LIFT UP YOUR HANDS- Hedwig And The Angry Inch 2000

Seattle, 2000- Final Show at Re-bar

Hedwig……………………………..…….……………..Nick Garrison

Yitzhak…………………………………………………….Sarah Rudinoff

Skszp/Keyboards………………………….Jill Wainsguard

Jacek/Guitar…………………………………...Jim Nelson

Schlatko/Bass……………….………………..Steve Newton

Krzysztof/Drums………..….……………….Ben Ireland

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s genderqueer rock musical masterpiece premiered off-broadway at the Jane Street Theatre in 1998. It became an instant cult classic and the original production toured to LA and London.

The creators could not get a Broadway production mounted right away so they decided to give the rights to smaller repertory theaters and individuals. The first group to get the rights, before a film version of the show premiered, was director Mark Gallagher in Seattle.

Premiering in Seattle at the legendary gay music club and performance venue Re-Bar in November of 2000, the show as an instant sensation and local actor Nick Garrison became an iconic Hedwig for the ages.