5/15/2023 0 Comments Torchlight trilogy![]() ![]() Urie reads so exultantly big in this production that you almost forget the man who indelibly created Arnold. He may also cause you to shed a few sentimental tears, but isn’t that what you expect of a drama queen? And wait until you meet Arnold’s mother, who is played, if you please, by Mercedes Ruehl. And, as embodied by Michael Urie in the happy revival of Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song,” which opened on Thursday night, Arnold is just the guy and gal to pull you out of your election-season weariness. ![]() His undramatic name is Arnold Beckoff, though he also goes by the more promising moniker of Virginia Ham. That’s why I am advising you to make the acquaintance of a grade-A specimen of this spectacular genus, whose presence is overflowing the Helen Hayes Theater. But, ah, in fiction - in books and film, and especially on the stage - these same creatures can be an energizing joy, as stimulating as four shots of espresso. In life, drama queens, those extravagantly emotional beings who suck up all the oxygen in a room, are fatiguing souls, to be avoided at all costs when one is tired. ![]()
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