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...Antonio Salieri, the 18th century Italian composer whom Peter Shaffer resurrected in fictional form for his 1979 play Amadeus, one peculiar genius was even more frightening: a precious gift and a malicious joke from God. The creature's name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-"Spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine Mozart!" as the play's Salieri, his contemporary and rival, calls him. "I had heard a voice of God," the Italian mutters after listening to a Mozart adagio, "and it was the voice of an obscene child!" Salieri carried a double curse: to appreciate beyond pain or pleasure Mozart...
...troupe will tour Latin America this spring, Western Europe in the summer. Next fall will see the open-ing of Milos Forman's film Amadeus, for which she created the dances. Next year she will make a full-length work for a European company, inspired by the early ballets of Mozart's time. Before that will come a June collaboration with Jerome Robbins for New York City Ballet. All of Broadway has its eye on this matchup of two tough-minded show-biz smoothies. So far Robbins has made only one suggestion: that the drop curtain...
Hall plans three new productions at the National: Coriolanus, Animal Farm as a musical and, possibly, another play from Peter Shaffer. (Hall staged Amadeus in both London and New York.) Meantime, he is happy to see the three auditoriums in the National complex filled to 80% of capacity. "I've always been a businessman as well as trying to be an artist. And I do love running things." With his $71,000-a-year contract at the National renewed for five years, Sir Peter seems destined to remain a lively British monument. Just like Nelson's Column...
Hamill, 31, is trying to relieve his Star Wars frustrations on the stage. He has been playing the part of Mozart in Amadeus for 5½ months, first on tour and now on Broadway. Like all the other actors, Hamill is devoted to Lucas, but he admits that "these movies didn't give me much pride in my craft. I had to act onstage to get that. Special-effects movies are hard on actors. You find yourself giving an impassioned speech to a big lobster in a flight suit. Only later do you see how silly it looks...
...Polish-born Director Roman Polanski, who had seen her naked in the Operetta role. He had been impressed, he said last week: "Not many young actresses are capable of doing that, but Joanna had the looks and the guts." Now he invited her to see his Paris production of Amadeus, and got her a modeling job. He advised her to learn English and give Hollywood a try. Within a few weeks, still without anything definite in mind, she wandered...