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...Linda Ronstadt & Co. put Pirates of Penzance on film...
...Linda Ronstadt...
...Linda, ever so slightly bored out of her mind, has gone stale in London toward the end of filming her first and maybe her last movie, Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. She knows it and she is sorry, because she loves Pirates, and Papp, and Director Wilfred Leach, and Cast Members Rex Smith (the seraphically stupid hero Frederic), Kevin Kline (the pirate king), George Rose (the major general), Angela Lansbury (the nursemaid Ruth) and Tony Azito (the double-jointed police sergeant...
...possible to present Gilbert and Sullivan in a way that is bright, fresh and respectful of tradition. That much has been proved by Producer Joseph Papp and Director Wilfred Leach of the New York Shakespeare Festival. Their Pirates of Penzance, with Pop Singers Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith, was a smash hit in Central Park and on Broadway. The Broadway production is still running, and the road company is drawing cheers in Chicago. Ronstadt and the rest are filming Pirates in London, and a British stage cast will open the Papp production at the Drury Lane Theater there...
...Linda Huey, chief organizer of the Four Point Channel Art Community Action Group, is less sanguine about the future. Sitting in her spacious studio-loft on the sixth floor of an almost deserted warehouse, just blocks away from the galleries, the voices her fears about what she calls "the largest art community Boston has ever seen"; "Initially, all us artists were attracted to the cheap space and perfect artistic environment found in old commercial buildings--things you just don't find in non-commercial sites. All we wanted to do was quietly work on our art by ourselves without being...