{"id":28833,"date":"2025-04-05T04:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/sa\/25-days-of-tonys-torch-songs-harvey-fierstein-and-richie-jackson\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T04:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:24:03","slug":"25-days-of-tonys-torch-songs-harvey-fierstein-and-richie-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/25-days-of-tonys-torch-songs-harvey-fierstein-and-richie-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Days of Tonys: Torch Song&#8217;s Harvey Fierstein and Richie Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a title=\"Video\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/category\/video\">Video<\/a><span>25 days of Tonys: <i>Torch song<\/i>&#8216;s Harvey Fierstein and Richie Jackson<\/span><span>Why producer Jackson had to bring <i>Torch song <\/i>Back to Broadway &#8211; and why Fierstein allows him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8216;Many artists paint the same subject over and over,&#8217; <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/harvey-fierstein-vault-0000025807\">Harvey Fierstein<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/how-harvey-fierstein-learned-to-pass-on-the-reins-for-broadways-torch-song\" target=\"_blank\">told Playbill in October<\/a>\u201cBut theater artists <i data-rte2-sanitize=\"italic\">really <\/i>Do it. We go out there for this purpose to make this one best. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the latest effort by Fierstein is possible to his best as the revival of him <i>Torch Song Trilogy<\/i>rename simply <i>Torch song<\/i>was nominated for a Tony award for the best revival of a play. According to the new judgment of the Tony Award Committee, Fierstein itself is eligible in the category with the main producer <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/richie-jackson-vault-0000029479\">Richie jackson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Richie was brought to the show when he was 17 by his mother,&#8221; Fierstein tells Playbill in the video above. &#8220;Part of the reason was the scene between the mother and Arnold. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>The play has changed the life of the producer, and now he hopes that it has changed a few more. &#8220;The theater changes knowledge in understanding,&#8221; says Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>The revival was opened in the Helen Hayes Theater, where the original Broadway Run (who plays Fierstein) opened in 1982. Directed by Mois\u00e9s Kaufman, this production Michael Urie as Arnold Beckoff, Ward Horton as Ed, Michael Hsu Rosen, as Alan, Roxanna Hope Radja as Laurel, Mercedes Ruehl as Mrs. Beckoff, and<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full video interview above!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video 25 days of Tonys: Torch song&#8217;s Harvey Fierstein and Richie Jackson Why producer Jackson had to bring Torch song Back to Broadway &#8211; and why Fierstein allows him. &#8216;Many artists paint the same subject over and over,&#8217; Harvey Fierstein told Playbill in October\u201cBut theater artists really Do it. We go out there for this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}