Mitchell deserved an Oscar just for the expression at 0:03; it manages to be simultaneously one of the most heartbreaking and hilarious moments I have ever seen.
The guy who wrote this John Mitchell C said that when they first started preforming this like 2 people were in the audience and just slowly over time it grew and grew until the places were packed and now everyone wants to play Hedwig!! When this movie first came out I was like what in gods name is this and I so fell I’m love with the heart of this movie what an amazing group of people they all are stand out is Miriam shor I love her in younger and I always loved her in this amazing !!! All of them are; I always thought the one guitar player was so cute !
I never realized at the end when John goes to kick the lightbulb out it doesn't break so he has to do it again. The funny thing is his little reaction to it lol. I love that they used the take!
You know, I'm a straight white male, but a songwriter, liberal, regardless, I think this is the best musical movie I've ever seen. It like picked up where Rocky Horror hinted at, and gave it so much more of everything... I wish I had been involved with it.
I can't even imagine the trauma of having to go through all that, only to be abandoned. Then to add insult to injury, hit with the revelation that it was all for nothing. _For nothing!_
I saw this when it was an Off-Off-Broadway play. It was the most minimal set-up. There were only three speaking actors, a stage, and the band. The story and music held its own.
this song made me cry the first time I have seen the movie. I remember that i was saying to myself "this is my story" and then, I smiled. Sometimes, life is not bad ;)
This is probably my favorite movie of all time, too. This song is getting me through a hard time right now. I'm playing it at least 2 or 3 times a day. I'm so grateful for it.
Saw NPH in this on browadway. One of the best performances I have ever seen. He played the role very human in a way that made the performance intimate, real, and still hilarious in an uncomfortable but still amazing way. He built up the very shattered person that Hedwig is, while still being a rockstar that makes you cheer her on throughout the entirety of the play. Influencing things into the role in small hints that have influence from her past without it being obvious how damaged she is. Well done Neil. Well done.
It's a story . A powerful story . Like Torch Song Trilogy was a powerful story . Love this work . Beyond my understanding , really . But connecting . Deeply moving .
Hola Senor: The movie and the Off-Broadway original cast soundtrack is my new obsession! I can't stop listening to the CD while in the car. I sing "Wig In A Box" at the top of my lungs!! Have seen the movie several times, too. I did snag two tickets for hubby and I to see NPH as Hedwig in August--and can't wait! Don't want to rush the summer...but...August, arrive already!!! LOL I can't believe I 'missed' this movie when it came out. Apparently it wasn't a 'wide-release'. One of the best musicals ever. Stephen Trask and John Cameron Mitchell were short-changed for Oscar noms!! This should be re-released, ASAP!!!!
I knew of this play but had never seen it or knew what it was about. I came here after reading an article in the NYT about NP Harris taking over the role. what can I say? I FUCKING LOVE IT and look forward to seeing the whole movie.
Anthony Martin if someone did it before him, its not really incorrect to say they are taking over the role. talk about splitting hairs with red pencil.
HA! this is not even on of my favorite songs off the movie but just now out of nowhere it popped in my head on some triumphant shit.lol , good stuff. thanks for the upload
true friends are friends who walk into your trailer with no warning with their instruments to help you fit into america by wearing wigs and putting on makeup
Saw it on stage in San Francisco - it was amazing. It was in a very seedy theatre and worked perfectly for the show. I knew the movie by heart but still laughed my ass off.
so loving the wig at the end of the video, and definitely one of my favorite scenes/songs out of the whole movie(besides midnight radio of course). It's going to be a Hedwig night! ha
I have watched this film a million times, and have never once noticed armpit hair. Can't say I expected that subject to dominate the comments for this song.
My cousin was a handy man and technical/work wizard who watched fox news... I never knew till he died apparently he was a crossdresser with a full closet.
