![]() ![]() “I Was Better Last Night,” published by Knopf and described as “warm and enveloping” and full of “righteous rage” in a New York Times review, just released.Ĭan we get this out of the way at the top? What’s with your voice? ![]() Now, at 69, the multitalented Tony Award winner has added memoirist to his kaleidoscopic résumé. With trademark wit and empathy, he has written about himself in “Torch Song Trilogy” a father with a drag queen partner and a straight son in “La Cage Aux Folles” the bootlegging song and dance man Legs Diamond English factory workers and an unlikely firebrand in “Kinky Boots” heterosexual cross dressers in “Casa Valentina” striking newspaper boys in his Broadway adaptation of “Newsies” and a sissy duckling for an HBO animated special.Īnd he has revised the script for the musical “Funny Girl,” a show about Fanny Brice, an unlikely star like himself, which opens on Broadway this spring. The playwright, screenwriter, actor and drag performer has inhabited at least as many personalities as Walt Whitman. ![]()
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