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...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...
...lover for 20 years. Years ago, just to see what all the heterosexual fuss was about, Georges (Gene Barry) spent a few hours of passion with a showgirl. From that brief union came a son, Jean-Michel, who has lived ever since with Georges and Albin (George Hearn) in an apartment next door to La Cage...
...Hearn, 48, who has been married and divorced three times, had the same fears as Barry, but nonetheless agreed to put on full female regalia for his audition. "When George walked out, he looked like Arlene Dahl opening at the Latin Quarter," says Producer Allan Carr. "He plopped himself on top of the piano, crossed his legs and sang My Heart Belongs to Daddy. There was a kind of triumph and electricity to the way he did it. We never considered anyone else." Still, it took Hearn eight weeks to learn to sing while simultaneously putting on makeup...
...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...