Word: planas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only the most prominent part of a fast-growing Latin presence in the U.S. theater. Actor Raul Julia, whose career expanded from low-budget off-Broadway shows into films, regularly returns to the New York stage to play such classics as The Tempest and Arms and the Man. Tony Plana and Nestor Serrano have given some of the most noteworthy off-Broadway and regional performances of recent years. And Choreographer Graciela Daniele, a Tony nominee for The Pirates of Penzance and Drood, turned to directing Borges-inspired musical theater in the off-Broadway hit Tango Apasionado...
...Designer Douglas Stein offered dazzling visual imagery, from a demented New Year's Eve ball to a row of garret apartments that appeared, suffused with golden light, halfway up the back wall of the stage. This technical facility never overwhelmed the text. The finale, when Figaro (Tony Plana) returned to join the junta and declared that the real measure of progress would be if the life of Almaviva (Olek Krupa) was spared, was a simply staged moment of glowing humanity, edged with doubt about whether Figaro's decency would prevail...
...film Sophie's Choice--is brilliant in the part, shifting from gawky innocence to sadder but wiser recollection and infusing it all with the self- intoxicating energy of the New Frontier. He is ably assisted by Polly Draper as a needling older sister and especially by Tony Plana as the most soulful and ultimately most disillusioned of the Cubans...