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...stayed quiet. "I didn't feel free to speak at the time," he says. "I was too well trained." Instead, he wrote a veiled expose, a novel called The Rope- Dancer, in which the head of an American intelligence agency turns out to be working for the Russians. The book was not widely noticed, but the agency communicated its displeasure to the author. Undeterred, Marchetti decided in the spring of 1972 to tell all-or almost all. An enterprising literary agent, David Obst, who is also the agent for Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (see THE PRESS...
...little tale of a Moorish slave in 17th century Venice who loves a courtesan who loves his owner-prince, and who is eventually skewered to death by the prince's evil sisters in the Venetian equivalent to a voodoo ceremony. As the luckless, lovelorn slave, an expressive young dancer named Christopher Aponte is called upon to perform a sensuous duet with the courtesan's red cloak, leaving the unfortunate impression that he is secretly a cloth fetishist...
Interesting choreography by Bob Berger (who also supplies many laughs as Margo's gay hairdresser) provides an escape from the confines of book, music, and lyrics. A lithe dancer as well, Berger arranges both expansive and intimate numbers imaginatively. Several numbers are choreographed on multiple levels, which helps relieve congestion on the small Leverett stage...
...that painting, the Prince who smuggled it out of Italy almost landed in jail. Her Manets are grouped in one tiny, overcrowded room where they compete with William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over as a showplace for a Spanish dancer, painted by Sargent. The portrait Sargent did of her sits in the Gothic room on the third floor. Stained glass windows flank her, and a carved chest topped by a huge Bible lies before her like an altar. And, with an amazing amount of stupidity, she placed the only Vermeer...
...what she describes as her most ambitious season ever, a three-week repertory that will include six major Graham revivals plus six performances of Clytemnestra and a reworking of last season's Mendicants of the Evening. Graham will star in the gala opening-as a commentator, not a dancer...