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...austerely elegant apartment setting at Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater is an antiseptic anteroom of an urban purgatory. A cubistic formation of white, black, lucite and chrome, the room suggests that a fashionable decorator has just made a hasty exit. The people E.L. Doctorow assembles here, in his first play, are upper-middle-class professionals and old friends whose blood count has been lowered by civilization...
Barroom baritone: slightly off key. Choice of material: boyhood favorites. Yet Old Showman Joe Papp, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival, won raves from the audience attending his professional singing debut last week at a Manhattan cabaret called the Ballroom. "I'm making a public display of myself at this stage of my life," Papp, 57, began. Then he whipped out a top hat and cane and even mouthed a harmonica. After the finale and a flurry of roses at his feet, the star collapsed in his dressing room and sighed: "I could act Hamlet easier than this...
With an aptly symbolic hand, the bril liant Rumanian director-designer Liviu Ciulei has erected a high mesh screen across the middle of Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater. All scenes of institutional ritual occur behind it. Before it is a leafy ground of freedom where the high school children escape to their for bidden trysts and utter the long and some times lustrous thoughts of youth...
...name the most obvious ones, all of which, like Runaways, either originated or generated excitement at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in Greenwich Village: Hair, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf and A Chorus Line. This musical's basic structure derives from Chorus Line. Like the gypsies in that show, who deliver soliloquies as to why they ran away to Broadway to dance, the bruised youngsters in Runaways sing songs of woe about fleeing ugly homes for streets and scenes sometimes even darker. What Elizabeth Swados, 27, here portrays in a dramatically erratic...
What pulled him up, ironically, was what set him down: Jaws. Nothing is so good for an actor's ego as a hit, and Dreyfuss's ego, which Jaws had punctured and which Papp had exploded, returned to its normal enormous size. He now calls Steven Spielberg, the director of Jaws, a genius, and admits that the movie was not the "dreck" he once thought...