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Bella Bella

By: Harvey Fierstein
Narrated by: Harvey Fierstein
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Four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein takes on New York City’s very own political firebrand, Bella Abzug, in his new raucous, heart-rending, and absurdly humorous solo show. Set in 1976, on the eve of her bid to become New York State’s first female senator, Bella Bella finds this larger-than-life, truth-slinging, groundbreaking, hat-wearing icon squirreled away in the bathroom of a midtown hotel awaiting that night’s election results while a coterie of family and celebs await her entrance. Directing is Kimberly Senior (The Niceties).

©2020 Harvey Fierstein (P)2020 AO Media LLC Drama & Plays New York Literature & Fiction Funny Political Witty Women's Fiction Heartfelt Fiction Feel-Good Biographical Fiction Inspiring Biography Genre Fiction

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Our favorite moments from Bella Bella

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"Welcome to Bathroom Politics!"
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"Women make up the majority of the voting population."
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"But I can dream..."
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  • Bella Bella
  • "Welcome to Bathroom Politics!"
  • Bella Bella
  • "Women make up the majority of the voting population."
  • Bella Bella
  • "But I can dream..."

About the Creator and Performer

Harvey Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Best Lead Actor in a Play. He also garnered Tony nominations for Best Book for Newsies, Best Book for Kinky Boots, and Best Play for his play Casa Valentina. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
Fierstein has also had a successful career in film and television. He played Robin Williams’s brother in Mrs. Doubtfire, voiced a character in Disney’s classic animated feature, Mulan, and wrote and voiced the lead in his own children’s feature, The Sissy Duckling, for which he won the Humanitas Prize for Children’s Animation in 1999. He also won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for narrating the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk. Fierstein starred in Martin Sherman’s Gently Down the Stream at the Public Theater this past spring. Currently, his play Torch Song is playing on Broadway.

Fascinating History • Informative Content • Exceptional Performance • Educational Insights • Inspiring Biography

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This is one of the best hours I've spent since we have been confined because of civil. I fell in love with Bella and Harvey has always been one of my heroes. A ++

Excellent Performance

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You don’t have to be Jewish or from New York or agree with her politics to marvel at the force of nature that was “Battling Bella.”

Powerful and timely.

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Delivered as only Harvey could, this poignant take on history was like sitting with an old friend discussing the last few years in the US. It actually gives me hope. It truly brought a great sense of humor together with important lessons we needed so desperately to be reminded of because we as a society are forgetting these lessons that past generations have fought and died for. I would love to see a second part of this released someday. A second installment.

I didn't want it to end!! The Story We Need!

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there should be a complete section for the dramatized works of harvey feirsteinto include torch song trilogy and cas de…

more harvey please!

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Bella Abzug kicks a$$! This audiobook was phenomenally written and performed! Thank-you Harvey Fierstein!

Kicks A$$

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