5/22/2023 0 Comments Torch song trilogy estelle getty![]() ![]() Resistant audience members may experience Arnold’s heart-on-his-sleeve dramatizing as too much self-ennobling opera. world (Before RuPaul) that Fierstein introduced us to no longer looks so unfamiliar, the feelings the play evokes, about being the other and yet longing for the conventional consolations of family and self-respect, remain affectingly on point.ĭirector Michael Kahn, best known in these parts as artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, is moonlighting for the occasion at Studio Theatre, where his “Torch Song” finds a most comfortable and invigorating home. ![]() ![]() And because to tease out of the endearing, 3 1 / 2-hour “Torch Song” any modicum of satisfaction, a director must find his or her perfect Arnold, the nervy, needy, mouthy queen of Fierstein’s ambitions, to give voice to men who simply want to be who they are.Įxpressing this idea on a mainstream stage was a far more exotic pursuit in 1982, when “Torch Song Trilogy” opened at Broadway’s Little Theatre (later rechristened the Helen Hayes), with Fierstein playing Arnold and Estelle Getty as his tsunami-on-rye of a Jewish mother. Why, you ask? Because this actor of impeccable dryness and ridiculously thick hair is an Arnold Beckoff for all (theater) seasons. I say unto you that henceforward, the program of every new production of “Torch Song Trilogy” - Harvey Fierstein’s groundbreaking comedy of gay American aspiration - should contain the words “Brandon Uranowitz.” ![]()
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