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Its my biggest problem because I have never been young and beautiful.

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Oh, Ive been beautiful.

And Lawd knows Ive been young.

But never the twain have met.

Drag is that self-protecting, self-celebrating serious playfulness made physically manifest.

You think thats what we brought you into the world for?

Believe me, if Id known I wouldnt have bothered.

Its a horrible moment, only made more painful by Mas immediate, if not clear-eyed, remorse.

But you wont let me.

Not that Fierstein makes a very strong case for Eds actually having any interest in women.

Right, taken from the name of a real-life Greenwich Village bar of the 70s).

Ed asks him in Play No.

2a countrysidemenage a quatrecalled Fugue in a Nurseryand Alan shrugs coquettishly: Arnold says I havent.

Torch Songis at the Helen Hayes Theater.