Neil Patrick Harris Rocks It as Hedwig

KenderTheater (@KenderTheater)

4/19/14, 10:37 PM I will confess that I had some doubt that he could pull off the darker, more serious aspects of the role, but @ActuallyNPH [Neil Patrick Harris] gives it his all and pulls off an amazing performance in @HedwigOnBway.   They can start polishing his Tony, because no musical actor this season is mesmerizing audiences the way NPH does in "Hedwig."  While part of me misses the grittiness of the original 1998 production, and despite some concern in the first half hour that it was being played too broadly for laughs, in the end NPH and this production make it all work.  The show on Broadway is both entertaining and moving, which is hard to pull off, but what this special show needs to work.