COMING FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The Lexington Downtown Public Library
Farish Theater
Directed by Joe Ferrell
Featuring :
Wesley Nelson as Arnold Beckofff
Sherry Jackson Thompson as Ma Beckoff
Daniel Ellis as Ed Reiss
Wylie Caudill as Alan
Malachi Bullock as David
Baelyn Lindfords as Laurel
In Torch Song – the two-act revival of Harvey Fierstein’s award-winning Torch Song Trilogy – the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City, is dramatized throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. Told with a likable, human voice, Torch Song follows Arnold’s odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect.