2023-2024 SEASON PRODUCTIONS
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
November 3 - 19, 2023
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash that took Broadway by storm in its Tony Award®–winning 2014 revival also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock ‘n’ roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just “an angry inch.” This outrageous and unexpectedly hilarious story is dazzlingly performed by Hedwig (née Hansel) in the form of a rock gig/stand-up comedy routine backed by the hard-rocking band “The Angry Inch.” Using songs and monologues, Hedwig tells her story, which began in the former East Berlin where as Hansel he meets Luther, an American GI who promises to take the young man to the States on the condition that he switch his sex. After the bungled operation, Luther abandons newly named Hedwig in a Kansas trailer park, where she turns to music and meets geeky Tommy Speck, whom she takes under her wing and soon falls for. Tommy steals her songs, achieves rock star fame, and Hedwig is once again cast aside. She decides to demand redress and stalks Tommy’s world tour, performing in the T.G.I. Fridays that are situated next door to his stadiums. Hedwig describes her life’s search for “The Origin of Love” and her other half. It’s a rocking ride, funny, touching, and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch when they deserved a mile. FORT WAYNE PREMIERE.
WHEN:
Friday, November 3rd • 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 4th • 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 5th • 6:00 PM
Friday, November 10th • 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 11th • 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 12th • 6:00 PM
Friday, November 17th • 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 18th • 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 19th • 6:00 PM
WHERE:
Three Rivers Music Theatre
416 W 4th Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46808
CAST:
HEDWIG - Daniel Meredith
YITZHAK - Greyson Barnett
PRODUCTION TEAM:
DIRECTOR - Andy Planck
STAGE MANAGER - Shawna Roberts
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER - Courtney Wallace
COSTUME DESIGNER - Michelle Brady-Cook
LIGHTING DESIGNER - Brock Eastom
TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCED
March 1 - 17, 2024
THREE RIVERS MUSIC THEATRE & FORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE COLLABORATION
WELL, THE NEWS IS OUT OF THE BAG! Is that the phrase? As we are the first companies to produce this show in this region, the rights-holders won’t contractually allow us to announce the title until December 1st! BUT— the only thing that’s restricted is the actual title. They told us we can hint. And hint we shall!
In a magical world, we reunite to celebrate who we are and to make a special choice by deciding which of us will ascend to the great beyond and come back to a new life. This musical collaboration with Fort Wayne Dance Collective and Three Rivers Music Theatre will feature extraordinary local artists while showcasing their unique skills and special traits, both on stage and off.
What could it be!?
PERFORMANCES:
Friday, February 29th, 2024 • 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 1st, 2024 • 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 2nd, 2024 • 6:00 PM
Friday, March 8th, 2024 • 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 9th, 2024 • 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 10th, 2024 • 8:00 PM
Friday, March 15th, 2024 • 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 16th, 2024 • 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 17th, 2024 • 6:00 PM
TITLE TO BE RELEASED & TICKETS ON SALE DECEMBER 1ST!
COMPLETED 2023-2024 PRODUCTIONS
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
STARRING KATE BLACK AND BOB HALUSKA
A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet (portrayed by Kate Black), the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major play that unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, Three Rivers Music Theatre presents the FORT WAYNE PREMIERE of Tracy Letts’ masterpiece.
“I’d bet the farm that no family has ever been as unhappy in as many ways—and to such sensationally entertaining effect—as the Westons of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, a fraught, densely plotted saga of an Oklahoma clan in a state of near-apocalyptic meltdown. Fiercely funny and bitingly sad…[a] turbo-charged tragicomedy…” —NY Times
“In Tracy Letts’ ferociously entertaining play, the American dysfunctional family drama comes roaring into the twenty-first century with eyes blazing, nostrils flaring and fangs bared, laced with corrosive humor so darkly delicious and ghastly that you’re squirming in your seat even as you’re doubled-over laughing. A massive meditation on the cruel realities that often belie standard expectations of conjugal and family accord—not to mention on the decline of American integrity itself.” —Variety
RATED R - PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED
CONTENT WARNINGS:
Strong Language • Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Abuse • Family/Generational Trauma • Death/Suicide • Substance Abuse
WHEN:
Friday, August 25th • 8:00 PM
Saturday, August 26th • 8:00 PM
Sunday, August 27th • 6:00 PM
Friday, September 1st • 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 2nd • 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 3rd • 6:00 PM
Friday, September 8th • 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 9th • 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 10th • 6:00 PM
WHERE:
Three Rivers Music Theatre
416 W 4th Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46808
CAST:
VIOLET WESTON • Kate Black
BEVERLY WESTON • Bob Haluska
BARBARA FORDHAM • Jennifer Poiry
IVY WESTON • Hayley Johnson
KAREN WESTON • Renee Gonzales
BILL FORDHAM • Dan Ambrose
JEAN FORDHAM • Bella Hadley
MATTIE FAE AIKEN • Ranae Butler
CHARLIE AIKEN • Nol Beckley
"LITTLE CHARLES" AIKEN • Chandler Chastain
STEVE HEIDEBRECHT • Brock Graham
SHERIFF GILBEAU • Joe Hyndman
JOHNNA MONEVATA • Triniti McFarland
PRODUCTION TEAM:
DIRECTOR • Andy Planck
STAGE MANAGER • Kayley Alissa
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER • Sean Findley
FIGHT & INTIMACY COORDINATOR • Carolynn Stouder
COSTUME DESIGNER • Michelle Brady-Cook
LIGHTING DESIGNER • Brock Eastom
PROPS COORDINATOR • Pamela Lewis
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
