I was deeply worried for Neil Patrick Harris when he started giving interviews to promote the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the post-punk, neo–glam rock musical in which he stars as a transgender rocker from East Berlin. When New York Times reporter Patrick Healy asked Harris about the challenges of performing in ... After today’s class when we tried to think of movies that had queer protagonists AND a happy ending, and I had trouble doing so, it hit me that I knew of a good Broadway musical that fulfilled these requirements. I saw Hedwig and I loved it....I remember being amazed at how the character overcomes the hardships of being a queer transgender and “ultimately, Hedwig rejects the world’s desire to put her in a box.”