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Kelly's death marked the third fatality on the Red Line project since it began in 1979 Last August, a tunnel caved in near Porter Square, killing a construction worker. Approximately 18 months ago, a worker was killed when the acctyline torch he was using blew up near Davis Square in Somerville. Neither of these workers was employed by the Perini Corporation...
...interest in Stalin's Soviet Union? In the atrocity sweepstakes, Hitler runs a distant second to Stalin, who sanctioned the deaths of 20 million to 50 million of his countrymen. Nor can Nazism, a brutally simple triumph of the goons, touch the tragic complexities of Stalinism-a political torch fanned by the world's idealists while one avuncular pipe smoker in Moscow was wielding it as a genocidal bludgeon. Certainly Stalin was not typecast as a satanic maniac. Hitler was, and his regime paraded itself as a national theater of cruelty. The black leather and stainless steel...
Take the lead in song, "Loveland". Clindy Wilson's torch of a voice blends in with the thick, funky beat laid down by drummer Keith Strickland and guitarist Ricky Wilson. The result is a kind of trance, similar to producer Byrne's hypnotic work on "Remain in Light," certainly not as intricate or complicated, but more minimalist and celebratory. And it makes you want to move...
Most arresting of all is the hero, Arnold Beckoff, played by the author. Arnold's occupation is drag queen; he sings torch songs at a Manhattan gay bar called the International Stud. As the first play opens, he is sitting in costume in his dressing room. He delivers some straight talk about his life, his loves and his lovers, and very quickly, without seeming to try, seduces the audience. Arnold is one of those characters who demand-and receive-an audience's affection. He is tough, funny and, in his own upside-down way, almost clairvoyant...
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...