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...problem was that when Mama made the decision, the boy was well along in childhood and already had a name: Franz Xaver. Wolfgang Jr. or just plain Franz? It was a dilemma that plagued the young Mozart most of his life (1791-1844). Having studied with such notables as Hummel and Salieri, he was a talented enough musician to make his piano debut at age 13. Yet Franz was not another Wolfgang and would not push himself. His mother Constanze, whose ambitious nature may be partly explained by the fact that her husband's death left her impoverished, came...
...basis of this evidence it would be easy to kiss off the play as just another sample of faddist effluvia. But Rabe has more gravity and force than that, as he has shown in his Viet Nam plays, Sticks and Bones and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. He has a wildly exhilarating, surrealistic humor that has not been exhibited in the U.S. theater since Edward Albee wrote The Sandbox, Zoo Story and An American Dream. He has a painful awareness of familial alienation, a kind of psychic wound that will not heal. His last play, a disaster, was significantly...
Viet Nam is a dark, broody obsession at the heart of David Rabe's three dramas. The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel turned a man into an infantry cog and spun him off to combat and death. In Sticks and Bones, which CBS refused to air after complaints from local stations (TIME, March 19), a blind veteran returned to his bland-as-cornflakes family and found that they could not stomach his 20-20 insight on the U.S. and the war. In The Orphan, at off-Broadway's Public Theater, Viet Nam is not actively present except...
...there is no sign of any let-up. Arthur W. Hummel Jr., deputy assistant Secretary of State told the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees on April 16 that the Nixon administration would continue to bomb until it achieves an effective cease-fire. Such a tactic, Hummel added, was "vindicated" in Laos. But according to Defense and State Department officials, the situation in Cambodia has greatly complicated the problem of working out a cease-fire because "the Khmer insurgent groups" are divided into factions: for and against Sihanouk and pro-Hanoi, pro-Moscow and pro-Peking...
...those who still participate in this pastime the up-coming week will bring three heavy-duty openings. Little Godfather A1 Pacino comes to the Loeb as Richard III. Pacino, who played in the Basic Training of Pavle Hummel downtown last spring, has a terrific stage presence that will soon become justifiably renowned. Stephen Sondheim and Hal Prince do Bergman in A Little Night Music, a new musical comedy. Previews start Saturday: Vogue Magazine predicts. "It's a winner." No, No Nanette is also in town. Since this dreary musical spectacle originally glorified New York and Atlantic City back...