Music and lyrics: Stephen Trask, Book: John Cameron Mitchell.
Synopsis[]
Hedwig Schmidt starts off as a boy brought up by an overly strict mother in Germany. He meets Luther, an American GI, who is prepared to take Hedwig back to the USA provided he undergoes a sex-change operation and becomes his bride. Unfortunately the operation is botched up, and not only is she left with a one-inch remnant of her past, but her new husband leaves her. She forms her own band and becomes a rock and roll superstar.