John Cameron Mitchell To Return To "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"

Beginning January 21, 2015, John Cameron Mitchell will return to "Hedwig and the Angy Inch" on Broadway for eight weeks.

Mitchell created the role back in the 1990s off-Broadway at the Jane Street Theatre. The current production on Broadway won Tony Awards for Neil Patrick Harris for "Best Actor in a Musical" and Best Revival.

From the New York Times:

“I’m having fun going through the old show in my mind and thinking about throwing in more ad-libs and rock ’n’ roll like we did downtown,” Mr. Mitchell said in a telephone interview, recalling the original runs of “Hedwig” at the Westbeth Theater and Jane Street Theater, where he sometimes performed laying on stage when he was tired or while he was in the bathroom offstage.

“I think it will be more frayed,” Mr. Mitchell said of the way his performance might differ from Neil Patrick Harris’s, who originated the role on Broadway last spring and earned a Tony Award for best actor. “We’ve all changed in the last 25 years. I’ve lost friends who were originally involved with the show. I originally wrote the role to release anger and grief – I’m generally a pretty quiet person – and I haven’t experienced a lot of emotion in that same way in a while. I think I’ll even surprise myself as people come to mind while I’m performing.”

Since Harris' departure Andrew Rannells and Michael C. Hall have performed the lead role in the revival.