Stephen Trask
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Stephen Trask, John Cameron Mitchell
The musical Rent is said to have revived the rock musical in the 1990s, but it’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch that could revive the genre’s movie fortunes in the new millennium. Adapted and directed from Stephen Trask’s music and lyrics by John Cameron Mitchell, who also reprises the lead role of Hedwig, the flamboyantly unlucky victim of a botched sex-change operation, this is as good as a rock musical gets. The soundtrack follows the cast album pretty faithfully, except that the whole thing somehow feels turbocharged. Fast numbers like “Angry…Find it:
