Word: hearning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...robust as it should be. (Injured during the dress rehearsal, he played the crippled hero on real crutches.) Individual honors go to Mezzo-Soprano Florence Quivar as the soulful Serena and the dashing Gregg Baker as the villainous Crown. The production, designed and directed by Robert O'Hearn and Nathaniel Merrill, is handsome, if not as spectacular as Douglas W. Schmidt's Radio City triumph. Arthur Mitchell, director of the Dance Theater of Harlem, assisted Merrill with the vivid fights and crowd scenes and staged the dances, underscoring the slice-of-life vigor that is the opera's chief asset...
...below par, and neither of the principal singers in Lakmé had the proper French timbre or sense of style for their roles. Sweeney Todd is more gruesomely appealing in a smaller house, and the City Opera's lead cast does nothing to erase the memory of George Hearn and Angela Lansbury...
...Cage aux Folies. The one megabit musical in a torpid Broadway season, Harvey Fierstein's gay valentine boasts a spectacular turn by George Hearn, as a Saint-Tropez drag queen, and surefire Jerry Herman songs that might have been composed on a calliope...
...worth it. Hearn's bravura performance is one of the marvels of recent theater seasons. An actor who has been in 115 plays but never quite achieved stardom, he has now strutted to the top. If it is exciting to see a young actor leap forward, it is even more so to see one in mid-career suddenly show the enormous range of his talents...
...major achievements seem more so. Despite its gay theme, it is a sentimental show that extols the values of love, honor and fidelity to home and family; consequently, in both Boston and New York City, it seems to have drawn audiences that are largely straight. In Barry and Hearn, moreover, it boasts what may be the most romantic team of the year...