He began working in the theater as a founding member of The Gallery Players of Park Slope before being cast in Andy Warhol's only play, Pork. He grew up Jewish, and has said he doesn't believe in God, but "I pray three or four times a day." įierstein attended High School of Art and Design and received a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1973. įor his role on the television show Cheers, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.įierstein was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Jacqueline Harriet ( née Gilbert), a school librarian, and Irving Fierstein, a handkerchief manufacturer. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. Fierstein also wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning musicals Kinky Boots, Newsies, and Tony Award-nominated, Drama League Award-winner A Catered Affair. He received his third Tony Award, Best Book of a Musical, for the musical La Cage aux Folles and his fourth, the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. Fierstein won two Tony Awards, Best Actor in a Play and Best Play, for Torch Song Trilogy.
Doubtfire, Independence Day, and as the voice of Yao in Mulan and Mulan II. He is best known for his theater work in Torch Song Trilogy and Hairspray and movie roles in Mrs. Living theater has always been my life’s goal.Harvey Forbes Fierstein ( / ˈ f aɪər ˌ s t iː n/ FIRE-steen born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. I’ve asked Carole Rothman to call the evening simply Torch Song, and let’s see what truths we can preserve, what histories we can rediscover and what futures we can forge together. Even the most faithful stage re-creations are tinted by the moment in which they are experienced. Theater is a living, breathing entity, and so are audiences. I would never think of rewriting the plays but have given him a newly edited text that reconceives the way I want the story told. “I’ve been encouraging director Moisés Kaufman to look at the play with fresh eyes.
“’Thirty-five years? I thought, ‘It’s time!’” Fierstein said in the announcement. Prior to Broadway, the show ran off-Broadway at the Richard Allen Center, produced by the Glines, and also at La Mama and the Actor’s Playhouse. It also was turned into a 1988 film, starring Fierstein, Matthew Broderick and Anne Bancroft, directed by Paul Bogart.
It won Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play (Fierstein) and ran 1,222 performances. Torch Song Trilogy opened on Broadway at the Little Theatre (now the Helen Hayes Theatre, which is owned by Second Stage and is being upgraded and refurbished) on June 10, 1982.
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