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" Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like? "
Body
Gay
Music
" After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times. "
Play
First
Hamlet
" As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly. "
Beautiful
See
Treasure
" Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling. "
Gay
Own
Finding
" 'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion. "
Me
Terms
Think
" '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. "
You
Rock
People
" Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive. "
Feels
Humor
Sadness
" I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It's like a sculpture that you can interpret differently every time you look at it. "
Look
Death
Think
" I am just touched at how strongly the real Hed-heads feel. It feels different from other kinds of devotees; maybe it's the way I felt with certain bands when I was a kid. It feels like a band more than a play. "
Band
Feel
Way
" I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life. "
Confusing
World
Where
" I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's a tool to prepare for the worst. By envisioning it in an artistic context, you can make sense of it before and after it happens. "
People
Worst
Road
" I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art. "
Helpful
Mood
Which
" I never even had a MySpace. "
Had
Never
Myspace
" I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.' "
Gay
Mind
People
" 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. "
Stage
Culture
Man
" I think as far as themes, 'Hedwig' is about what music meant to you as a kid and how rock n' roll can save you; that is definitely part of it. "
Rock
Kid
You
" I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there. "
Got
Very
Catholic
" My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss. "
Always
Favorite
He
" Neil Patrick Harris is a superman of entertainment. "
Harris
Entertainment
Superman
" Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts. "
Feet
Dance
Angels
" People know what 'Hedwig' is now, and that's wonderful. It's not the same as being swamped for being on 'The Big Bang Theory,' but it's much more comfortable. "
Now
Comfortable
Know
" 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. "
Sports
People
My Life
" 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. "
See
More
Nothing
" There's something cool about being a stealth classic. "
Something
Being
Classic
" The think that we hung the film version all on was 'Hedwig' on tour. On stage, it's one theatre, one show. It just seemed natural to change it. In the film, we were able to go to flashback rather than have her talk to the audience. And we had the play to practice and to see where we had made mistakes. "
Practice
Change
Mistakes
" User-comments culture is not useful for creating original work, I think. "
Work
Creating
Culture
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