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Interesting excerpts I found from the Czech programme for Hedwig and the Angry Inch:

Roman Tomeš on Hedwig: "My road to the character of Hedwig was complicated, but much more interesting thanks to it. Strangely, the female identity isn't a problem for me. In one way, I am of the opinion that everyone is born with both a masculine and a feminine energy, and in another way, I consider the female identity as a costume that I disguise myself into. Even if it's true that I don't recognize myself in the mirror afterwards, which is truly a strange experience - to look at yourself but to see a completely unknown being there. What was more hard was to "put on" the inside of Hedwig. To completely understand her and fully embody her. I think that I know what that woman wants to say to us. That it doesn't matter what you wear, what you look like, what your sexuality is and similar things, because underneath all of that, all of us are just the same kind of naked, yearning for internal freedom and finding our other half. That connects all of us and erases all differences between us. If we can achieve, that you will feel liberated during that hour and a half of our show, then we didn't play for you in vain."

Vendula Příhodová on Hedwig and playing Yitzhak: "Hedwig isn't Yitzhak's wife. Because she will never belong to anyone. It's her who will grab you and won't let go, she's like a drug. And it's an immense honor for me that I can from time to time hide in her shadow."

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Just listened to the original 1998 cast recording of HATAI and just... I love this version of Wig in a Box. The way the entire first chorus Hedwig just sounds like this little echo of herself, like she's even too tired of the entire world and depressed that she can barely get herself to sing at all and throughout the song, she does get the energy of the other songs back, but there's still that same little sad feeling during the "then I turn back to myself"? And the way you can kind of feel the irony and a bit of envy during the "Some girls got natural ease" verse that Hedwig must also be feeling with her constant identity struggle? Love the way JCM acted this one

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Saw @fitzrove and @aboutyoutoo do this one where you shuffle your on repeat playlist and share the first 13 songs that come up:

Queen - The Prophet's Song

Sabrina Carpenter - Taste

Taylor Swift - my tears ricochet

Hedwig and the Angry Inch OBC - Hedwig's Lament

Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do

Hedwig and the Angry Inch OBC - Wig In A Box

wotaku - SHANTI

Hedwig and the Angry Inch OBC - Tear Me Down

MARINA - CUPID'S GIRL

Hedwig and the Angry Inch OBC - The Long Grift

Hedwig and the Angry Inch OBC - The Origin of Love

MARINA - BUTTERFLY

The Amazing Devil - Farewell Wanderlust

Anyone feel free to also do this one <3

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Throwback curtain call photos from March 2025 from the Czech production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch featuring Roman Tomeš as Hedwig and Vendula Příhodová as Yitzhak

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Have you guys ever seen this international DVD trailer? It's kinda hilarious.

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Just throwing this one out there under the cut, since I think this one source was:

a) definitely read by Kunze when he was researching for Elisabeth and a few of the lines in my mind definitely did inspire the original set design,

b) I think this one letter is very crucial to understanding Rudolf and his hopelessness in the socio-political situation that is happening around this time

(Private letter from Rudolf to his former teacher Latour from ca. 1879/1880, roughly translated by me from Hamann's biography Rudolf, Crown Prince and Rebel:)

"I can see an angled surface, on which we are sliding downwards, those things immensely touch me, but I can't do anything, I can't even speak loudly, to say what I feel and what I believe in. Our Emperor has no friend. His character, his very being won't allow it. He's standing alone on his high point, he's talking with his servants about the official matters of everyone, but he anxiously avoids any real form of talk, that's why he knows so little about the thinking and feelings of the people, about the opinions and mood of the nation. Those, who are steering the ship today, must in present day be marked as the only ones, who have access to him and naturally, they talk about things in a way that best serves them.

He believes, that we're currently in one of the happiest eras of Austria, he's officially being told that, he only reads the spots circled in red in his newspapers and so he's torn apart from every purely human contact, from every subjective, truly principled advice.

Wouldn't he consider me rude and a rebel, me, with whom no one ever spoke a word about politics, to whom they never allowed the right to his own opinion? There is distrust towards me, I've observed that for a few months now and it has gotten even stronger now. Taaffe doesn't like me, the state advisor Braun can't stand me. My reputation is, that I'm a liberal, and I have a truly trusted contact with people, who aren't well liked, or even they are considered as bad seeds. Three or four years ago, the Emperor was already to some extent liberal and at peace with the 19th century. But now, he is just like he was in the times of poor grandma: clerical, stern and distrustful; things can still evolve even further.

God knows that I'm not a social climber, that I don't want to play any part here, that I have no taste at all for becoming a rebel. My opinions, dedication, obedience and wisdom are far greater than my vanity. If I wanted to play a bad, evil role, to become an insurgent, I could do it in the most extensive way; after all, they are pushing me into it from every possible direction.

From me doesn't speak the voice of a rebellion of a man, who himself wants to play some part, but only the care of an advisor in deep anonymity, so that it would be possible to produce change and then taste the fruits of change; no one is to know from whom that beneficial idea came."

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Did someone say another one?

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"Zeit, dass wir uns endlich sprechen..."

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If anyone from the inside is reading this, please, I need a studio cast recording of the Czech cast of HATAI. The cast was too awesome to only get to release the studio recording of Sugar Daddy. I need all the songs in HD like, right now.

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For as much as I like the OBC studio recording of HATAI, the movie soundtrack, especially Wicked Little Town (reprise), has such a special place in my heart for how vulnerable and raw it is. It just makes me tear up every time.

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Of course, Elisabeth das musical is still a great obsession, but I've also lately really been into Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hadestown, Tanz der Vampire and Rebecca.

Feel free to do this one, won't be tagging anyone :)

@tessabennet tagged me to share a current obsession and to do this picrew here -- thank you!!

Reread the Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater a couple of days ago (in preparation for the graphic novel's release) and today I finished her new novel the Listeners, so I have been thinking a lot about her specific writing style, and also my favorite boy Gansey ;)

I'll tag anyone who sees this, and also @allofthebeanz @estrellami-1 @piedoesnotequalpi @blurglesmurfklaine @wewringmagicfromtheordinary @bohemian-rhapsody-in-blue @partofthefandom and @signals-over-the-air <3

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Costume study of Elisabeth's Wie Du costume from the 1st revival design for an upcoming cosplay project

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Still can't get over Elisabeth and Franz essentially fleeing from Tod during Der letzte Tanz (and I think this is also a reason why Liebe mit Gaffern was cut) during the Schönbrunn staging due to the fact that Eine Keiserin muss glänzen was cut down in a way that doesn't give the Elisabeths enough time to change out of the wedding dress, so the only way to actually leave enough time for the actresses to swap costumes was for them to run away during Der letzte Tanz.

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Hot take (I know a lot of you here love the Hungarian production, but I have to say this): I extremely dislike the entire Conspiracy plotline that is inserted into those productions just because it makes zero sense if you have read anything about Rudolf

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Maturing is realizing that the older 2009 Mozart L'Opera Rock proshot is better than the 2011 3D one

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Deny me and be doomed