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Stephen Trask (born Stephen R. Schwartz; born August 29, 1966) is an American musician and composer who graduated from Wesleyan University. He was the music director and house band member at the New York City club Squeezebox, where they performed with stars such as Debbie Harry, Lene Lovich and Joey Ramone.
Stephen Trask (* 1967) ist ein US-amerikanischer Komponist. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Biografie. 2 Filmografie (Auswahl) 3 Weblinks. 4 Einzelnachweise. Biografie [ Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten] Nach seinem Schulabschluss 1984 an der Williams School studierte Stephen Trask Musik an der Wesleyan University, wo er 1989 seinen Abschluss machte.
- Tear Me Down
- Sugar Daddy
- Angry Inch
- Wig in A Box
- The Origin of Love
- Wicked Little Town
- The Long Grift
- Midnight Radio
"Tear Me Down" is performed by the characters Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell) and Yitzhak (Miriam Shor). It is the show's opening number. It contains a spoken section alluding to the construction of the Berlin Wallon August 13, 1961, and its fall on November 9, 1989.
"Sugar Daddy" is performed in the musical by the characters Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell) and Sgt. Luther Robinson (Maurice Dean Wintin the film). The divide between Communist East Germany and the democratic Western World is illustrated in the numerous cultural references included in the song's lyrics; they underline the idea that Hedwig is living...
"The Angry Inch" is performed by John Cameron Mitchell. The song details the botched sex-change operationthat Hedwig got in order to marry an American soldier and move to the United States. The eponymous "angry inch" is what remains of Hedwig's penis — "six inches forward and five inches back". The song was covered by Type O Negative on the album L...
"Wig in a Box" is performed in the musical by the character Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell) and her band The Angry Inch. The titular wig in the box is the last present that Hedwig's husband Luther bought her, and the song concerns Hedwig listening to music and trying on wigs, which enables her to escape her present troubles and become whomever she w...
"The Origin of Love" is based on a story from Plato's Symposium. In the Symposium, a party is being held in which a series of speeches are given paying homage to Eros, the Greek god of love. "The Origin of Love" is taken from the speech given by the playwright Aristophanes. According to the speech, long ago, humans were composed of two people stuck...
"Wicked Little Town" is a poetic reflection on the doomed love between two of the characters, Hedwig and Tommy Gnosis. The original song is basically about a person who falls in love with someone in a wicked town that seems to be impossible to escape. In the story of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hedwig sings the tune as a love song to Tommy, while in...
"The Long Grift", in the film version, was cut except for the line "Look what you've done." In the stage version, the song is sung by Hedwig's husband Yitzhak, when Hedwig becomes overwhelmed with emotion and is unable to perform the song. The lyrics accuse Hedwig's former lover (Tommy Gnosis) of grifting her, singing: "I didn't want to know that y...
"Midnight Radio'" is performed by John Cameron Mitchell in both the original off-Broadway play and the 2001 feature film. The song contains a number of references to the inspiring women of rock 'n roll, including Aretha Franklin, Yoko Ono, Nico, Patti Smith, Tina Turner, and Nona Hendryx.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and a book by John Cameron Mitchell. The musical follows Hedwig Robinson, a genderqueer East German singer of a fictional rock and roll band.
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch è un musical rock con musiche di Stephen Trask e libretto di John Cameron Mitchell, debuttato nell'Off Broadway nel 1998. Il musical racconta di Hedwig, un ragazzo gender non-conforming originario della Germania dell'Est che dopo una fallimentare operazione per cambiare sesso si ritrova ad avere organi ...
Angelo Nicotra: Luther. Hedwig - La diva con qualcosa in più ( Hedwig and the Angry Inch) è un film del 2001 diretto da John Cameron Mitchell, tratto dal musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch . La produzione fa parte del filone di film glamrock basati sulle vicende di rockstar semifallite, concerti in costume, trucchi esagerati e vite vissute all ...
Stephen Trask is the author of the music and lyrics for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, as well as the Music Director for the show. He was the original leader of the notorious Squeeze Box house band. During his time there as Music Director he performed with Debbie Harry, Lene Lovitch, Hole, Green Day, Joey Ramone, as well as New York’s most ...
