Hedwig and the Angry Inch: the rock and roll and LGBTQ musical is coming to Paris

You are a rock and musicals fan? We have found the perfect show for you, and it is in Paris since September 18th. Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the story of a transgender singer who breaks the fourth wall and shares with the audience the highlights of her tumultuous life, before a spectacular plot twist, like a defiance to her fate.

An award-winning LGBTQ musical comedy

Four Awards, including Best Musical Revival, a film adaptation, shows performed worldwide... Since its creation on Broadway in 1998 by John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch has won everyone's hearts.

Now directed for the French stage by actor and director Dominique Guillo, this rock musical is a true concept.rt-confessions where pop, rock, punk, country, romance, and hard-rock styles collide in the poignant story of Hedwig. Alongside her Croatian singer and husband Yitzhak and her band The Angry Inch, the singer tells us everything about her chaotic journey from adolescence to being on stage. Hedwig, a trans and touching rocker Portrayed by Brice Hillairet, winner of the 2020 Molière award for Best Male Revelation for his role in "La Souricière", Hedwig—born as Hansel—was raised by her mother alone in a neighborhood in East Berlin before the fall of the wall. Adrift and craving freedom, she begins to find solace in Western rock and the promises of another world that come with it. Guided by a love story, she goes to the United States and creates a music group: The Angry Inch. Life hasn't been kind to Hedwig. In turn, she tells us about her romantic mishaps.Or still the obstacles she had to face during her career, with a lot of emotion and intensity, between each of her songs. In short, a show that promises to be moving, but above all rock'n'roll.

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