My mam got me the album for an Irish 'punt', aka a pound, BEFORE we had the Euro. It was about 2001 and a few months later the movie released. She just bought me the cd because of the cover and she thought it was something I'd like. Id no clue about it! But I fell in love! The small indy cinema that showed Hedwig wouldn't give me the poster but after seeing it like 3 times and bringing friends to eat lots of sweets, have a few sneaky drinks and have a laugh I got one... Managed to catch two different productions of the show but I really think the original Off Broadway cast recording is by far the best. So I'm a regular, I guess today you'd call me a 'Cis straight male' .. And I absolutely LOVE the show, the music, the story and I think its really one of the best modern musicals. I really love the Origin Of Love being adapted from Aristophanes' speech in Symposium by Plato (which was basically a big book of stories in honour of Eros, the god of love in Greek mythology) Yeah I'm big, tattooed, been in prison, stabbed and all... I just dig this album and movie so much... I think blokes can be way too self conscious and all...like just enjoy what you enjoy and who cares what someone else thinks! You'll find your Hed 'Head' and I hope when you do you both get to see a show together
@@mccarthy5825 in the place I live in, this topic is somehow taboo, and maybe for the whole world too who has the same faith like me.. that is why I am worried I'll end up with someone from my surrounding who is still strict about what "normal" is.. but what you said is indeed beautiful, I do hope to find my hed 'head' 😆and the see the show together one day.. thanks a lot
@@misslotalotus1500 @Miss Lota Lotus I'm very sorry to hear that you aren't in a place that supports you. My main problem with organised religion is that it is fallible because its made by man. And it's made by men in a society that is very very different to what we are now. My mam was a single mother in 80s Ireland and it was very difficult for her. When I was a few hours old a nun, a woman who supposedly gave her life to god, tried to get my mam to sign me off. She only referred to me, a tiny newborn, as 'the bastard' or 'your bastard child'... Personally I believe in kindness and love more than any deity. I think that we all should accept each other and celebrate our different lives. If someone doesn't like it then ok, just don't try and force that belief on other people. My youngest sister is gay and I remember holding her as a newborn. If anyone tried to hurt her or upset her by telling her there's something wrong with her or whatever, I would happily go to jail for what I'd do to them. I think if the world focuses on what makes us alike, more than what makes us different than each other then we would be better off. Personally I don't think there's any gods or anything, but if there was... Then I can't, for a second imagine that the god would make people feel differently and want different things only to punish them for it. The god would love us all equally. I wish you loads of ♥ ☀ ✌️ 🌈 ☺ and I think you are very, very brave, very cool, and have a lot more strength in you than you might realise. ua-cam.com/video/tKjZuykKY1I/v-deo.html Here's a song you might enjoy! Keep your head up and never let them get you down! Always have me to talk to if you ever need
Great. Man. What can I say? Absolutely: amazing. Thanks so much for taking the time to describe the experience. Did you ever wrote anything about it? If you did I'd like to read. Kisses, Carla.-
the truth behind his shaving his armpits is not a German thing as anyone who actually watches the movie would know, he went for a sex change and the doctor merely left him with a one inch nub, his angry inch, hence the movie title Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the non shaved armpits is his "I don't give a fuck anymore" since he has been double-crossed by life, god, and fate.. the movie is actually very beautiful give it a watch the final scene where he is a man and his guitarist is woman tells all
I often teach about the fall of the Berlin Wall. The broadcast "The Germans are a patient people, and good things come to those who wait" sounds like something famous from 1989. But I haven't been able to find any evidence that it exists. Maybe John Cameron Mitchell just made it up for "Hedwig"? At any rate, I wish I had an excuse to play this song in class, in addition to the historical broadcasts from November 9, 1989.
Wow! Lucky you! Did you get to record anything? If I had had the chance to be there I guess I would had been too hypnotized to do anything. :p I'm happy that you went. I bet it was a lifetime experience. I've seen the documentary that comes with the DVD. That's the closest I've been to the off-Broadway show and it looks amazing.
