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...comic extravagance of having Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner (Baritone James Billings), carry on like an insurance salesman who has been crushed beneath his quarterly projections set a pace that the singers cannot match. Whatever purists may have thought were its vulgarizations and deficiencies, Joseph Papp's Broadway presentation of The Pirates ofPenzance was all of a brassy piece. This Mikado is too fitful, too ambitious, perhaps-Dare we even whisper it, risking the rage of Savoyards everywhere?-a little too respectful. Crazy? More like not crazy enough...
...Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) has arranged for an airing of all three films on the congressional closed-circuit television network; the Biograph Theatre in Washington has been showing the films to sellout crowds, cancelling Hitchcock flicks to do it. And producer Joseph Papp plans to show the films at his public New York theatre...
...forestall an unauthorized American production of their latest operetta, The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan arranged for virtually simultaneous opening nights in England and America. Now, 104 years later, Producer Joseph Papp's $12 million movie version of Pirates, based on his updated Broadway production, has received another dual premiere: on television and in theaters. On Feb. 18, Universal Pictures simultaneously showed the movie on 17 pay-per-view subscription and cable systems and opened it at 91 moviehouses around the country. It was the first time that a premiering film had also been released on television...
Says Gerard H. Hartman, vice president and marketing director of Universal Pay Television: "The times are changing, and we had to give this a try." Producer Papp points out that "the audience we tried to attract through pay-per-view is people who don't go to the movies." Such one-shot pay-per-view events have been staged before with mixed results. The most successful was 1982's World Boxing Council heavyweight title bout between Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney, which drew 30% of its potential pay-per-view audience. Last year's showing...
That Championship Season itself was a successful play several years ago, staged by Joseph Papp. To its credit, the movie avoids the temptation to stray from the play's focal points. For the most part, the film takes place in the coach's large, wooden house, whose dark paneling, airy rooms and surrounding porch recall O'Neill's description of the Tyrones' house in Journey. And while O'Neill's Mary suffers partly because she has never had a real home, the men in That Championship Season suffer because they realize they have lost their home: the basketball court where...