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CONCORD is a bit farther down the road, past vegetable and cider stands and Louisa May Alcott's house...
...opener last week proved the buyer's wisdom. The show was introduced by a miniskirted blonde, one Louisa Moritz, a sort of Goldie Hawn with a Judy Holliday accent. Louisa sashayed through the rest of the program all too obviously deepening her rapport with the host. Next, in what is to be the series' standard format. Namath and Schaap quipped and kibitzed through film clips of the Jets' latest game. Dick reveled in the miscues, while Joe extolled the "pure grace" of his own passing style. Namath was more modest about his fluffs as a TV rookie...
CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Sixty-three young dancers from the Children's Ballet Theater in a new version of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, choreographed by Christine Neubert. The original score is by Robert Maxwell; Geraldine Page narrates...
This cast does a fairly solid job. Jean Richards is perfect as the whimsical girl, Louisa, falling in love. So is David C. Burrows, her father, bumbling through his own petty confusion. My favorite in the show was Johnny Armen as the Indian, Mortimer. Dressed in long underwear, tennis shoes, and an Indian wig, he played the evil forces of the world that ensnarl the boy and girl--an Egyptian, a Venetian, a Roman, and a Pirate (as well as the Rapist's Assistant). While he whips the boy in one of the tableau scenes, he keeps looking...
...PROBLEM with this production of The Fantasticks is the lead. Lang des Jardins, who plays both the narrator and El Gallo, the cowboy-rapist who tries to steal away Louisa's heart, is bad. He has a wonderful John Raitt "MOOOAHHHH" voice, but he moves in an obscene, unctuous way across the stage...