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Tom Hulce, fresh off his success with Amadeus, played the lead Ned Weeks, a kind of alter ego of Kramer. The two also took the play to London a year later. The Normal Heart took on a life of its own, never completely disappearing from one stage or another all around the world. A 2011 revival won Tonys for Ellen Barkin and John Benjamin Hickey. And in 2014 the TV adaptation of The Normal Heart, produced and directed by Ryan Murphy, won an Emmy for best TV movie, starring Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello, and Julia Roberts. It was nominated for TV Movie or mini-series at the Golden Globes and won Matt Bomer a best-supporting actor Golden Globe.

Lin- Manuel Miranda: “Don’t know a soul who saw The Normal Heart and came away unmoved. What an extraordinary writer, what a life.” And Elton John wrote on Twitter: “We have lost a giant of a man who stood up for gay rights like a warrior.”