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Delta Productions opens their first New Orleans season with Harvey Fierstein’s TORCH SONG TRILOGY. Fierstein’s classic is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its Broadway run, for which it won the Tony Award for Best Play. The play follows Arnold, a lovable yet sometimes neurotic drag queen, as he searches for love and “normalcy” in his life.
“‘Torch Song Trilogy’ . . . give(s) us a progressively dramatic and illuminating portrait of a man who laughs, and makes us laugh, to keep from collapsing.”
--Mel Gussow, The New York Times
This production is at times funny, at times poignant, and always ...Read More
Delta Productions opens their first New Orleans season with Harvey Fierstein’s TORCH SONG TRILOGY. Fierstein’s classic is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its Broadway run, for which it won the Tony Award for Best Play. The play follows Arnold, a lovable yet sometimes neurotic drag queen, as he searches for love and “normalcy” in his life.
“‘Torch Song Trilogy’ . . . give(s) us a progressively dramatic and illuminating portrait of a man who laughs, and makes us laugh, to keep from collapsing.”
--Mel Gussow, The New York Times
This production is at times funny, at times poignant, and always boldly truthful. Arnold is an easy hero to root for, a man who fearlessly accepts who he is, and dares the world to do any differently. He asks the question “What is normal?” with a dismissive shrug, even while longing for that sense of normalcy himself. In a day when we are still asking questions about what a family is and what love between two people can look like, this piece has never felt so timely. The torch songs of the title provide a powerful and soulful soundtrack throughout, performed live by both Chris Wecklein as Arnold and Wendy Miklovic as the show’s torch singer, Lady Blues.
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