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Director Chris Arnold has several advantages in putting On the Town on the stage: a number of good voices and as many good actors, including some surprisingly competent bit players. He has an an imaginative and ambitious choreographer in Chet D'Elia, and in Judy Friedlander a costume mistress who evokes early Forties styles exceedingly well. But there are also disabilities. For one thing, the stage is not much larger than a hopscotch square, and it shows up any amateur faults in the show's drive for professional slickness...
Naturally the stage cramps D'Elia's choreography, which suffers from overambition. The dancers are good, being recruits from the Boston Conservatory and refugees from the Jazz Dance Workshop, but they have so much complex work to do in this ballet-heavy musical that they don't always move sharply or together. The girls tend to be more effective than...
...ARRANGEMENT by Elia Kazan. 444 pages. Stein...
...more important question is: How did Director Elia Kazan, whose America America was a moving and perceptive first novel, come to manufacture this muddled, massive mistake? Perhaps the answer lies in Kazan's past as an Academy Award-winning film maker. His publishers tried to make the most of it by throwing a splashy show-biz-style, pre-publication party aboard the liner France in New York Harbor, drawing everybody from Tennessee Williams to Andy Warhol; on paper, Kazan tries to make the most of it with splashy writing: dream sequences, yellowed letters, soliloquies to mirrors, toys...
...Elia Kazan and Robert Whitehead, its first directors, lasted one season. Then in 1965, the center brought in Herbert Blau and Jules Irving, two professors who had founded San Francisco's highly touted Actor's Workshop...