The Nurses Ball on Normal Hospital has gone by many adjustments over the many years. Nevertheless, there are a couple of elements of the HIV/AIDS fundraiser/expertise present (inside the present) which have remained fixed. We’re speaking about the humanity and power that Lucy Coe, performed by Lynn Herring, brings to the gala.
TV Insider is bestowing Daytime Performer of the Week honors on Herring for her position as Lucy, the coronary heart and soul of the Nurses Ball.
It’d be straightforward to have Lucy make a couple of cursory opening remarks earlier than the singing and dancing start. However each GH and Herring’s Lucy ensure that the cause for the Nurses Ball isn’t glossed over regardless of the medical advances which have been revamped the many years.
“I simply need to share with you that I began the Nurses Ball 31 years in the past, and it was to boost consciousness and to boost funds in the combat towards HIV and AIDS,” started Lucy, referring to the first Nurses Ball in 1994. “And it was only a teeny little thought I had and I assumed it will be a one-time occasion, however it grew into this storied Port Charles establishment, and I’m very, very proud, proud of that,” an emotional Lucy continued. “That is what we do, you realize, all of us get collectively as a neighborhood and we do it for the better good.
“And I do know some of you’re most likely pondering,” Herring’s character added, “We don’t have to take action a lot with AIDS and HIV, however we actually do must proceed to combat the good combat, and in order that’s what we’re doing proper now.”
Lucy’s speech was crammed with real empathy. Herring has by no means forgotten the impression the ball made on her character. The Nurses Ball helped Port Charles residents see that there was extra to Lucy than her being a flighty social climber, who wed Normal Hospital docs Tony Jones (Brad Maule) and Alan Quartermaine (Stuard Damon).
Lucy was perpetually modified by changing into emotionally concerned in HIV/AIDS consciousness. Herring, who has been invited to reprise Lucy with a purpose to host this gala (and for different tales) because it was relaunched in 2013, by no means fails to remind viewers that HIV/AIDS continues to be a vital subject.
Herring brings emotional gravitas to Lucy’s ardour for the gala whereas additionally ensuring her character is a energetic and alluring host. This 12 months, the proficient Herring took half in a single of the present’s musical numbers, as Lucy danced to “These Boots Are Made for Strolling” together with Felicia (Kristina Wagner), Anna (Finola Hughes), and Spinelli (Bradford Anderson).
Whether or not she’s rustling up Port Charles residents to ensure they don’t neglect the place they’re in the expertise present’s lineup to holding the present transferring or making a lightning-fast costume change, Herring’s Lucy stays the glue and heartbeat of the Nurses Ball.
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The gala wouldn’t be the similar if there wasn’t an enormous emotional reveal. This 12 months, it was a devasted Gio (Giovanni Mazza) saying to attendees that his start dad and mom had been Brook Lynn Quartermaine (Amanda Setton) and Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna).
“Okay, didn’t I inform you guys something can occur at the Nurses Ball and it simply did however by no means concern the present will go on,” stated a stunned Lucy, as she figuratively faucet danced with a purpose to preserve the social gathering transferring.
Herring’s Lucy labored with practically the whole forged of characters who attended the Nurses Ball all through the week. That roster included a llama named Sebastian (GH labored in a plug for Llama rescue organizations throughout the gala) and 5 lovely children – Donna (Scarlett Spears), Wiley (Viron Weaver), Georgie (Lily Fisher), Scout (Cosette Abinante) and James (Gary James Fuller) – who closed out the expertise present.
Whereas there’s an previous adage about actors by no means performing with animals or children, not even the charming Sebastian or GH‘s subsequent technology may take away focus from Herring’s dynamic and nostalgic efficiency as lovable Lucy Coe.
The expertise at the Nurses Ball has by no means wavered (as evidenced by Mazza’s show-stopping violin enjoying). However the actuality is, in these economically difficult instances, all TV is going through manufacturing funds cutbacks. There aren’t as many acts, attendees, or tables however, the coronary heart and soul of the Nurses Ball – Herring’s Lucy – stays the similar.
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