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...devise a version of Moby Dick as a one-man, 90-minute theater piece comes under the heading of "They said it couldn't be done." Jack Aranson has done it, superbly. Aranson was born in Los Angeles, trained as an actor at the Old Vic, toured Ireland, and in 1963 formed his own San Francisco City Theater. He is currently doing Moby Dick at college theaters in the Bay Area. Berkeley students are as still as un-dropped pins on the nights he appears...
With this one-man show, Jack Aranson has joined a select and illuminating company, that of John Gielgud in Ages of Man, Siobhan McKenna in Here Are Ladies, Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens and Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight . Moby Dick is the most formidable task...
...Whitney's director, John Baur, agreed "because black artists have been so neglected." To organize the show, the Museum appointed Doty, who is white but had directed three earlier one-man shows by blacks at the Whitney. The B.E.C.C. asked that "a black expert on black culture" be hired as guest curator along with Doty. In a prodigious diplomatic error, the Whitney refused. Its grounds were those of precedent. "Only three of our shows in the past forty years," a museum spokesman explained, "have been organized by guest experts." But Baur did agree to consult black experts "wherever feasible...
...have such searching, unsentimental questions and answers been put to a Broadway audience with such elegance and expertise. Sally's number Losing My Mind is the torch-singing peak of the show, but Sondheim's entire score is an incredible display of musical virtuosity. It is a one-man course in the theatrical modes of the '20s, '30s and '40s musicals, done not as parody or mimicry, but as a passionately informed tribute. Michael Bennett's dances have a charged, steely precision, a top-hat, hot-pants staccato rhythm. James Goldman's book...
...chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Wilbur Mills swings almost as much power as the President on many domestic issues. Lately, the cherubic Congressman from Kensett, Ark., has also been moving into foreign policy, opening a one-man campaign to solve a long-festering problem in relations between the U.S. and Japan and avert an international trade war. Last week his well-intentioned efforts led to a direct confrontation with President Nixon, who was clearly annoyed. The break could develop into a power struggle that would unsettle U.S. trade policy and possibly affect the fate of revenue sharing...