Word: lincoln
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When he became head of theater at Lincoln Center four years ago, Producer Joseph Papp promised the equivalent of a New Deal for drama in New York City. Last week, in a more somber mood, Papp, 55, announced he was quitting the center to concentrate on his experimental theaters in Lower Manhattan. In language that a bureaucrat might envy, he described his move as a "strategic withdrawal forward...
Most others would describe it as a retreat. Though Papp has raised his box office receipts at Lincoln Center to a current high of nearly $4 million, costs have risen alarmingly; this season's budget was $6.2 million, up more than a third from last season. Foundation and government support, on which Papp's ventures have always depended, has been shrinking. He has managed to cover his Lincoln Center deficits only by using the Broadway profits of his phenomenally successful A Chorus Line, which started off as an innovative musical in Papp's downtown Public Theater...
Anderson sang instead on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, before an audience...
Green said, "Washington freed the nation, Lincoln freed the slaves, and Collari freed the Indians...
...dances are jaggedly choreographed, incidental music has the tex ture of a blind fog, and the costumes might have been purchased on the Skid Row of the Casbah. The acting is on the high school epic level - strident, collision-prone and panicky. Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater ought to be declared a disaster area...