![]() Fierstein - hitherto best known for his cross-dressing turns on the margins of Off Broadway - for best play and best actor, and established him as the rare openly gay performer and writer whom even Mom and Dad from the suburbs might enjoy without tsoris. ![]() “Torch Song,” which opened at the Tony Kiser Theater on Thursday night in a Second Stage Theater production, is a two-act, trimmed-down version of “Torch Song Trilogy.” That’s the original four-hour portrait of the tribulations of a flamboyantly emotional gay man that captivated mainstream theatergoers when it opened on Broadway in 1982. Not bad for a three-decades-old comedy that would seemed to have passed its sell-by date years ago. Ruehl make a strong case for a fiercely tugged umbilical cord as the ultimate weapon of destruction. Portraying a New York drag queen and his mother visiting from Miami, Mr. ![]() Because what they’re doing feels too painful, too private and quite possibly too close to your own home for public consumption.īut another part of you is flushed with the thrill that comes from watching two ideally matched performers, at the top of their games, demonstrating the unholy power of flesh and blood to wound its own. ![]() When Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl start to cut each other’s hearts out in the second act of Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song,” your responses are likely to be deeply divided. ![]()
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