![]() ![]() He knew he had a winner on his hands, I’m guessing.ĭirector Moisés Kaufman mingled Matthew Broderick (who starred opposite Harvey in the original iterations at La Mama and again on screen for the film adaptation. Harvey (the good one) was the belle of the ball, naturally, looking trim in a velvet blazer and a custom brooch he “had made for mother.” Even pre-show, when pre-review tensions are usually at a fever pitch, he was chatty and at ease. ![]() ![]() I attended the opening on Thursday, and, despite the size of the room, it had all of the energy and excitement of a large scale Broadway opening. Torch Song, for those of you living under a rock (or sequestered in a compound somewhere), is a truncated version of Torch Song Trilogy - the play-in-three-parts that put a young playwright/actor named Harvey Fierstein, already the darling of downtown’s La Mama, on the mainstream map. Suffice to say, when I heard that Torch Song was coming to Second Stage I felt like I had been given a second chance. I broke free of the cult in July of 1985, missing the Broadway run by approximately two months. I was heavy into the Buddhafield movement, and I rarely left the compound. I living in LA during the early-mid eighties, and I was in a very dark period. ![]() Believe it or not, I never saw the original Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy, even though it ran for three years, giving me plenty of opportunities to attend (1,222 to be specific). ![]()
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