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This was true as well of her show in Cambridge where the audience came prepared for an unconventional performance. But a few sported Hedwig and the Angry Inch t-shirts—not surprising, considering the similar themes of the two musicals, the musical involvement of punk-rocker Stephen Trask in both projects, and Gershon’s position, since the release of Bound, as a lesbian icon...
...earned an undergraduate degree in physics at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., a master's in engineering at UCLA and an M.B.A. at Harvard. He learned his current craft at such places as Lotus Development Corp., Dun & Bradstreet and Spencer Trask Software Group, a technology-focused venture-capital firm in New York City. Spencer Trask CEO Kevin Kimberlin remembers Kim as the rare executive who knows software and electronics and is also skilled in finance and marketing--and in closing tough deals...
...biopic of a whacked-out East German emigre with Courtney Love's disposition and Farrah Fawcett's hairdo, seduced the selection committee. "It's burning with originality and energy," says programmer Shari Frilot. Hedwig always did. When it opened off-Broadway three years ago, critics raved about Stephen Trask's songs, and although the show's writer and star, John Cameron Mitchell, appeared nightly in drag (usually the fastest road to camp marginalization), his hilarious, moving mock concert became a mainstream theatrical phenomenon. "In the whole long, sorry history of rock musicals," declared Rolling Stone, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch...
...adding flashbacks of Hedwig's bleak Berlin childhood, her rocky romantic history and even her botched sex-change operation (which explains the "angry inch"). "We kept the dramatic structure of the show," says Mitchell, who also kept its heady themes (borrowed from Plato and Ibsen), as well as Trask's irresistible score of country, rock and '70s-style ballads. And Hedwig still bears a striking resemblance to a German baby sitter from Mitchell's Army-brat childhood. "She had so many dates!" recalls Mitchell, who later realized she was also a prostitute. "She was no beauty, but she had poise...