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| KING OF HEARTS Role: Johnny Able Production Info: October 1988 at Forum Theatre Group (NJ) Director: Peter J. Loewy Choreographer: June Tartaglia Musical Director: David Wolfson |
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| Reviews |
| THE COURIER-NEWS, October 1988 by Jean Ogden "Gerard Lebeda is superb as the soldier with a naive wit and a voice that soars with the lively sentiment of the score. As average Johnny Perkins, he hasn't done much for the war effort, or in his life as a high school geometry dropout. He's the kind of wistful failure who wins your heart. And when he is crowned the patients' King of Hearts with a slapstick coronation that might have been staged by the Marx Brothers, he assumes a nobility that's both funny and touching." |
| THE HOME NEWS, October 9, 1988 by Steven Davidson "In Gerard Lebeda, the Forum has found a prince of the theater to make their King. His voice is robed in purple satin, his feet could out-dance Cinderella, his instincts for romantic musical leads seem to come from Merlin himself." |
| Cast: Stephen J. Burns (Genevieve), Jim Foley, Jim Frazier (The Duke), Gerard Lebeda (Johnny Able), Susie Paplow (Juenefille), Rose Pedone (The Duchess), Bill Perlach, David Perry, Mark Pinheiro (The Bishop), Rob Reynolds (Demosthenes), Holly Rhodes (Madam Madeleine)), Andrew W. Sellon (The Barber), June Tartaglia, Vicki Tripodo |
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| The inmates of St. Anne's have found their King of Hearts. Pictured: Gerard Lebeda and company |
| Gerard Lebeda |
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| Juenefille (Susie Paplow) explains to Johnny (Gerard Lebeda) what it's like to be an orphan who has forgotten her name and lives to dance.. Pictured: Gerard Lebeda and Susie Paplow |
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| THE PRINCETON PACKET, October 1988 by Stuart Duncan "Gerard Lebeda, who was so impressive in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Franklin Villager's seasons ago, is a marvelous Johnny (the soldier)." |
| THE DAILY RECORD, October 14, 1988 by Simon Saltzman "...Gerard Lebeda has a natural flair for the Eddy Cantor-esque brand of vaudeville performing." |
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