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Torch Song (2018)

  • Harvey Fierstein
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 1980s, 1970s
  • 4M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573708015

Torch Song is a new two-act adaptation of the 1983 Tony® Award-winning play.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1980s, 1970s
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Cautions: Open Flame, Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking, Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Tony® Award for Best Play (1983)
In Torch Song – the two-act revival of Harvey Fierstein’s award-winning Torch Song Trilogy – the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City, is dramatized over the span of the late 1970s and 1980s. Told with a likable, human voice, Torch Song follows Arnold’s odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect.
REVIEWS:

"Spectacular! A Grade-A energizing joy!"

 Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"Torch Song brings laughter and tears simultaneously. It's impossible not to feel electricity in the theater."

 Entertainment Weekly

Premiere Production: Torch Song premiered at the Tony Kieser Theatre in a Second Stage Theater Production on October 19, 2017 under the direction of Moisés Kaufman. Under the same direction, the play transferred to Broadway in November 1, 2018 at The Hayes Theater as a Second Stage Theater production.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Drag performance

  • ARNOLD - A drag queen, Jewish, and gay.
    ED - A Brooklyn school teacher, older than Arnold, handsome, charming, claims he is bisexual.
    LAUREL - A woman Ed meets while in a relationship with Arnold. Later becomes Ed's lover.
    ALAN - A handsome man, younger than Arnold, who models and aspires to be an actor.
    DAVID - Arnold's fifteen-year-old foster child (played by an adult).
    MRS. BECKOFF - Arnold's widowed mother.

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    In Torch Song – the two-act revival of Harvey Fierstein’s award-winning Torch Song Trilogy – the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City, is dramatized over the span of the late 1970s and 1980s. Told with a likable, human voice, Torch Song follows Arnold’s odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect.

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