6The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, March
'Torch Somg '
The opening of Harvey Fierstein's
Torch Song Trilogy finds homosexual
protagonist Arnold Beckoff backstage
in his dressing room at the gay bar
where he performs a drag act. He's
wearing a dress and a good deal of
makeup, but any initial shock or
discomfort the audience feels dissipates
as Arnold begins to discuss his frustra
tions with love and life. His desires
for the perfect lover, for respect are
essentially universal ones, and his self
effacing, cynical wit renders him a
charismatic, irresistable individual.
Indeed, playwright Fierstein's crown
ing triumph is his ability to exploit all
the humorous possibilities in the
stereotype Arnold represents yet never
let the audience lose sight of the fact
that Arnold is a strong individual who
ultimately defies convenient categoriza
tion. Torch Song Trilogy y a very fine
touring production of which was
presented by the Carolina Union in
Memorial Hall Tuesday night, is
Fierstein's unabashedly autobiographi
cal look at six years in Arnold's life.
The union of three one-act plays that
were originally produced independently
of each other off-off Broadway, Torch
Song is a long, involved work. While
its three segments mesh seamlessly, they
push the running time of Torch Song
to 3Vi hours. The play's significant
length works both for and against it.
It gives the audience a feeling of great
intimacy with the ever-engaging
Arnold, but it also exhausts Fierstein's
wit, too much of which pivots on
Arnold's verbal ploys and mock
expressions.
Largely for that reason, "Interna
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Song, is the most effective. It chronicles
Arnold's ill-fated love for Ed, a
befuddled bisexual. "Fugue in a
Nursery," which takes place one year
later at the upstate New York farm
where Ed lives with wife Laurel and
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where Arnold brings new lover Alan
for a weekend visit, is a tad tedious in
its resurrection of the first act's ques
tions concerning Ed's true feelings for
Arnold.
The story becomes more involving
again, however, in the final segment of
the play, "Widows and Children First!"
Here, Arnold confronts his mother, a
proud woman critical of Arnold's
lifestyle and his recent decision to adopt
a child.
Noteworthy of this touring produc
tion is its faithful adherence to the Tony
Award-winning Broadway incarnation
of Fierstein's opus. A less courageous
director might have trimmed the play's
length, cutting first the controversial
scenes in which Arnold's sexuality and
promiscuity are most apparent, but
Peter Pope has invested faith in the
progressive thinking of people outside
Manhattan and left the play intact. Even
the set was barely distinguishable from
the one employed in the Broadway
production.
The performances were generally
exceptional. As Arnold, P.J. Benjamin
merits special commendation for being
ah; to sustain an amazing level of
vitality and intensity throughout the
evening. On the road with this produc
tion for six months now, Benjamin
nevertheless gave a performance as fresh
and sincere as if he had just taken over
the role.
In fact, the entire cast worked well
to bring Torch Song to fiery life. An
alternately funny, poignant and pas
sionate examination of one individual's
struggle for contentment and respect,
Fierstein's celebrated play employs a
deftly light touch in challenging audien
ces to reexamine prejudices. The touring
company that brought Torch Song to
UNC Tuesday night presented this
challenge in a most entertaining fashion.
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Mike Cross will perform at 8 p.m. in Memorial
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Angeles to some of the toniest and most
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as she tries to find some way to get
rid of the jewels she is holding without
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Plaza 11 The Breakfast Club at 3:10, 5:10, 7:10
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Carolina Blue Beverly Hills Cop at 3, 5, 7:15
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Carolina White The Killing Fields at 2, 4:30, 7
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at midnight.
Ram I The Sure Thing at 7:05 and 9; weekend
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Ram 11 A Passage to India at 8; weekend
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Ram Lateshows The Song Remains the Same
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Carolina (Durham) Stop Making Sense at 3:30,
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Carolina (Durham) Lateshow The Rocky
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Compiled by Frank Bruni, arts editor.
Night9 humor
are good, but too often the film tries
to juice laughs out of bloody grue
sometasteless (take your pick)
murders. The moods become so con
fusing that the end effect of the film
is flat.
The leads, however, are appealing.
Pfeiffer, best known as the coke head
in Scarface, displays a Carole Lombard
flair for comedy, and Goldblum, who
usually is cast in supporting roles such
as the reporter in The Big Chill, is
perfect as the out-of-his-element leading
man.
It's too bad they have to cope with
such a muddled story and a pat ending.
Into the Night would be a lot more
appealing if Landis offered a door prize
to anyone who could correctly identify
all his bit players and maybe a bit of
the method behind this madness.
dation. He will play guitar and sing folk
songs in five languages. Tickets are
available at the Campus Y for $5, and
all proceeds will go to Ethiopian famine
victims.
A 10-mile Walk for Humanity will
be held Saturday. Sponsor cards are
available at the Campus Y, and reg
istration will be from 8-9 avm. Saturday:
On Tuesday, Danish citizen Jacob
Heldt will present his slide show,
"American Pictures," at 7 p.m. in
Memorial Hall. During the 1970s,
Holdt traveled more than 100,000 miles
across the nation photographing the
poverty-stricken. His free presentation
compares the lives of America's rich and
poor.
Capping off "People in Poverty" on
Wednesday at 8 p.m., a panel discussion
will look at poverty in Chapel Hill.
Panelists include N.C. Sen. Wilma
Woodard; Jean Wagner, Carrboro
Nutrition Site manager; Sue Baker of
the Inter-Faith Council; and Gloria
Williams, director of the Joint Orange
Chatham Community Action Center.
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