Mitchell deserved an Oscar just for the expression at 0:03; it manages to be simultaneously one of the most heartbreaking and hilarious moments I have ever seen.
The guy who wrote this John Mitchell C said that when they first started preforming this like 2 people were in the audience and just slowly over time it grew and grew until the places were packed and now everyone wants to play Hedwig!! When this movie first came out I was like what in gods name is this and I so fell I’m love with the heart of this movie what an amazing group of people they all are stand out is Miriam shor I love her in younger and I always loved her in this amazing !!! All of them are; I always thought the one guitar player was so cute !
I never realized at the end when John goes to kick the lightbulb out it doesn't break so he has to do it again. The funny thing is his little reaction to it lol. I love that they used the take!
I can't even imagine the trauma of having to go through all that, only to be abandoned. Then to add insult to injury, hit with the revelation that it was all for nothing. _For nothing!_
I saw this when it was an Off-Off-Broadway play. It was the most minimal set-up. There were only three speaking actors, a stage, and the band. The story and music held its own.
You know, I'm a straight white male, but a songwriter, liberal, regardless, I think this is the best musical movie I've ever seen. It like picked up where Rocky Horror hinted at, and gave it so much more of everything... I wish I had been involved with it.
this song made me cry the first time I have seen the movie. I remember that i was saying to myself "this is my story" and then, I smiled. Sometimes, life is not bad ;)
This is probably my favorite movie of all time, too. This song is getting me through a hard time right now. I'm playing it at least 2 or 3 times a day. I'm so grateful for it.
It's a story . A powerful story . Like Torch Song Trilogy was a powerful story . Love this work . Beyond my understanding , really . But connecting . Deeply moving .
Saw NPH in this on browadway. One of the best performances I have ever seen. He played the role very human in a way that made the performance intimate, real, and still hilarious in an uncomfortable but still amazing way. He built up the very shattered person that Hedwig is, while still being a rockstar that makes you cheer her on throughout the entirety of the play. Influencing things into the role in small hints that have influence from her past without it being obvious how damaged she is. Well done Neil. Well done.
true friends are friends who walk into your trailer with no warning with their instruments to help you fit into america by wearing wigs and putting on makeup
Hola Senor: The movie and the Off-Broadway original cast soundtrack is my new obsession! I can't stop listening to the CD while in the car. I sing "Wig In A Box" at the top of my lungs!! Have seen the movie several times, too. I did snag two tickets for hubby and I to see NPH as Hedwig in August--and can't wait! Don't want to rush the summer...but...August, arrive already!!! LOL I can't believe I 'missed' this movie when it came out. Apparently it wasn't a 'wide-release'. One of the best musicals ever. Stephen Trask and John Cameron Mitchell were short-changed for Oscar noms!! This should be re-released, ASAP!!!!
I knew of this play but had never seen it or knew what it was about. I came here after reading an article in the NYT about NP Harris taking over the role. what can I say? I FUCKING LOVE IT and look forward to seeing the whole movie.
Anthony Martin if someone did it before him, its not really incorrect to say they are taking over the role. talk about splitting hairs with red pencil.
Saw it on stage in San Francisco - it was amazing. It was in a very seedy theatre and worked perfectly for the show. I knew the movie by heart but still laughed my ass off.
HA! this is not even on of my favorite songs off the movie but just now out of nowhere it popped in my head on some triumphant shit.lol , good stuff. thanks for the upload
I have watched this film a million times, and have never once noticed armpit hair. Can't say I expected that subject to dominate the comments for this song.
My cousin was a handy man and technical/work wizard who watched fox news... I never knew till he died apparently he was a crossdresser with a full closet.
so loving the wig at the end of the video, and definitely one of my favorite scenes/songs out of the whole movie(besides midnight radio of course). It's going to be a Hedwig night! ha
the truth behind his shaving his armpits is not a German thing as anyone who actually watches the movie would know, he went for a sex change and the doctor merely left him with a one inch nub, his angry inch, hence the movie title Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the non shaved armpits is his "I don't give a fuck anymore" since he has been double-crossed by life, god, and fate.. the movie is actually very beautiful give it a watch the final scene where he is a man and his guitarist is woman tells all
Probably because the character he is playing is from Eastern Europe and it isn't an obsession to be clean shaven all the time there. Honestly, that is only found mainly in America.
My mam got me the album for an Irish 'punt', aka a pound, BEFORE we had the Euro. It was about 2001 and a few months later the movie released. She just bought me the cd because of the cover and she thought it was something I'd like. Id no clue about it! But I fell in love! The small indy cinema that showed Hedwig wouldn't give me the poster but after seeing it like 3 times and bringing friends to eat lots of sweets, have a few sneaky drinks and have a laugh I got one... Managed to catch two different productions of the show but I really think the original Off Broadway cast recording is by far the best. So I'm a regular, I guess today you'd call me a 'Cis straight male' .. And I absolutely LOVE the show, the music, the story and I think its really one of the best modern musicals. I really love the Origin Of Love being adapted from Aristophanes' speech in Symposium by Plato (which was basically a big book of stories in honour of Eros, the god of love in Greek mythology) Yeah I'm big, tattooed, been in prison, stabbed and all... I just dig this album and movie so much... I think blokes can be way too self conscious and all...like just enjoy what you enjoy and who cares what someone else thinks! You'll find your Hed 'Head' and I hope when you do you both get to see a show together
@@mccarthy5825 in the place I live in, this topic is somehow taboo, and maybe for the whole world too who has the same faith like me.. that is why I am worried I'll end up with someone from my surrounding who is still strict about what "normal" is.. but what you said is indeed beautiful, I do hope to find my hed 'head' 😆and the see the show together one day.. thanks a lot
@@misslotalotus1500 @Miss Lota Lotus I'm very sorry to hear that you aren't in a place that supports you. My main problem with organised religion is that it is fallible because its made by man. And it's made by men in a society that is very very different to what we are now. My mam was a single mother in 80s Ireland and it was very difficult for her. When I was a few hours old a nun, a woman who supposedly gave her life to god, tried to get my mam to sign me off. She only referred to me, a tiny newborn, as 'the bastard' or 'your bastard child'... Personally I believe in kindness and love more than any deity. I think that we all should accept each other and celebrate our different lives. If someone doesn't like it then ok, just don't try and force that belief on other people. My youngest sister is gay and I remember holding her as a newborn. If anyone tried to hurt her or upset her by telling her there's something wrong with her or whatever, I would happily go to jail for what I'd do to them. I think if the world focuses on what makes us alike, more than what makes us different than each other then we would be better off. Personally I don't think there's any gods or anything, but if there was... Then I can't, for a second imagine that the god would make people feel differently and want different things only to punish them for it. The god would love us all equally. I wish you loads of ♥ ☀ ✌️ 🌈 ☺ and I think you are very, very brave, very cool, and have a lot more strength in you than you might realise. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tKjZuykKY1I.html Here's a song you might enjoy! Keep your head up and never let them get you down! Always have me to talk to if you ever need
My guess would be it's a nod to Hedwig's origins. Since Hedwig was born in East Germany and came to America before the fall of the Berlin Wall, perhaps his mom didn't shave. Therefore, he didn't think it necessary for a woman to do that.
I often teach about the fall of the Berlin Wall. The broadcast "The Germans are a patient people, and good things come to those who wait" sounds like something famous from 1989. But I haven't been able to find any evidence that it exists. Maybe John Cameron Mitchell just made it up for "Hedwig"? At any rate, I wish I had an excuse to play this song in class, in addition to the historical broadcasts from November 9, 1989.
I think the myth came from WW2, back then shaving or being able to wash with real soap (and not some cheap ersatz) was quite difficult in occupied regions, so when the US soldiers landed and marched through Europe, they saw tired, hungry people, with old torned clothes, not able to bath often (let alone shave). It was also found that the generation that lived through WW2 didn't shaved much, while the next one (and the next one even more) rapidly adopted "US" shaving habits.
