I can’t believe it was already a week ago that Claire and I returned to my favorite Wicked Little Town to see Darren Criss perform as the titular role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. This run on Broadway has been of particular importance to me- not least because it has given me the opportunity to meet Darren not once, but twice, and to have an extremely memorable interaction with him at that.
More importantly, if there is anything more important than that (debatable), I was introduced to this musical for the first time. I’m generally a more traditional theater person. I was raised in the barricade and the woods with the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim. So when I heard the announcement that one half of my favorite fictional couple would be portraying this groundbreaking role that I had only ever heard of in passing, I knew two things: 1. I had to see it and 2. I had to figure out what this musical was actually about.
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