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Published on January 31st, 2017 | by Landon Buford

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AT&T Performing Arts Center Presents The 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival Hedwig & The Angry Inch

 

The Dallas premiere of the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, is delighted to announce a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour.  The lottery begins Tuesday, February 7, 2017, at the Winspear Opera House in the downtown Dallas Arts District and plays a limited single-week engagement through Sunday, February 12, 2017.

In Dallas, the production will bear a pre-show lottery at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, Winspear Opera House Center Café, 2353 Flora Street, making a limited number of tickets available at $24 apiece for each performance.

Entries will be accepted at the box office beginning one and a half hours prior to each performance; each person will print their name and the number of tickets (1 or 2) they wish to purchase on the scorecard that is provided.
One hour before curtain, names will be drawn at random for a limited number of tickets priced at $24 apiece. Only one entrance is allowed per person. Cards are checked for duplication prior to the draft. The Winners must be present at the time of the drawing and show valid ID to purchase tags. Limit one entry per person per performance and two tickets per winner per performance. Tickets are sold subject to availability.
Major credit cards and cash accepted.

Brilliantly innovative, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny, Hedwig and the Angry Inch are the landmarks musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask that is “groundbreaking and undoubtedly ahead of its fourth dimension” (Entertainment Weekly). This genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing musical sensation, with a passing score and electrifying performances, tells the chronicle of one of the unique characters to ever hit the stage. “Internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Robinson is out to set the record straight about her life, her love, and the screwed up operation that left her with that “angry inch.”
Directed by Tony Award-winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) and winner of four 2014 Tony Awards, Hedwig and the Angry Inch played to record-breaking sell-out crowds on Broadway and promises to occupy North America by storm with what Time Magazine proclaims is “the most exciting rock score written for the theatre since, oh, ever!

The members of Hedwig’s band “The Angry Inch” — aka “Tits of Clay” – will be music director Justin Craig (guitar and keyboards), Matt Duncan (bass), Tim Mislock (guitar), and Peter Yanowitz (drums), all of whom developed their roles on Broadway.

David Binder, who first produced Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 1997, produced the musical on Broadway with Jayne Baron Sherman, Barbara Whitman, Latitude Link, Patrick Catullo, Raise The Roof, Paula Marie Black, Colin Callender, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Martian Entertainment, Stacey Mindich, Eric Schnall, and The Shubert Organization. 101 Productions, Ltd were the executive producers. The record-breaking production ran for over 500 performances at the Belasco Theatre.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch were originally produced Off-Off-Broadway at Westbeth and then, under The charge on of Peter Askin, ran over two years at the Jane Street Theatre beginning in February 1998.
The musical won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical and both John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask won Obies in 2001. It won a 1998 New York Magazine Award and Entertainment Weekly’s “Soundtrack of the Year” Award. Time Magazine named Hedwig the Top Musical of 1998.

The motion picture of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, directed by John Cameron Mitchell, won the Audience Award and Best Director Awards at Sundance. Mitchell won the Best New Director of the National Board of Review, the Gotham Awards, and the LA Critics Society. Stage productions played for many years in Japan and in 2008, Korea hosted a popular televised reality show about the search for a new star to play Hedwig.
The creative team for Hedwig and The Angry Inch features Emmy Award nominee Spencer Liff (musical staging), Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Julian Crouch (scenic design), Tony Award and two-time Oscar nominee Arianne Phillips (costume design), four-time Tony Award winner Kevin Adams (lighting design), Mike Potter (hair and makeup design), Tony Award nominee and platinum-selling record producer Tim O’Heir (sound design), Benjamin Pearcy for 59 Productions (projection design), John Bair/Phosphene (animation), James Calleri (casting), Tony and Grammy Award nominee Ethan Popp (music supervisor & music coordinator), Justin Craig (music director), Stephen Gabis (dialect coach) and Johanna McKeon (associate director).
The Grammy-nominated Original Broadway Cast Album for Hedwig and the Angry Inch is available from Atlantic Records.

 

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