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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Movies in the Garden
Roxy Garden
Fri, Oct 9, 2020 7:00 PM
Roxy Garden
Sat, Oct 10, 2020 7:00 PM
Roxy Garden
Sun, Oct 11, 2020 7:00 PM
Out at the Roxy celebrates the power and Pride of LGBTQ+ people by removing the door from the celluloid closet.
With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” The film tells Hedwig’s story through her music, an eclectic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. A hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll.
Sponsored by Golden Yolk Griddle!
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