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Lena Hall: From Yitzhak to Hedwig

Tony Award winner Lena Hall tells us about her next level audition for the Hedwig and the Angry Inch revival. Then she plays a game based on her monthly EP covers project, "Obsessed."
Lena Hall, who won a Tony for her performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, guests on NPR's Ask Me Another at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY.

Tony Award winner Lena Hall comes from a long line of performers. "Seven generations back in the Philippines," Hall recounted to host Ophira Eisenberg, "my father's great-great-great-whatever ... was, like, a dancer." She continues, "My father's a choreographer; he had his own company. And my mother was his prima

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