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...Muppets grow ever more couth. First they danced Swine Lake with Ballet Superstar Rudolf Nureyev. Now, on Nov. 12, they will sing Pigoletto with the incomparable Beverly Sills going trill to trill against the divine Miss Piggy. So far, surprisingly, there have been no pyrotechnics of temperament between the two famous divas. "She may be a pig," says Sills of her costar, "but she's not a boar, although she is a theatrical ham of no small dimensions." Miss Piggy has said nothing about Bubbles; all she does is inscrutably smile about their upcoming duellet...
Until then, the office will continue to offer the kind of intense programs it has been coordinating for the last six years. Claire Malardi directs the developed dance program. Affiliated with the Cambridge School of Ballet, the program includes instruction in ballet, modern and jazz dance as well as concerts and workshops in dance. Although Malardi believes no credit for dance courses forces students to make dance a second priority to graded course work, she praises the program for supplying intellectual and philosophical instruction as well as many students' outstanding dedication...
...gold medal winner in the 1972 Olympics, the Soviet canoeing star was quickly granted political asylum in West Germany, and thus became the first of the well-known Soviet sport and dance personalities who have defected to the West in the past two months, a group that includes Bolshoi Ballet Star Alexander Godunov and Skaters Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova...
...staples of burlesque are in Sugar Babies. The attempts at strip tease are pretty stripless, but there are consolations even in that sector. In a tribute to Sally Rand, Barbara Hanks and the entire chorus manipulate their lushly feathered fans with the trancelike motion of peacocks performing a ballet. There is a howlingly funny dog act, durable through the decades, in which a sullenly uncooperative spaniel does no stunts while his agonizingly animated trainer (Bob Williams) covers for the beast...
...gets results. The San Francisco Opera has received 35,000 requests for the souvenir program it offered on a telecast of La Gioconda two weeks ago-some containing unsolicited contributions. To be sure, an episode of Mork & Mindy is seen by 44 million viewers, whereas a top-rated ballet or opera reaches only 8 million or 9 million. But this is easily twice the usual audience for a PBS show, and it is astronomical by the standards of a house like the Met that seats fewer than 4,000 a performance Somewhere among all those viewers out there...