Description: “Torch Song” is a play written by Harvey Fierstein about a drag performer from the seventies, the relationships, realities and drama up to the eighties. The firs act takes place at International Stud (a real place, and notorious in the pre-AIDS era), that Arnold meets Ed in 1974. Their passionate physical affair ends (sort of) when Ed announces he’s going to marry a woman, Laurel (Roxanna Hope Radja). Arnold, in turn, takes up with Alan (Michael Rosen), a streetwise young model and former hustler. The erotic and psychological crosscurrents among this foursome occupy the play. And as Arnold, Mr. Urie, who has become one of our most inspired physical comedians, digs deeper here to let us feel exactly where it hurts. When we meet Ms. Ruehl as his mother (call her Ma) in the play’s second act, we experience the shock of recognition that occurs when longtime friends introduce us to their parents. “Oh,” we think, “so that’s where it comes from.” Embodied with carefully harnessed restraint by Ms. Ruehl, whose expert comic timing matches Mr. Urie’s, Ma loves her Arnold as only a mother can. Mr. Urie and Ms. Ruehl take the show to a level of emotional truthfulness that makes objections to ungainly construction feel beside the point. Ma’s refusal to acknowledge the fact of Arnold’s homosexuality is given full validity in Ms. Ruehl’s uncompromising performance as a woman who avoids the truth by making a joke of it. This production was staged at the Helen Hayes Theater. This playbill was signed by the cast-Michael Urie (Arnold), Ward Horton (Ed), Roxanna Hope Radja (Laurel), Michael Rosen (Alan), Jack DiFalco (David) and Mercedes Ruehl (Ma).
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Location: New York, New York
End Time: 2024-12-13T20:12:36.000Z
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