The play won Fierstein two Tony Awards, for Best Play (with John Glines’ historic Tony speech that acknowledged his lover and co-producer Larry Lane) and Best Actor in Play two Drama Desk Awards, for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Actor in a Play and the Theatre World Award. Later in the run, David Garrison and Jonathan Hadary portrayed Arnold, Craig Sheffer was cast as Alan, and Barbara Barrie replaced Getty. Fierstein, Joynt, and Getty were joined by Court Miller as Ed and Fisher Stevens as David. Beckoff.Īfter eight previews, the Broadway production, directed by Peter Pope, opened on Jat the Little Theatre, where it ran for 1,222 performances. The cast included Fierstein as Arnold, Joel Crothers as Ed, Paul Joynt as Alan, Matthew Broderick as David, and Estelle Getty as Mrs. On Januit transferred to the Actors’ Playhouse in Greenwich Village, where it ran for 117 performances, produced by The Glines. Torch Song Trilogy first opened at the uptown Richard Allen Center in October 1981, produced by The Glines. The first staging of Fugue in a Nursery opened at LaMama on February 1, 1979.
The Off-Broadway production opened on at the Players Theatre, where it ran for 72 performances. The first staging of International Stud opened on Februat La MaMa, E.T.C., an Off-Off-Broadway theater, where it ran for two weeks. The award-winning and popular work broke new ground in the theatre: “At the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, Harvey challenged both gay and straight audiences to champion an effeminate gay man’s longings for love and family.” Production History The backroom plays a central role in the act. The bar had a backroom where men engaged in anonymous sex.
The first act derives its name ( International Stud) from an actual gay bar of the same name at 117 Perry Street in Greenwich Village in the 1960s and 1970s. Arnold is forced to deal with his mother’s intolerance and disrespect when she visits from Florida. In the third, several years later, Arnold is a single father raising gay teenager David. In the second, one year later, Arnold meets Alan, and the two settle down into a blissful existence that includes plans to adopt a child, until tragedy strikes. In the first, Arnold meets Ed, who is uncomfortable with his bisexuality. Each act focuses on a different phase in Arnold’s life.
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