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...pickings are slim for would-be U.S. producers, the diet is considerably more nourishing for audiences. Stargazers can see Eartha Kitt in a revamped version of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies, Wendy Hiller aglow in the American comedy Driving Miss Daisy and, starting next month, Rex Harrison in a revival of The Admirable Crichton. Those with a taste for undeservedly obscure classics can see two sprightly, acerbic Restoration comedies at R.S.C. headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon, George Farquhar's The Constant Couple and William Wycherley's The Plain Dealer, plus Noel Coward's Easy Virtue, ably done in the West...
There probably would be less complaint if amplification were not so apparent-and so annoying. But it usually is both. The sound system of the 1978 Eartha Kitt musical Timbuktu! sounded like a tinny radio with failing batteries. The Pirates of Penzance, which has a better system, is nonetheless obviously miked. Then there are the mistakes that give soundmen high-volume nightmares. When Dreamgirls opened, an actor's body microphone jammed another, set on the same frequency, in a neighboring theater, where The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was playing. (A wireless body mike, hidden on a performer...
...Broadway producer whose 13 New Faces revues helped launch the careers of scores of stars; after a long illness; in New York City. Sillman's satirical shows introduced such hit tunes as Love Is a Simple Thing, and such performers as Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Imogene Coca and Eartha Kitt...
...Eartha Kitt, singer, on why she is moving from the West Coast to the East: "Everyone's on cocaine or marijuana. There's no one out there for me to play with any more...
...probably print without the pressmen, but not as long as the key deliverers continue to support the walkout. So until the two sides settle, New Yorkers will have to depend on out-of-town papers and radio or television stations to sate their appetite for news. And comics. Soupy? Eartha...