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...hard to think of Darci slowing her pace. She often works from 10 in the morning until midnight (class, rehearsals, performance) and then forgets to pick up her paycheck. In her apartment near Lincoln Center, her only companion is her cockatoo Lulu, though her parents and brothers visit...
...scheduled season by labor disputes, which were finally settled three weeks ago. Looking over his plans, Music Director James Levine concluded that "the losses for the future seem remarkably small." The house reopens next Wednesday, and the Met will begin performing such works as Alban Berg's Lulu, Tristan und Isolde and-holiday-minded families will be happy to hear-Hansel and Gretel. Two of the four new productions originally announced for this season-Queen of Spades and Così Fan Tutte-have been postponed; La Traviata and Parade, a trio of one-acters by Satie, Ravel and Poulenc...
...Brecht might be said to be the cynosure for the contemporary theatre, so is Wedekind, as Brecht's mentor, a star ascendant in the night sky. This is Wedekind year at the Loeb; the American Rep is scheduled to perform Lulu early next year, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club started its season last week with an auspicious production of Spring's Awakening, Wedekind's first work...
Wolfe's eye for the ridiculous is just as sharp as ever (he hates sidewalk stereos); his flair for language just as captivating (Jimmy Carter is an "unknown down-home matronly-voiced Sunday-schoolish soft-shelled watery-eyed sponge-backed Millenial lulu"). But all the caring is gone. Wolfe doesn't let his subjects hang themselves anymore (as he did so exquisitely in "Radical Chic," his description of Leonard Bernstein's fund-raiser for the Black Panthers); he must open the trap-door himself...
...water-ski . . . Albert, we have nothing in common." The Dynamo later lets fly with some of her generation's ultimate obloquy: "You're so out of touch with your own feelings." Albert tries to unload some of his burdens upon his psychiatrist, a lulu named Nederlander ("I'm turning the wheel over to you, Doc"), but the best ad vice the shrink can offer is, "Tonight, eat Chinese...