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...blues-flavored gem and, incidentally, the first symphony ever written by a black American. Last week in Jackson, Miss., the only professional black opera company in the U.S., a 3½-year-old group called Opera/South, presented the world premiere of Still's 33-year-old opera A Bayou Legend...
...least, is under any obligation to take the thing seriously, so the first thing to do is thank God that this is not last year, and that a plot, whatever its faults, exists this year, which is more than could be said for last year's Bewitched Bayou. There is not now and never has been any danger of any Pudding script being printed in an anthology of great plays or musicals, but in some years the demands of writing an original script are harder on the Pudding than in others. This year Mark O'Donnell wrote a script...
...JOHN and ORCHESTRA LUNA-- I do not know enough about the music of the Bayou or of the French Caribbean to demystify Dr. John's rhythmic rock with roots in the spirit world. Friends who like theater rock listen to him continually. Orchestra Luna, another local group, plays second bill...
...Agee's screenplay of C.S. Forrester's novel almost rivals Katherine Hepburn's I overheard an unscrupulous wretch in the dining hall trying to start a rumor that the novel was actually by Stephen Foster, and was originally called Mississippi Queen, and started out with a man dying of Bayou fever, and that Bogart's ship was the Monitor...
...hours after mailorder tickets were put on sale, more than 5,000,000 letters, each requesting an average of three tickets, inundated post offices along the tour route. One trade paper calculated that 7.5% of the population of the U.S. had requested tickets to see Dylan and his bluesy bayou back-up group, the Band. In Los Angeles County, the 18,700-seat Forum received about 300,000 ticket requests. In New York City, Dylan followers seeking 12:01 a.m. postmarks on first-come, first-served mail orders created frantic midnight rushes. Frazzled promoters in San Francisco, faced with...