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Torch Song Trilogy (1982)

  • Harvey Fierstein
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 1980s, 1970s
  • 4M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573690105

A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family...the zappiest evening of theatre you could ask for.

Newsweek

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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)
Torch Song Trilogy is constructed of three moving plays told over three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First!

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 1970 and 1980s, through Stonewall, and the AIDS crises, and other ground-breaking milestones for the LGBT community. Told with a likeable, human voice, Arnold struggles through love, disease, and the challenges of child-rearing.

In the tradition of The Normal Heart and The Pride and one of the pre-cursor for the seminal Angels in American. The award-winning and popular work broke new ground in the theatre: "At the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, Harvey challenged both gay and straight audiences to champion an effeminate gay man's longings for love and family."
REVIEWS:

A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family...the zappiest evening of theatre you could ask for.

Newsweek

Under the tragedy, the play is gorgeously funny.

New York Post
Premiere Production: Torch Song Trilogy premiered at La Mama ETC over the course of two years from February 1978 - October 1979 under the direction of Eric Concklin. The play transferred to Broadway in June 1982 under the direction of Peter Pope.

Characters

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

  • ARNOLD
    ED
    LADY BLUES
    LAUREL
    ALAN
    DAVID
    MRS. BECKOFF

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    Torch Song Trilogy is constructed of three moving plays told over three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! 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 1970 and 1980s, through Stonewall, and the AIDS crises, and other ground-breaking milestones for the LTGB community. Told with a likeable, human voice, Arnold struggles through love, disease, and the challenges of child-rearing. In the tradition of The Normal Heart and The Pride and one of the pre-cursor for the seminal Angels in AmericanThe award-winning and popular work broke new ground in the theatre: 'At the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, Harvey challenged both gay and straight audiences to champion an effeminate gay man's longings for love and family.'

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