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...performances these days are getting more youthful all the time. Raised on TV and movies, a visually oriented younger generation finds something in the spectacle of the dance that turns on the mind's eye. Following a recent performance in Manhattan of John Butler's Ceremony, two flower children stopped the choreographer on the street. "You Butler?" said one. "Saw your ballet. You tell it like it is, man." Says Butler: "It was the best compliment I've ever been paid...
...unhappy compromise. There are not enough teachers or schools and efforts toward educating adults have been generally spotty with discouraging results. One of the greatest problems has proved to be "the follow-up." People may attend the sessions, but, as with the Long Island house-wife after her flower arranging course, there is serious doubt that much will be remembered six months later...
...simple bourgeois shot of the Prudential looking calm like Sunday morning and the sports page. On the pavement three dark figures from an ominous Other World spin a tiny street caper. Cut away and up through telephone wires to a rolling grey sky. Then abruptly to a bloodless flower child running running running along Graduate-white walls, down the empty spaces of a railroad yard, into some urban junkland moor, all this under a categorically blue sky and the electronic fallout of Streetchoir music tortured backwards through a tape-recorder. A conversation is heard. The flower child finds a blackjacket...
...launch into "The Girl That I Marry" at the smallest provocation. Carole Bogard's Micaela had lots of potential but her lively soprano couldn't compensate for the inherent dullness of the role. Glade Peterson's powerful and expressive tenor seemed perfect for Don Jose, but he muffed the Flower Song and never fully recovered...
...gimmicks used is a dress made of material with a stock-certificate pattern. As another example, onto the stage strolls a leggy model wearing one of the latest styles in stockings. Says the fashion commentator: "Aren't they lovely? These are opaque crepes by Hanes called Flower Pow." At which point the Merrill Lynch man interjects: "Hanes-now there's an interesting stock! Our research division gives it a good quality rating and Hanes's outlook is improved by the demand for panty hose...