Dexter's Michael C. Hall Epic Performance of 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' During Benefit Concert In NYC, Watch Here (VIDEO)
"Dexter" star Michael C. Hall began his run as the lead on the Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch back in October, same role Neil Patrick Harris held, and it has been a hit. Footage surfaced from earlier this month as Hall and the band performed at a benefit concert in New York City. He didn't have his full make-up and wardrobe on, but he embodied a true rocker on stage. You can check out the video of his performance above.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by an East German transgender singer. The book is by John Cameron Mitchell, and the music and lyrics are by Stephen Trask. The story draws on Mitchell's life as the son of a U.S. Army Major General who once commanded the U.S. sector of occupied West Berlin.
The character of Hedwig was inspired by a German divorced U.S. Army wife who was a Mitchell family babysitter and moonlighted as a prostitute at her Junction City, Kansas, trailer park home. The music is steeped in the androgynous 1970s glam rock style of David Bowie (who co-produced the Los Angeles production of the show), as well as the work of John Lennon and early punk performers Lou Reed and Iggy Pop.
The musical opened Off-Broadway in 1998, and won the Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. The production ran for two years, and was remounted with various casts by the original creative team in other US cities. In 2000, the musical had a London West End production, and it has been produced throughout the world in hundreds of stage productions. In 2014 it had its first Broadway production, winning the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
Hall is best known for his role as Dexter Morgan in the Showtime TV Network Dexter, and as David Fisher on the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. In 2010, Hall won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in Dexter.