The run closed May 18, 1985
- Opened
- 1982
- Closed
- May 18, 1985
- Performances
- 1,222
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 10th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it27 named
Susan Edwards
Paul Joynt
Diane Tarleton
Donald Corren
Philip Coccioletti
Raymond Baker
Christopher Collett
Chevi Colton
Jon Cryer
Christopher Gartin
Ken Jacobson
Jared Martin
David Orange
Jeffrey Rogers
Craig Sheffer
Tom Stechschulte
Matthew Vipond
10 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters7 roles recorded
Antony Sher Arnold Beckoff
Court Miller Ed
Rupert Graves Alan
Fisher Stevens David
Diane Tarleton Laurel
Barbara Rosenblat Lady Blues
Estelle Getty Barbara Barrie Ma Beckoff
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Peter Pope
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
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.
BRODERICK, MATTHEW. Bom in 1963 in NYC. Debut OB 1981 in Torch Song Trilogy. Theatre World 1981 82 Season V 38 Willis, p. 201
- 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. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 313
- 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. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 325
- 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. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 183
- Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy) Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 423
- 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. B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 110
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Torch Song Trilogy at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.