The new recording, a charity album for The Hetrick-Martin Institute (home of the Harvey Milk School) is now available from Off Records. The CD — featuring Rufus Wainwright, Yoko Ono and Cyndi Lauper — was executive-produced by Mitchell, Chris Slusarenko and Stephen Trask. The complete track listing follows: "The Origin of Love" (Rufus Wainwright)
"Angry Inch" (Sleater-Kinney and Fred Schneider)
"The Long Grift" (They Might Be Giants)
"Sugar Daddy" (Frank Black)
"City of Women" (Robyn Hitchcock)
"Freaks" (Imperial Teen)
"Wicked Little Town-Hedwig Version" (The Breeders)
"Nailed" (Bob Mould)
"Wig in a Box" (Polyphonic Spree)
"Milford Lake" (John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask)
"Ladies & Gentlemen" (Stephen Colbert)
"Tear Me Down" (Spoon)
"Hedwig's Lament/Exquisite Corpse" (Yoko Ono and Yo La Tengo)
"Wicked Little Town-Tommy Gnosis Version" (Ben Kweller with Ben Folds and Ben Lee)
"Midnight Radio" (Cyndi Lauper and The Minus 5)
"Origin of Love-Reprise" (Jonathan Richman)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch played 777 performances and 12 previews at Off-Broadway's Jane Street Theatre, Feb. 14, 1998-Jan. 30, 2000. Written by its original star, John Cameron Mitchell (book), and Stephen Trask (music and lyrics), the musical concerned an obscure and tortured German-American transsexual rock singer, who told her darkly comic story while ostensibly performing a concert. The Angry Inch, her back-up band, was Trask's rock combo Cheater. The musical was subsequently made into a film, which also starred Mitchell in the title role.
For more information about the recording, visit www.offrecords.com.