195: Hedwig & The Angry Inch Movie Club (Part 2) - Stephen Trask 💋
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🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
I’m joined by the fabulous Stephen Trask to talk co-creating the Hedwig character, his compositional process, why Hedwig means so much to so many, the way “Midnight Radio” lights up our life, the long road to getting the film made, working with John Cameron Mitchell, a bad time with Danny DeVito, why the "Clueless" musical is in limbo, his involvement with the "Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion" musical, "This Ain't No Disco", showing Hedwig at Sundance, the many many unreleased songs tucked away in Stephen's vault, Broadway horror stories, the attempted Hedwig sequel, and much much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Make believe is not pretend We might be in the Quran and never start |
| 0:09.0 | So never lens Welcome to Craig and friends Welcome to Craig and friends Welcome to Craig and friends |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to the second installment of the Head Vigil in the Angry and Shmooby Club featuring none other than Stephen Trask |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks for joining |
| 0:30.0 | It's a movie club, alright |
| 0:32.0 | And it's just about all your experiences with Head Vig, I know you had at least three or four days working on the show over the course of the last 25 years |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, I would say like three or four days |
| 0:46.0 | Time to time you dip in and be like, hey, what are you guys doing? Hey, how about these chords and then just add again? |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, so sort of the angel of the project in many ways you are the angel though because |
| 1:00.0 | Aren't you the person that thought of using the |
| 1:04.0 | prostitute character as sort of the |
| 1:08.0 | What would you say the structure with which to stretch the |
| 1:14.0 | Workover well, yeah, I was the I was the one who suggested a |
| 1:20.0 | Make-ner into a character that babies that are prostitute and be having her be a drag character for John |
| 1:30.0 | Mm-hmm and see |
| 1:32.0 | Making her into a failed |
| 1:38.0 | Rock star |
| 1:40.0 | Who |
| 1:42.0 | Had dreamed of rock star them with |
| 1:46.0 | Tommy |
| 1:48.0 | Yeah, but he went on to be famous without her and she was stuck singing in dives and full of resentment |
| 1:56.0 | That part that part was me so yeah, just that little bit that little piece that little tiny nugget of story |
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