Wait, what was the last part? Victor/Victoria revelation? Explain! Wow, you were part of history. The Jane Street Theater is so beautiful. They chose the location specially for the show. I bet it must had been magical to be among the crowd. Lucky bastard! I'm not envious, I'm just happy to be corresponding with someone who actually was there. =)
I think the myth came from WW2, back then shaving or being able to wash with real soap (and not some cheap ersatz) was quite difficult in occupied regions, so when the US soldiers landed and marched through Europe, they saw tired, hungry people, with old torned clothes, not able to bath often (let alone shave). It was also found that the generation that lived through WW2 didn't shaved much, while the next one (and the next one even more) rapidly adopted "US" shaving habits.
My guess would be it's a nod to Hedwig's origins. Since Hedwig was born in East Germany and came to America before the fall of the Berlin Wall, perhaps his mom didn't shave. Therefore, he didn't think it necessary for a woman to do that.
![Wig In A Box (뮤지컬 ＜헤드윅＞ 中) - 유연석 [더 시즌즈-이효리의 레드카펫] | KBS 240322 방송](/img/n.gif)
Mitchell deserved an Oscar just for the expression at 0:03; it manages to be simultaneously one of the most heartbreaking and hilarious moments I have ever seen.
just saw this video and you're spot on...I dont' know if I'll cry or laugh ...
That moment nearly broke me the first time I watch it
The role of Hedwig just simply belongs to John no matter how many great actors can play her.
chills every time!!!! best musical. ever. ever. ever.
Do you know where can I watch the movie
PURE GENIUS!
One of the most underrated movies and song collections of all time!
It isn't underrated!
I think it’s seriously underrated by the general public. I second it! PURE GENIUS!
Queen Boudicca
More like “underappreciated”, it is hold on high regards and praise, but just by the few people that have watched it.
The origin of love is an amazing song that deserves to be heard by everyone with ears
The guy who wrote this John Mitchell C said that when they first started preforming this like 2 people were in the audience and just slowly over time it grew and grew until the places were packed and now everyone wants to play Hedwig!! When this movie first came out I was like what in gods name is this and I so fell I’m love with the heart of this movie what an amazing group of people they all are stand out is Miriam shor I love her in younger and I always loved her in this amazing !!! All of them are; I always thought the one guitar player was so cute !
I'm going to sing that song at my university's talent contest. Wish me a good luck 🙂😌
How did it go ?
Tell us how it went, want to know so bad.
And?????? :)
We need to know how it went 😩
But really, how did it go??
I never realized at the end when John goes to kick the lightbulb out it doesn't break so he has to do it again. The funny thing is his little reaction to it lol. I love that they used the take!
Omg I just realized that!!! I love his reaction after
Right?? I love that so much 😂
When I'm feeling sad, I listen to this song and it brings me up a bit.
Me too
Just saw him preform this last night in LA it absolutely magical
What?! Where?! HOW?!
😮@@fletchertube908
this movie made me cry
You know, I'm a straight white male, but a songwriter, liberal, regardless, I think this is the best musical movie I've ever seen. It like picked up where Rocky Horror hinted at, and gave it so much more of everything... I wish I had been involved with it.
oh my, how can you write and perform anything better than this?
I can't even imagine the trauma of having to go through all that, only to be abandoned. Then to add insult to injury, hit with the revelation that it was all for nothing. _For nothing!_
Literally the same day the wall went down too 😭 Poor Hedwig
I’m so glad this performance was captured on film.
This part just broke my heart the first time I saw this
"Suddenly I'm Miss beehive 1963"
Until I wake up
And I turn back to myself
@@shannonhughes203 mom spaghetti
@@duynguyeninh4595 Damn you,you broke the chain!😂
I saw this when it was an Off-Off-Broadway play. It was the most minimal set-up. There were only three speaking actors, a stage, and the band. The story and music held its own.
I saw that too. Fabulous show!
love that voice!
this song made me cry the first time I have seen the movie.
