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Trask composed the music and lyrics for the stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch . He received an Obie Award for the play and a Grammy Award nomination for the movie . Trask's real-life band Cheater performed as Hedwig A national tour of the show began at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre on October 2, 2016 .
Jun 7, 2015 · "This is for you guys and for Jack Steeb," Mitchell said. Steeb, who was the bass player in the band Cheater with Hedwig collaborator Stephen Trask and partner to Mitchell for six years, passed ...
May 27, 2014 · Stephen Trask was one of the original members of the Squeeze Box House Band, performing with Debbie Harry, Hole, and Green Day. For five years, he performed with his band Cheater, which originated the role of the Angry Inch. He has scored numerous films, including Dreamgirls, The Station Agent, and Lovelace: The Inside Story of Deep Throat.
STEPHEN TRASK. Stephen first achieved wide acclaim as the co-creator/composer/lyricist of the award-winning stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which was also developed into a feature film released by Fine Line Features and for which he won an Obie Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, a 1998 New York Magazine Award, Drama Desk nominations for ...
Written by Obie-Award winner John Cameron Mitchell and featuring songs by Stephen Trask of the alternative rock band, Cheater, "Hedwig And The Angry Inch," begins previews Feb. 1 and opens ...
Music critic David Fricke first wrote about HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH after seeing the off-Broadway production at New York’s Jane Street Theatre in 1998. In this program, recorded in February 2019, Fricke talks to composer-lyricist Stephen Trask about Trask’s band Cheater, how the band influenced...
Best Musical Revival Nominee: TONY, Outer Critics, Drama Desk, and Drama League! Winner of the Obie Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical and the Sundance Film Festival Audience Prize Hedwig and the Angry Inch, “the best rock musical ever” (Rolling Stone) follows the journey of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, victim of a botched sex-change operation, as ...
