The Music of "Hedwig"
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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29m
Music critic David Fricke first wrote about HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH after seeing the off-Broadway production at New York’s Jane Street Theatre in 1998. In this program, recorded in February 2019, Fricke talks to composer-lyricist Stephen Trask about Trask’s band Cheater, how the band influenced his work on HEDWIG, his influences, and his approach to creating the soundtrack’s many iconic songs.
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