Harvey Fierstein

On stage 5 productions, 23 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on5 works

Funny Girl (2022 Revival)
Kinky Boots
La Cage aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles (2004 Revival)
Newsies

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In the literature8 passages

• On a good day, Jack’s voice sounded more like shaved granite than gravel. That afternoon, he’d been shouting at the chorus so much he sounded like Harvey Fierstein after three shots of raw alcohol. The shuffling and murmuring slowly ceased, and Jack got right to the point.ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• 2 Harvey Fierstein was the ideal choice of Arthur Laurents and Jerry Herman to write his first libretto; for La Cage aux Folles, whose plot revolves around a gay couple who run an elegant drag show nightclub in the South of France. Mr Fierstein’s brilliant, and frankly homosexual play, Torch Song Trilogy had won the Tony award the previou…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
• It was one of theater’s best rags-to-riches stories. Harvey Fierstein—a gay, overweight, croak-voiced transvestite who was not attractive by conventional standards—didn’t have to wallow off-off-Broadway paying for his own readings and productions. He made the highly unexpected leap to Broadway with his ambitious Torch Song Trilogy, which…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Harvey Fierstein revamped the 1992 Disney disaster film (to use that term in a different context) about the Newsboys Strike of 1899. He kept the main conflict: Joseph Pulitzer had upped the percentage newsboys would have to pay to sell his papers, and the kids decided not to stand for it. They loudly protested, pumped their arms in the ai…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• JERRY HERMAN: It was a very easy song to write, but only because Harvey Fierstein had written a very moving scene to end Act I, and I said, “Oh, boy, that has to be a song.” Emotions heighten when you musicalize a scene. Still, I was blown away. I’d never seen a song affect an audience quite like that. People stood up and cheered; they cr…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• Cast: Marissa Jaret Winokur, Harvey Fierstein, Laura Bell Bundy, Mary Bond Davis, Kerry Butler, Linda Hart, Jackie Hoffman, Matthew Morrison, Corey Reynolds, Clarke Thorell, Joel Vig, Danelle Eugenia Wilson, Dick Latessaebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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