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The combined play runs at roughly four hours in length, so could not mention AIDS , so Fierstein moved the film to before the AIDS crisis. PLOT SYNOPSIS Each of the three acts tells a separate part of the life story of Arnold Beckoff, a Torch Song -singing Jewish Drag Queen in New York City who starts the story with a Soliloquy explaining his cynical disillusionment with love. In The International Stud, set in 1971 , Arnold meets Ed and they fall in love. Ed, however, is uncomfortable with his Bisexuality ; he leaves Arnold for a girlfriend, who he subsequently marries. Fugue in a Nursery starts at Christmas 1973 , when Arnold meets the love of his life, Alan, a model. They settle down together, later spending a weekend with Ed and his wife, where their relationship is tested but endures. Eventually, they arrange to adopt a child together. At the end of the act, however, Alan is killed in a Homophobic Attack . Widows and Children First! is set in the spring of 1980 . Arnold's mother comes to visit from Florida and, after disapproving of Arnold's homosexuality and Adoption of a gay teenage son (David), as well as Arnold's use of a family burial plot for Alan, they have a series of arguments where Arnold demands that she accept him for who he is. The following morning, though, on her way to leaving back for Florida, they have a conversation where, for the first time, they seem to understand each other. AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
TRIVIA While Matthew Broderick played Arnold's lover Alan in the movie version, he originated the role of David, the adopted son when ''Torch Song'' began off-Broadway. He left to film the movie '' Max Dugan Returns '' before the show moved to Broadway's Little Theatre. This play brought a relative unknown Broadway Actress, Estelle Getty , to the critics attention. She played Arnold's disapproving mother in ''Widows and Children First!''. Her performance in this role soon led to her casting as Bea Arthur's critical yet loving Sicilian mother in ''The Golden Girls''. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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