Casting is all in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," but here all's very well indeed.
The actor in the title role must sing 11 numbers and MC what's effectively a two-hour, nonstop, one-man glam-rock play, making his performance absolutely crucial to "Hedwig's" success. Luckily at Parco Theater, Shibuya, popular thirtysomething TV and movie character actor Hiroshi Mikami turns in a tour de force as the hero, a New York drag queen rock singer left with a 1-inch penis after his sex-change operation went wrong.
As anyone who saw creator John Cameron Mitchell's scintillatingly camp and melancholy Hedwig in the cult-hit 2001 movie will know, that's no small achievement.