![]() ![]() ![]() It is intended that a character called “Lady Blues” will sing a torch song between each section. The sections keep the actors apart, with monologues and speaking together on the phone, until they finally share the stage in the last scene. Told in fragments as Arnold, a drag queen, talks to the audience, then Ed tries to pick up Arnold in a bar (the real-life gay bar "International Stud"), they break up when Ed can’t come out of the closet. The three plays have radically different styles, but all of them concern a character named Arnold Beckoff, and his on-again-off-again relationship with his bisexual lover Ed. ![]() in New York in the '70s, before coming to Broadway in 1983. The three plays included were each written and produced separately, at La Ma Ma, etc. Fierstein wrote the three plays to give himself acting work, and he became a famous writer accidentally. Torch Song Trilogy is a groundbreaking gay theatre piece by Harvey Fierstein. ![]()
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