t0rch song by harvey Fierstein

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.