When Hedwig and The Angry Inch first premiered off-Broadway in 1998, there was nothing

that had ever been like it before.

And I would argue that there's been very, very little like it since.

If you haven't seen it, Hedwig is a cult classic musical and also now film about a rock and roll singer from Germany, who, as she describes it, has a botched sex change, and that leaves her with the angry inch from the title.

Now, one of the many things that fascinates me about Hedwig that I wanted to talk to its creator and star John Cameron

Mitchell about, is the show's ability to continue to capture our attention and fascination.

I think that there are very few artists that create something like this that people still

want to talk about so in depthdepth more than two decades later.

And now currently, John Cameron Mitchell is starring as Joe Exotic in the new TV show called Joe versus Carol.

That series debuts on Peacock on March 3rd.

And to celebrate the new show, we wanted to revisit this conversation with John, which

we originally taped in person back in June of 2019.

So I think you're going to love it as much as I did.

And without further ado, from The Advocate Magazine in partnership with Glad, I'm Jeffrey

Masters, and this is LGBTQ and A with John Cameron Mitchell.

So Hedwood came out over 20 years ago.

Are you surprised by the legacy in life that it's had since then?

Yeah, I mean, we made it for Stephen Traskin and I made it for our friends and, you know,

we were trying to push the form of a musical within the musical world, you know, off Broadway.

We knew we couldn't be on Broadway at the time because it was still pretty conservative.

But, you know, when you make something you love, your friends tend to love it

and then a few more do. So, yeah, I mean, I don't really plan, you know, how many people will see my

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