Torch Song Trilogy

A trilogy of plays tracing the relationship between Arnold and Ed over a six-year period and dealing with the themes of parenting, fidelity, family, loving, and homosexuality

Literature & Fiction

Fierstein, Harvey

Dramas & Plays

Villard

Characters: 4 male, 2 femaleTony Award Winner, Best Play 1983 Includes: The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, Widows and Children First!  "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." - N.Y. Post

Gay Presses of New York

BERKLEY

A new edition of the classic drama portraying gay life in New York in the 1970s and 80s—winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, now back on Broadway in a revival hailed by The New York Times as “irresistibly compelling.” What begins as a chance encounter in a New York nightclub leads drag performer Arnold Beckoff on a hilarious yet touching pursuit of love, happiness, and a life he can be proud of. From a failed affair with a reluctant lover to a committed relationship with the promise of a stable family, Arnold’s struggle for acceptance meets its greatest resistance when he faces off against the person whose approval is most important to him: his mother. This edition contains for the first time ever both the original scripts for the three one-act plays (The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First!) as they were performed in the 1970s, as well as the revised script for the 2017 revival that condensed all three into Torch Song. It also includes a never-before-published introduction by Harvey Fierstein, as well as photographs from both the original production and the revival starring Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl and directed by Moisés Kaufman. Praise for Torch Song Trilogy “Harvey Fierstein has created characters so vivid and real that they linger in the mind, talking the night away, long after the lights have been turned out and everyone has left.”—Time “Gorgeously funny . . . a devastatingly comic play with just the right resonances.”—New York Post “Sassy, sweet, and moving.”—People

Torch Song Trilogy: Plays

Ballantine Books

1987 Paperback, Samuel French Edition. A great collection of One Act short plays by Harvey Fierstein.

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Samuel. French

Based on the play by Jean Poiret
Casting: 7m, 3f, w/chorus of 10m, 2f
Scenery: Various Sets
WINNER! Best Revival of a Musical - 2010 Tony® Awards!
WINNER! Outstanding Revival of a Musical - 2010 Outer Critics Circle Award
WINNER! Outstanding Revival of a Musical - 2010 Drama Desk Award
WINNER! Best Musical - 1984 Tony® Awards!
Much revived, most recently in a 2010 production transferred to Broadway from London's Menier Chocolate Factory, La Cage Aux Folles remains one of the all time biggest hits, adding new dimension to the boulevard comedy. After twenty years of un-wedded bliss Georges and Albin, two men partnered for better-or-worse get a bit of both when Georges' son (fathered during a one-night fling) announces his impending marriage to the daughter of a bigoted, right-wing politician. Further complicating the situation is the 'family business': Albin and Georges run a transvestite nightclub in St. Tropez, where Albin is the "star" performer 'Zaza'. Georges reluctantly agrees to masquerade as "normal" when he meets the family of the bride-to-be. But Albin has other plans, with hilarious results. 
"This is Jerry Herman's best musical yet-happier, more assertive, more buoyant than Hello Dolly! or Mame."-New York Post 
"The schmaltziest, most old fashioned major musical since Annie. Highly enjoyable."-The New York Times

La Cage Aux Folles

Herman, Jerry

Samuel French, Inc.

Winner! Best Revival of a Musical - 2010 Tony® Awards! WINNER! Outstanding Revival of a Musical - 2010 Outer Critics Circle Award WINNER! Outstanding Revival of a Musical - 2010 Drama Desk Award WINNER! Best Musical - 1984 Tony® Awards! Much revived, most recently in a 2010 production transferred to Broadway from London's Menier Chocolate Factory, La Cage Aux Folles remains one of the all time biggest hits, adding new dimension to the boulevard comedy. After twenty y

Poiret, Jean

Concord Theatricals

In Torch Song - the two-act revival of Harvey Fierstein's award-winning Torch Song Trilogy - 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 1970s and 1980s. Told with a likable, human voice, Torch Song follows Arnold's odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect.

Torch Song (2018)

A poignant and&nbsp;hilarious memoir from&nbsp;the cultural icon,&nbsp;gay rights activist,&nbsp;and four-time Tony Award-winning actor and playwright, revealing never-before-told stories of his personal struggles and conflict, of sex and romance, and of his fabled career Harvey Fierstein's&nbsp;legendary&nbsp;career has transported&nbsp;him from&nbsp;community theater in Brooklyn, to the lights of&nbsp;Broadway, to&nbsp;the absurd excesses&nbsp;of&nbsp;Hollywood&nbsp;and back. He's received accolades and awards for acting in and/or writing an incredible string of hit plays, films, and TV shows: Hairspray,&nbsp;&nbsp;Fiddler on the Roof, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, Cheers,&nbsp;La Cage Aux Folles,&nbsp;Torch Song Trilogy, Newsies, and Kinky Boots.&nbsp;While&nbsp;he has&nbsp;never shied away from the spotlight, Mr. Fierstein says that even those closest to him have never heard most of the tales--of personal struggles and conflict, of sex and romance, of his fabled career--revealed in these wildly entertaining pages. &nbsp; I Was Better Last Night bares the inner life of this eccentric nonconforming child&nbsp;from his roots&nbsp;in 1952 Brooklyn, to the experimental worlds of Andy Warhol and the Theatre of the Ridiculous, to the gay rights movements of the seventies and the tumultuous AIDS crisis of the eighties, through decades&nbsp;of addiction, despair, and ultimate triumph. &nbsp; Mr. Fierstein's&nbsp;candid recollections provide&nbsp;a rich&nbsp;window&nbsp;into downtown&nbsp;New York City life,&nbsp;gay culture, and&nbsp;the&nbsp;evolution of theater (of which he has been a defining figure),&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;a moving account of his family's journey of acceptance. I Was Better Last Night is filled with wisdom gained,&nbsp;mistakes made, and stories that come together to describe an astonishingly colorful and meaningful&nbsp;life. Lucky for us all, his unique and recognizable voice is as engaging, outrageously&nbsp;funny, and vulnerable on the page.&nbsp;&nbsp;

I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir

Humor & Entertainment

KNOPF

In these one-act plays, America's premier gay playwright offers variations on the theme of "living with AIDS". His new musical, Legs Diamond, starring Peter Allen, opens on Broadway this fall.

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Macmillan Pub. Co.

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Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy: Plays

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La Cage Aux Folles

La Cage Aux Folles

Torch Song (2018)

I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir

Harvey Fierstein's Safe Sex