![]() The individual parts of the play had previously been performed in 1978, and 1979, in 1981 the three part play was first performed in uptown NYC, before it transferred to the Actor’s Playhouse where it ran for 177 performances. The collection of three short plays, which are performed in succession, runs for over four hours and tells the story of Arnold Beckoff, a gay Jewish drag queen and torch song singer. The play is recognised for its depiction of an effeminate gay man who longs for a family. The theatrical version of Torch Song Trilogy opened off Broadway at The Actor’s Playhouse in Greenwich Village in 1982. The cast included Matthew Broderick, but he nearly wasn’t in the film version. ![]() The film reunited many of the cast members from the original stage production that had run on Broadway several years. The film version of Harvey Fierstein’s acclaimed work Torch Song Trilogy had its premiere on this day in 1988. Matthew Broderick nearly didn’t appear in the film ‘Torch Song Trilogy’ ![]()
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