American - Actor | April 21, 1963 -
After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.
John Cameron Mitchell
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My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
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'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.
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Neil Patrick Harris is a superman of entertainment.
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Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.
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Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.
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I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
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I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.
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Anger is so constructive.
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There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.
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The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.
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The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.
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