Every few months it’s time to announce a new actor to play the title role in the Broadway production of Hedwig And The Angry Inch, and now it’s happened again – and they haven’t disappointed. We’ve had Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, Michael C. Hall, John Cameron Mitchell and currently Darren Criss, and next up it’s time for the former Mr. Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs.
While Diggs is best known to many for his roles in TV’s Private Practice and Murder In The First, he has a great musical theatre pedigree, having first really been noticed as part of the original cast of Rent (and it’s quite scary that he doesn’t look like he’s aged a day since then) and also appeared in the likes of Chicago (both on stage and in the movie version). However this will be his first Broadway role since briefly appearing in Wicked 12 years ago.
Diggs is the first African-American actor to take on the role of the East German title character, who was left with an angry inch after a botched sex change operation that she had in order to get into the US with her American GI lover. Hedwig then started dating young Tommy Gnosis, who left her behind when he took her music and became a rock star – leaving her understandably bitter (but still very funny), and ready to recount her tale for the audience.
Taye has signed up for a 12 week stint in the show, starting July 22nd.
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