I remember that i was saying to myself "this is my story" and then, I smiled.
Sometimes, life is not bad ;)
Best movie I've ever watched, I can't count how many times I've watched it. Funniest thing of this part is the little tiny drum set
This is probably my favorite movie of all time, too. This song is getting me through a hard time right now. I'm playing it at least 2 or 3 times a day. I'm so grateful for it.
The biggest piece of queer music I've ever heard loud and proud. I want to tattoo this musical in my memory frame by frame
That waver on 'midnight checkout queen' 💔 so good!
It's such a cheerful and sad song
Hoy tengo 26 años y aún recuerdo lo agradecido que estoy a mi profe de 6° curso por educarme con este peliculón. Tengo que volver a verla
Every time I hear this I go WOW tucking WOW.
Saw NPH in this on browadway. One of the best performances I have ever seen. He played the role very human in a way that made the performance intimate, real, and still hilarious in an uncomfortable but still amazing way. He built up the very shattered person that Hedwig is, while still being a rockstar that makes you cheer her on throughout the entirety of the play. Influencing things into the role in small hints that have influence from her past without it being obvious how damaged she is. Well done Neil. Well done.
just discovered this movie and I love it so much
I love that he did not fail to see the funny side of it...like kevin escorpien said below his expression at 0:03 is priceless...
AWESOME movie & music...Stephen Trask and John Cameron Mitchell are brilliant....
It's a story . A powerful story . Like Torch Song Trilogy was a powerful story . Love this work . Beyond my understanding , really . But connecting . Deeply moving .
The fog and perfect highlighting of the high tension power lines. Master class.
I just saw this movie for the first time recently and this song has never left my head since
My Dad when I was really young he didn't like me even watching this movie at all and at all but I watch it anyways
Royal Park Bom don’t worry my dad gave up tryin to mold me long time ago, quite Bi and very proud n out now he just accepts haha
This video was one of my trans influences
It's such a happy, rockin' tune... yet it just leaves this huge hole in your heart.
Love this movie it's like rocky horror picture show meets pink Floyd the wall
Lovely song
Brings a tear to my eye. Ahhhhhh.... what a tune.
Hola Senor: The movie and the Off-Broadway original cast soundtrack is my new obsession! I can't stop listening to the CD while in the car. I sing "Wig In A Box" at the top of my lungs!! Have seen the movie several times, too. I did snag two tickets for hubby and I to see NPH as Hedwig in August--and can't wait! Don't want to rush the summer...but...August, arrive already!!! LOL I can't believe I 'missed' this movie when it came out. Apparently it wasn't a 'wide-release'. One of the best musicals ever. Stephen Trask and John Cameron Mitchell were short-changed for Oscar noms!! This should be re-released, ASAP!!!!
Greatest musical everrrr!! I actually met JCM and he was surprised I knew who he was.
bruh who's listening to this in 2020?
Watched this at a library event a couple nights ago. At the "sing along" portion, a few of the audience members and I joined in the chorus.
My favorite scene! Thank you for uploading it!
Good song!!!
I knew of this play but had never seen it or knew what it was about. I came here after reading an article in the NYT about NP Harris taking over the role.
what can I say? I FUCKING LOVE IT and look forward to seeing the whole movie.
Anthony Martin if someone did it before him, its not really incorrect to say they are taking over the role. talk about splitting hairs with red pencil.
My favorite track of the whole film!! Love it!! 👠👠💄💋👀🎤👱🎶🎶🎶🎸
Obsessed with this being uploaded on 08/08/08. My birthday is August 8!
HA! this is not even on of my favorite songs off the movie but just now out of nowhere it popped in my head on some triumphant shit.lol , good stuff. thanks for the upload
2:32 how they just waltz in to her trailer tho..
true friends are friends who walk into your trailer with no warning with their instruments to help you fit into america by wearing wigs and putting on makeup
@@marigoldmarlowe Best comment ever.
