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Married. Joseph Papp, 54, theatrical impresario and producer of Hair, That Championship Season, Much Ado About Nothing and A Chorus Line; and Gail Merrifield, 40, great-great-granddaughter of Actor-Assassin John Wilkes Booth and director of play development at Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
Danced by a second-rate cast, Hamlet Connotations would seem much ado about very little. But the opening-night A.B.T. quartet made it worth watching - such is the strength and dynamism of these dancers' stage personalities. Bare to the waist and clad only in white tights, Baryshnikov offered a tortured Hamlet rather than a brooding one, all quicksilver passion. Kirkland's Ophelia was an innocent, ethereal waif - bruised and bewildered. In a pas de deux with Baryshnikov, their bodies seemed perfectly attuned, suggesting that incandescent union of talents and temperaments they have displayed as partners in better works...
...show time in Helsinki. This week's summit spectacular might be titled Goodbye to World War II. Others thought of it as Dreams of Détente. Still others would prefer to call it Much Ado About Nothing, The Grand Illusion or perhaps even The Decline of the West. A few days before the show opened, the conference received some bad reviews from critics who labeled it The Betrayal of Eastern Europe. But fortunately they will not be present at the première to put a damper on the show...
Four years ago Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences enrolled more blacks than it did last year, or this year, or any year before or after those rebellious days at the end of the 1960s. Despite the great ado about recruiting minorities and establishing Afro-American Studies, the plain fact is that classes entering the Graduate School recently have been "whiter" than those of some earlier years. Why has Harvard's attempt at integration failed? Has there in fact been a genuine attempt at integration...
...probable that Shakespeare wrote the play for an important Twelfth Night entertainment at Queen Elizabeth's court. The year of its first performance is in some dispute, but such a superlative achievement had to have come after the two other romantic comedies of about the same period, Much Ado and As You Like It, which are mere student exercises by comparison...