Word: aladdin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WORD GOT AROUND last week after Aladdin's messy opening night that the show resembled a high school pageant, but even in its more advanced state. Timothy Mayer's "work in progress" has the clumsy charm of an exemplary school production: friends, peers, teachers cavorting good-naturedly, often unsteadily, sometimes bursting out in wondrous and unexpected ways: the audience supplying a liberal amount of sympathy and imagination: and even the most accomplished contributions kept modest and self-effacing. It's a deceptively lumbering production, and not an inappropriate one. Aladdin in Three Acts is Mayer's wise and innocent paean...
...most notably the clear-eyed, ironic Scholar Wu, who wanders around in portable stocks with a sign that says "Drunkard" draped around his neck--this is the tale of a decent, confused lad, whose body is "a tent of exile" from society. Scolded by his mother for his idleness. Aladdin is dispatched by a wicked magician to an enchanted cave, where he is to fetch a magic lamp. Aladdin winds up hanging onto the lamp, using its genie to help win the hand of a Sultan's beautiful daughter. The magician, of course, steals the lamp, along with the Princess...
...less thoughtful hands the tale of Aladdin has been a dandy thriller, "an adolescent's dream of revenge," as Mayer points out in a program note. But Mayer eliminates much of the suspense: Aladdin's difficulties are solved handily by two genies, and the lad swiftly and stoically executes the evil magician, who has been drugged by the Princess. So what's the point? Aladdin, the Sultan explains at the end of the play, got lucky. But he measured up to his luck, he gave it a good home. Throughout the play. Aladdin's spirit is large and independent enough...
...stage show they are currently touring around the U.S. is a professional and tightly structured turn that could have come straight from the Aladdin, where, indeed, they have appeared eight times. The next time they get to Vegas, the Doobies can look down and see, right at the edge of the ringside seats, Paul Lofree, not caring a bit. And probably singing along...
...Joanna Carson was at the Beverly Hills Health Club for Women. From there she phoned her brother Peter Ulrich in West Seneca, N.Y., and told him about the casino plan. Ulrich quickly bought 2,000 shares of National Kinney, which he sold over the next three months, after the Aladdin-Carson announcement, at a $4,228 profit. Joanna Carson also told Emily Johns, the health club's membership sales director, who bought 1,000 shares of National Kinney the next morning and sold them several days later for a $1,260 gain...