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...Opera Company (NBC, 2:30-5 p.m.). A repeat of Mozart's Don Giovanni, starring Leontyne Price and Cesare Siepi, with Peter Adler conducting...
Kwamina (book by Robert Alan Aurthur; music and lyrics by Richard Adler) is the name of the London-educated, medically trained son (Terry Carter) of a dying black African chief, who returns from England to break the hold of an evil witch doctor (Brock Peters) on his superstitious people. Defying racial taboos, he falls in love with a white doctor (Sally Ann Howes). At this point there are enough doctors on stage to perform much-needed surgery on the script, but they never operate...
...fitting place for them. The museum is a small and unpretentious institution, but it has taste and a purpose: to be a discerning gatherer of American representational art. In November it will exhibit 40-odd of its 292 paintings at Manhattan's Hirschl and Adler Galleries. The show, to be called "Montclair in Manhattan," should be as good a survey of nonabstract American art as New Yorkers will see all season...
...York, where he found even more boredom working as a sandhog on the new tube of the Lincoln Tunnel. Shifting to show business, he played tinkly-tonk cocktail-hour piano in a bin on 58th Street, saved enough money to take a six months' course at Stella Adler's acting school. Scoring minor successes on television (Studio One, Playhouse 90), he eventually won a screen test with Director Joshua Logan, who asked him to demonstrate his kissing talents, using Actress Jane Fonda as a prop. Beatty fastened himself to her like a hyperthyroid lamprey, ignoring cries...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying may reveal some of the inner secrets of its director, Abe Burrows, riding a score by Guys and Dolls' Frank Loesser (Oct. 14). Man at the crossroads in Africa is the subject of Kwamina, with score and lyrics by Richard Adler (Damn Yankees) (Oct. 23). Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean, drawn from the life of igth century Tragedian Edmund Kean and set in London's Drury Lane Theater, becomes a musical starring Alfred Drake (Nov. 2). The Affairs of Anatol, Arthur Schnitzler's sweet-cynical, turn-of-the-century portrait...