron Mitchell and the music and lyrics were by Stephen Trask. It has become something of a cult hit. It draws on the life of Wayne; now Jayne County, the original trans gender rocker, and the androgynous glam rock era of David Bowie (who, in fact, produced the original run of the show), as well as influences from Iggy Pop and the later gender bender fashions of the early 1980s. It also draws on Aristophanes' speech in Plato's Symposium, as well as the New York punk culture, which largely grew out of the Squeezebox club in the early-mid nineties, where the show was repeatedly workshopped by Mitchell and Trask before opening at the Jane Street Theater (located in the Hotel Riverview) on February 14, 1998.

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:01:10

Don't you know me,
Kansas City?

:01:12

I'm the new
Berlin Wall.

:01:14

Try and tear me down!

:01:17

I was born
on the other side

:01:21

Of a town
ripped in two

:01:24

I made it over
the Great Divide

:01:27

Now I'm coming
for you

:01:29

Enemies
and adversaries

:01:34

They try
and tear me down

:01:37

You want me, baby,
I dare you

:01:41

Try and tear me down

:02:04

I rose from off
of the doctor's slab

:02:08

Like Lazarus
from the pit

:02:11

Now everyone wants
to take a stab

:02:14

And decorate me

:02:15

Blood, graffiti,
and spit

:02:17

Enemies
and adversaries

:02:21

They try
and tear me down

:02:25

You want me, baby,
I dare you

:02:28

Try and tear me down.

:02:53

On August 13,
1961,

:02:55

a wall
was erected

:02:57

down the middle
of the city of Berlin.

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