Torch Song Trilogy
Shows · Torch Song Trilogy
Arnold Beckoff, a wisecracking but vulnerable drag queen in New York, searches for love, respect, and a traditional family life. Through three connected plays, Arnold navigates a heartbreaking affair with a bisexual man, finds and loses true love, adopts a gay teenager, and confronts his disapproving mother in a powerful, funny, and deeply moving portrait of gay life in America.
- Opened
- 1982
- Performances
- 1,222
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1982 | Original Theatre unknown. · Peter Pope | 1,222 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Samuel French | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Samuel French | available |
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21 passages naming Torch Song Trilogy, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Harvey Fierstein (Edna Turnblat), as Tracy’s mother who takes in laundry to help meet the bills, returned to Broadway for the first time since Torch Song Trilogy. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p313
The next hit was Harvey Fierstein’s three one-act plays, Torch Song Trilogy (6/10/83; 1,222 performances). Fierstein’s popular play dealt with gay themes in a sometimes frank way. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p325
With a book by Torch Song Trilogy author and gay activist Harvey Fierstein, and direction by the outspoken and highly politi- cized Arthur Laurents, La Cage might have easily become a polemic diatribe on gay rights. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p183
Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy) book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p423
Waissman continued to produce and would have five more Broadway productions, ranging from disastrous (Street Corner Symphony ) to solid (Agnes of God ) to prestigious: Torch Song Trilogy won the Best Play Tony in 1983 and ran 1,222 performances. book:b007l4owcu-ebok-peter-filichia#p110
That the lengthy gay play ran was remarkable enough, but that it was the longest-running non-musical in a decade was even more remarkable. book:b007l4owcu-ebok-peter-filichia#p290
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