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At all times, Michael's actors give him admirable support. Tigar as Jaques is a large figure, touching and funny, and even his lugubrious soliloquy comes off well in the end. Newenhuyse's Adam is far funnier than it is wrong-headed. Norma Levin is a strong and charming Rosalind...
But in their performance of Richard Strauss's Serenade for Thirteen Winds they sounded and appeared every bit as unrehearsed as the full Band. This work of the sixteen-year-old Strauss is a straightforward exercise in the academic, conservatory style of the late nineteenth-century. The opening theme is...
THE TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. Wole Soyinka, the foremost black African playwright, is being detained in a Nigerian jail, but his two one-acters have traveled well to Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scott, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets...
HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP! by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row; $4.95). The leading American children's writer has turned out another delightful story this one about Jennie, a discontented terrier who leaves the lap of luxury to become an actress with the World Mother Goose Theater.
ARTHUR'S WORLD by Mischa Richter (Doubleday; $2.95). Arthur one day decides to see the world and proceeds to build an amazing watchtower in order to see over his backyard fence. His world, drawn by The New Yorker cartoonist, is both instructive and delightful.