Ok sandman genius. Glad to see ya back.
I'm a heterosexual male. And I friggin' loved this movie!
Me too...It's GREAT
As you should
Musicals are for eveyone : )
My nominee for best cinematic bust out number ever
그리운 노래 덕분에 잘 듣고 가요~~
Saw it on stage in San Francisco - it was amazing. It was in a very seedy theatre and worked perfectly for the show. I knew the movie by heart but still laughed my ass off.
i love this movie so much!!!!
I'm a singer and this is one of my mantras: "This is the best way that I've found to be the best you've ever seen!"
this song is so good!
Just watched this on TV and had to listen to this song again!
Amo este tema, esta película, estas interpretaciones.
Y con mi hija Guillermina bailamos y saltamos cantando este tema
so loving the wig at the end of the video, and definitely one of my favorite scenes/songs out of the whole movie(besides midnight radio of course). It's going to be a Hedwig night! ha
Another one of my favorite songs
I have watched this film a million times, and have never once noticed armpit hair. Can't say I expected that subject to dominate the comments for this song.
thank you John Cameron Mitchell for coming to Ann Arbor last night
I thought the UK had the Quirky/sexy Rock N Roll Musical crown forever with Rocky Horror but than here comes Hedwig
Love Love Love
This song is everything.
Love this song!!!
You're the Polk High for Al Bundy of songs/videos...For, I shall never let you go...;)
Makes me want to wear my wig today
Is there a ten hour vid of this?
play this on my funeral don't make me die in disappointment
song always makes me cry
just great music !!
My cousin was a handy man and technical/work wizard who watched fox news... I never knew till he died apparently he was a crossdresser with a full closet.
amazing movie ..
Do you mean that you didn't know Shor was a girl until the end of the show? Great makeup! :p
Didn't Shor originate the role Off-Broadway?
I wish my future husband will understand how much I love this movie.. and maybe sing along with me?
My mam got me the album for an Irish 'punt', aka a pound, BEFORE we had the Euro. It was about 2001 and a few months later the movie released. She just bought me the cd because of the cover and she thought it was something I'd like.
Id no clue about it! But I fell in love! The small indy cinema that showed Hedwig wouldn't give me the poster but after seeing it like 3 times and bringing friends to eat lots of sweets, have a few sneaky drinks and have a laugh I got one...
Managed to catch two different productions of the show but I really think the original Off Broadway cast recording is by far the best.
So I'm a regular, I guess today you'd call me a 'Cis straight male' .. And I absolutely LOVE the show, the music, the story and I think its really one of the best modern musicals. I really love the Origin Of Love being adapted from Aristophanes' speech in Symposium by Plato (which was basically a big book of stories in honour of Eros, the god of love in Greek mythology)
Yeah I'm big, tattooed, been in prison, stabbed and all... I just dig this album and movie so much... I think blokes can be way too self conscious and all...like just enjoy what you enjoy and who cares what someone else thinks!
You'll find your Hed 'Head' and I hope when you do you both get to see a show together
@@mccarthy5825 in the place I live in, this topic is somehow taboo, and maybe for the whole world too who has the same faith like me.. that is why I am worried I'll end up with someone from my surrounding who is still strict about what "normal" is.. but what you said is indeed beautiful, I do hope to find my hed 'head' 😆and the see the show together one day.. thanks a lot
@@misslotalotus1500 @Miss Lota Lotus I'm very sorry to hear that you aren't in a place that supports you. My main problem with organised religion is that it is fallible because its made by man. And it's made by men in a society that is very very different to what we are now. My mam was a single mother in 80s Ireland and it was very difficult for her. When I was a few hours old a nun, a woman who supposedly gave her life to god, tried to get my mam to sign me off. She only referred to me, a tiny newborn, as 'the bastard' or 'your bastard child'... Personally I believe in kindness and love more than any deity. I think that we all should accept each other and celebrate our different lives. If someone doesn't like it then ok, just don't try and force that belief on other people.
