[NEohioPAL]Opening Weekend for HEDWIG and The Angry Inch at CPT!

Tue Dec 3 13:11:15 PST 2002

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Ladies and Gentlemen,
whether you like it or not...

HEDWIG
and the Angry Inch
at Cleveland Public Theatre
Text by John Cameron Mitchell

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Trask
Directed by Lester Thomas Shane

What would the holidays in Cleveland be without everyone's favorite
transgendered rocker spreading her holiday song and cheer?

Cleveland Public Theatre welcomes back to town Hedwig and the Angry Inch
opening Friday December 6, 2002 at 8:00pm and running through January 4,
2003.

Also,

Don't forget to join us for a  special New Year’s Eve celebration to mark
the last day of the year on Tuesday, December 31, 2002. Tickets to this
event are $75.00 each and include admission to Hedwig and The Angry Inch and
dinner at the theatre as well as a blow out party filled with surprises
immediately following the show featuring SAFMOD, PurePlex and The Robert
Ocasio Band. Admission to Hedwig and The Angry Inch without dinner and the
party is $30.00. Admission to the after party without the performance or
dinner is $15.00. For tickets and more information please call 216.631.2727
ext. 209.

Tickets are $20.00 for general admission and $18.00 for seniors and students
on Fridays and Saturdays and $18.00 general admission and $15.00 for seniors
and students on Thursdays and Sundays. Limited special box seats are
available for $25.00. For more box office information and reservations
please call 216.631.2727.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the story of transsexual rocker Hedwig
Schmidt, an East German immigrant who submits to a sex change operation in
an attempt to gain American citizenship. The operation is horribly botched
and Hedwig is left with a one-inch strip of undefined genitalia. Living
alone and penniless in a trailer park in Kansas, Hedwig meets Tommy Speck
who she introduces to the world of music, eventually grooming him to become
a major rock star, Tommy Gnosis. Tommy’s fame rises and Hedwig is left alone
once again feeling rejected, spiteful and jealous. Hedwig regains notoriety
when she and Tommy fall victim to a terrible accident that puts them in the
headlines of every major tabloid. We now find Hedwig performing with her
band, The Angry Inch along with her second husband Yitzhak across the river
from the venue where her former lover Tommy Gnosis is playing to a sell out
crowd.

Based loosely on the life of an East German immigrant woman who used to
baby-sit for librettist John Cameron Mitchell as well as the writings of
Plato’s Symposium, Hedwig’s character finds herself lost and alone, lashing
out in rebellion against her physical and emotional mutilation, all the
while motivated by an overpowering desire to find her "other half," whoever
or whatever that might be.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened its official Off-Broadway run on February
14, 1998, at the Jane Street Theatre in the old Hotel Riverview, a relic
near the Hudson River that once sheltered the surviving crew of the Titanic.
The show has been embraced by critics and audiences alike, quickly becoming
something of a cult classic.

Hedwig is directed by CPT veteran Lester Thomas Shane whose earlier works at
Cleveland Public Theatre include Sweet Phoebe, Mortal Coil and Science Gets
Serious. The original Cleveland cast of Hedwig And The Angry Inch returns
including Cleveland native Dan Folino as the tragic Hedwig and Alison Hernan
who serves double duty as Hedwig’s husband/roadie, Yitzhak, as well as
costume designer for Hedwig. The Angry Inch band is led by musical director
Dennis Yurich on guitar and is comprised of four other local gifted
musicians: Ms. Melvis on guitar, Mark Gamiere on bass, Steve Mehlman on
drums and Michael Seevers on piano and keyboards.

Hedwig And The Angry Inch is made possible with the generous support of The
George Fund Foundation, The Ohio Arts Council and the Cleveland
Foundation/BASICS program. Cleveland Public Theatre is one of 14 arts
organizations participating in BASICs; a five-year program of the Cleveland
Foundation. BASICs organizations receive operating support, customized
technical assistance and grants to help build capacity to manage the
necessary risk-taking of their art forms.

Jeff Syroney
Director of Marketing and Public Relations
Cleveland Public Theatre
216.631.2727 ext. 203
jsyroney at cptonline.org
www.cptonline.org

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and dinner=20
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immediately=20
following the show featuring SAFMOD, PurePlex and The Robert Ocasio =
Band.=20
Admission to Hedwig and The Angry Inch without dinner and the =
party is=20
$30.00. Admission to the after party without the performance or dinner =
is=20
$15.00. For tickets and more information please call 216.631.2727 ext. =
209.=20
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sheltered=20
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Mortal=20
Coil and Science Gets Serious. The original =
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And The Angry Inch <SPAN=20
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made possible with the generous support of The George Fund Foundation, =
The Ohio=20
Arts Council and the Cleveland Foundation/BASICS program. Cleveland =
Public=20
Theatre is one of 14 arts organizations participating in BASICs; a =
five-year=20
program of the Cleveland Foundation. BASICs organizations receive =
operating=20
support, customized technical assistance and grants to help build =
capacity to=20
manage the necessary risk-taking of their art =
forms. </DIV>
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Jeff Syroney Director of Marketing and =
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203 jsyroney at cptonline.org www.cptonline.org =
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