Harvey Evans Love Thread

This picture makes me happy. Harvey Evans makes me happy. Post here if Harvey Evans makes you happy too.

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Harvey Evans in Follies

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Harvey on the cover of After Dark, a seminal moment...

Harvey Evans in Applause with Lauren Bacall

http://youtu.be/xRikWbT6WG0

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Harvey and Kurt Peterson and Virginia Sandifur and Marti Rolph perform "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow"/"Love Will See Us Through" on the David Frost tribute to the original production of Follies

http://youtu.be/UbLo8ALc1WA

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Faced with such Loreleis, what man can moralize?

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Even Steve loves Harvey Evans!

I have never met Harvey, but I'm an admirer of his talent and the stories he's told during those Dancers Over 40 tributes to Michael Bennett, Gwen Verdon, and the lot.

Is he retired from performing eight shows a week? I remember that he was in the 2002 revival of OKLAHOMA!, but has he done any B'way or Off B'way stuff since aside from benefits and solo acts?

I worked with Harvey years ago and he was an absolute doll!

(He also very nearly stole our production of SHOW BOAT in the relatively thankless role of Frank.)

One of the most talented and charismatic performers I've ever known.

Thanks to Pal Joey for the photos!

Updated On: 11/20/13 at 08:29 PM

I FORGOT about his role as a sweep in MARY POPPINS.

I think Walt Disney may have been more anti-semetic in the 40s and 50s at the height of the so-called "red scare." The Sherman Brothers were Jewish, too, and had a long and happy professional and personal relationship with him. I'm not denying Uncle Walt's bigotry, just saying it may have cooled over time.

Here's a picture of Van Johnson (Bigley) and Harvey Evans (Finch) in a 1977 summer stock production of HOW TO SUCCEED... at Milwaukee's Melody Top Theatre. Enjoy!

Love Harvey Evans! I first saw him when I was in High School, as George in the famous production of "Our Town" starring Henry Fonda (and just about everyone else). He was devastatingly moving and sweet in it. And then Follies, and Dames at Sea, etc. and finally I got to meet him at a brunch one time. One of the nicest, funniest, most delightful people working in theatre. I am happy to have spoken with him on several other occasions as well. I celebrate anything Harvey Evans does!

Love Harvey Evans! Would love to cross paths again -- it's been 30 years since he starred in the "Barnum" tour.

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I toured in La Cage with Harvey back in '87. I was as green as could be, my first big tour. He was so kind and encouraging and down to earth. I've never worked with someone so accomplished with so little ego on display. I learned so much from him, most of all to remember, in spite of all the pressure to be good and get it all right, to have fun being on stage, which he clearly did every night. I never once saw him phone-in a performance.

I was scared out of my wits in rehearsal. He knew it, and he told me that he was too. I was like "Really? Mr. million Broadway shows/Sondheim writes songs specifically for your voice (Follies)/major movie musicals/danced with Gwen Verdon on Broadway and TV?" He told me to work hard and learn my show, but also to embrace that fear and to find the guts to bring my real, vulnerable self on stage. Watching him in rehearsal and in performance, I then saw that was indeed what he did. It's what made him such an engaging, warm and authentically human presence on stage, on top of all that triple-threat talent.

He was unfailingly generous to everyone with whom he shared that stage, old pro or neophyte, glittery opening night in Boston, or Wednesday matinee in Bloomington, Indiana.

I will always adore Harvey. He is, as they say, the real deal.