My youngest sister is gay and I remember holding her as a newborn. If anyone tried to hurt her or upset her by telling her there's something wrong with her or whatever, I would happily go to jail for what I'd do to them. I think if the world focuses on what makes us alike, more than what makes us different than each other then we would be better off.
Personally I don't think there's any gods or anything, but if there was... Then I can't, for a second imagine that the god would make people feel differently and want different things only to punish them for it. The god would love us all equally.
I wish you loads of ♥ ☀ ✌️ 🌈 ☺ and I think you are very, very brave, very cool, and have a lot more strength in you than you might realise.
ua-cam.com/video/tKjZuykKY1I/v-deo.html
Here's a song you might enjoy!
Keep your head up and never let them get you down!
Always have me to talk to if you ever need
that one upvote was mine darling. love you loads
during the time hedwig is set this song is sung during the time the berlin wall was still up , and just after that so yes tape deck
Yes!
love you
@aspectaleatoire So good I had to go see it twice....
And more love.
사랑해요 존 카메론 미첼~♡
This needs a mash up with Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
I love it that there are no dislikes ! :) Never saw that hedweig breaks a light xD
Great.
Man.
What can I say?
Absolutely: amazing.
Thanks so much for taking the time to describe the experience. Did you ever wrote anything about it? If you did I'd like to read.
Kisses,
Carla.-
the truth behind his shaving his armpits is not a German thing as anyone who actually watches the movie would know, he went for a sex change and the doctor merely left him with a one inch nub, his angry inch, hence the movie title Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the non shaved armpits is his "I don't give a fuck anymore" since he has been double-crossed by life, god, and fate.. the movie is actually very beautiful give it a watch the final scene where he is a man and his guitarist is woman tells all
I often teach about the fall of the Berlin Wall. The broadcast "The Germans are a patient people, and good things come to those who wait" sounds like something famous from 1989. But I haven't been able to find any evidence that it exists. Maybe John Cameron Mitchell just made it up for "Hedwig"?
At any rate, I wish I had an excuse to play this song in class, in addition to the historical broadcasts from November 9, 1989.
Huh, never knew Rachel Griffiths could sing!
Wow!
Lucky you!
Did you get to record anything?
If I had had the chance to be there I guess I would had been too hypnotized to do anything. :p
I'm happy that you went. I bet it was a lifetime experience. I've seen the documentary that comes with the DVD. That's the closest I've been to the off-Broadway show and it looks amazing.
je t'aime :)
Hedwig FTW!!
love
Wait, what was the last part? Victor/Victoria revelation? Explain!
Wow, you were part of history. The Jane Street Theater is so beautiful. They chose the location specially for the show. I bet it must had been magical to be among the crowd.
Lucky bastard! I'm not envious, I'm just happy to be corresponding with someone who actually was there. =)
I think the myth came from WW2, back then shaving or being able to wash with real soap (and not some cheap ersatz) was quite difficult in occupied regions, so when the US soldiers landed and marched through Europe, they saw tired, hungry people, with old torned clothes, not able to bath often (let alone shave).
It was also found that the generation that lived through WW2 didn't shaved much, while the next one (and the next one even more) rapidly adopted "US" shaving habits.
love it ! did he say "tape deck"
인생 띵곡.. 해드윅에 다 있다
Yes.
Love it. Not gay. Don’t Crossdress (although) I don’t judge at all. It’s just fantastic
i dont nd 2 say a thing...i bgettin you by nbby my irishman who took on the lizard king🎉❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My guess would be it's a nod to Hedwig's origins. Since Hedwig was born in East Germany and came to America before the fall of the Berlin Wall, perhaps his mom didn't shave. Therefore, he didn't think it necessary for a woman to do that.
he totally looks like juliette lewis!!!
I'd sing all these songs at a coffee house, and i don't give two fucks about the stares it'd get me.