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...Harvey Fierstein and Torch Song Trilogy win two big Tonys...
Matthew's first professional stage part was in Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, in which he played the adopted homosexual son of a former drag queen. Slightly built (5 ft. 8 in.), Broderick looks no more than 17. Fierstein, who was the star as well as the author, kept telling him to hurry his lines. Broderick resisted, and the two yelled and fought. "Harvey used to push me against the wall - he's strong as a bull - but it freed me up a lot as an actor to play against him. He has a nice freedom...
Torch Song Trilogy. Son of a Brooklyn handkerchief maker, Playwright Harvey Fierstein began working as a drag queen in East Village clubs at 16. As he enacts the key role, he vividly evokes a mode of life that is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching...
...been killed in a "fag bash," an attack on homosexuals by macho punks; Ed has finally split from Laurel; and Arnold is in the process of adopting a gay teen-ager (Matthew Broderick). Add to that a visit from Mrs. Beckoff (Estelle Getty), the ultimate Jewish mother, and Fierstein has enough material for another three-acter. He has in fact perhaps too much to handle-or too little sense of structure to handle it well. He seems to have just tacked everything hurriedly together, without bothering to smooth the rough edges...
With all of its flaws, however, Torch Song Trilogy, is a remarkable achievement. All the actors seem right, and several are exceptional, but the evening, in acting as well as writing, clearly belongs to Fierstein, 27. The son of a Brooklyn handkerchief maker, he began working as a drag queen in East Village clubs at 16 before turning to playwriting at 19. Onstage, his voice derives from Tallulah Bankhead, and his drag-queen clothes would look good on Carmen Miranda. In every other way he is unique. Like the very best actors, he does not play a part, he inhabits...