Musical

Tearing Down the Origin of Love Myth: A Discussion of Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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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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Always Starting Over

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I am well aware that the title of this blog is a bit of a misnomer.  It’s not even close to being a daily.  Hell, it hasn’t even been a monthly since last October.  It’s sort of been a vestige of my former self– a tribute to a life that I no longer lead, and haven’t led in quite some time.  I stopped writing when I no longer wanted to know myself.  When I no longer wanted to be intimately familiar with my thoughts and feelings– when I realized that I romanticize the people in my life to the extent that the way I view them is not the way that they actually are, but the way I believe they should be– a way that they never intended.

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Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz

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Nearly two weeks ago, I saw the Benedum’s production of Wicked.  Now that I have time, I want to reflect on the importance of the story and its themes.

I am not ashamed to admit that I did not finish this novel.  It’s terribly hard to get through and parts of it are fairly inappropriate.  The musical, however, takes what the novel could not produce and improves it by about ten thousand times.  Not only is the story better, but the music, sets, lighting, and costumes provide a theatrical experience unlike many others.

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