Shows · Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy
Opened 1982
1,222 performances
Musical, Megamusical
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.
- Music
- Harvey Fierstein
- Lyrics
- Harvey Fierstein
- Book
- Harvey Fierstein
Productions1 on Broadway
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Samuel French | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Samuel French | available |
Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The four-hour play begins with a soliloquy in which he explains his cynical disillusionment with love.
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