Michael C. Hall to be ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’

Hall will pull on a miniskirt and play the German transsexual Hedwig at the Belasco Theatre starting October 16, through January 4.

By (AP)

Published: Wed 10 Sep 2014, 1:29 PM

Last updated: Fri 3 Apr 2015, 6:49 PM

Michael C. Hall’s next step is going to be a gender bending one — the former Dexter star will play the rock chanteuse at the center of Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway.

Producers of the Tony Award-winning musical revival said on Monday that Hall will pull on a miniskirt and play the German transsexual Hedwig at the Belasco Theatre starting October 16, through January 4.

Hall will be taking over from Andrew Rannells, the Tony Award-nominated star of The Book of Mormon on Broadway and HBO’s Girls. Rannells, in turn, replaced Tony-winner and How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris. Rannells ends his run on October 12.

Hall was one of an impressive quartet of actors on Broadway starring in Will Eno’s play The Realistic Joneses this spring. The former Showtime sociopath joined Toni Collette, Marisa Tomei and Tracy Letts.

Hall has sung onstage before: He took over from Alan Cumming as the white-faced emcee in the last revival of Cabaret, a part he played almost 500 times. Now he’ll be rocking out tunes including Sugar Daddy and Wicked Little Town in platform heels.

In his first Broadway show, he was an understudy in David Hare’s Skylight in 1996. His break-out roles — as a funeral director on HBO’s Six Feet Under and then Dexter — earned Hall Emmy Award nominations.