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Eaton Magoon Jr.’s short-lived 1972 Broadway musical drama 'Heathen' infamously collapsed and closed after just one official performance at the Billy Rose Theatre, remaining a top-tier legendary curiosity for scholars tracking lyric stage failures. The grand-scale, entirely through-sung narrative utilizes a non-linear, dual-timeline structure split across decades, unfolding inside Hawaii to track the profound cultural fractures and star-crossed, forbidden romances that explode when the initial American Christian missionaries arrive in 1819 to convert a fiercely resistant native population, contrasted with a contemporary 1970s lineage. Directed by Lucia Victor, the original production starred Russ Tamblyn.

