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There's a musical version of Aristophanes's Lysistrata opening tonight at Dunster House. This comedy used to be especially highly regarded in certain quarters because of its incisive discussion of the tactics of a mass revolutionary movement. I don't know who the music is by--on the other hand, when I was a freshman Dunster House put on a terrible play called Saved and my roommate did the lighting...
Died. Blanche Yurka, 86, accomplished dramatic actress; of arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan. Yurka was acclaimed for decades for her stage portrayals of such classic figures as Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Shakespeare's Gertrude, which she played to John Barrymore's Hamlet. She also appeared in several films, most memorably as Madame De-Farge in A Tale of Two Cities...
...statuesque student was soon playing suitably outsized roles: Lysistrata, Clytemnestra, Kate the shrew...
...triumph for what might be called Housewives' Lib-the most successful boycott by women since Lysistrata. Fed up with rising food prices, outraged by advice from various Washington officials to eat fish, eat cheese, or just eat less, thousands of women took to the streets in protest. In scores of cities and towns, they demonstrated, paraded, picketed, pamphleteered and badgered politicians. They cut down their purchases of meat, pledged meatless Tuesdays and Thursdays and, in an all-out boycott planned for this week, threatened to buy no steaks, chops, roasts or hamburger at all. In riposte, some farm leaders...
Things stumbled to a start with four flop musicals that lost their producers and backers a total of $2.5 million (Ambassador, Lysistrata, Dude and Via Galactica). The most spectacular were Dude-quickly nicknamed "Dud"-which lost about $900,000 and Via Galactica-originally titled Up-which went down for the same amount. With equal fatality, the new plays of the year came and, for the most part, went. Average losses: $200,000. Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business, which closed last week after 40 performances, was the sixth play of the season to fold...