![]() ![]() ![]() Arnold in “Torch Song” is a victim because he’s a gay man, and Kaufman and Fierstein never let us forget it. Hayward often played a victim, because she was a woman, we were told. ![]() Late in this comedy, the lead character, Arnold (Michael Urie), references those soapy Susan Hayward movies of the late 1940s and ’50s (“Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman,” “I’ll Cry Tomorrow”), and it must have been the thought of all those black-and-white glam tears that inspired director Moises Kaufman’s weepy staging at Second Stage.Īlso Read: 'The Waverly Gallery' Broadway Review: Kenneth Lonergan Remembers a Lost, Eccentric Life ![]() Granted, the David Hare and Marsha Norman plays have not been blessed with stellar revivals to enhance their reputations since then, but at least no one ever felt the need to cut huge chunks from either work or change the title.Ī revival of Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song” opened Thursday at Broadway’s Hayes Theatre after a run last fall at Off Broadway’s Second Stage it’s 45 minutes shorter than the original, and is performed with only one intermission now. On June 5, 1983, “Torch Song Trilogy” beat out “Plenty” and “‘night, Mother” for best play of that Broadway season. It turned out to be a downright risible night at the Tony Awards. This review first appeared last October when the production opened, with the identical cast, at Off Broadway’s Second Stage. ![]()
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