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Married. Raul Julia, 36, star of Joseph Papp's Lincoln Center production of Threepenny Opera; and Merel Poloway, 26, dancer in the long-running Broadway musical Pippin; he for the second time, she for the first; in a Hindu ceremony performed by Swami Muktananda Paramahansa; in the Catskill Mountains near South Fallsburg...
...been the custom of audiences to pretend that nothing has happened, or to infer that the millennium has arrived. Nonsense. A mixture of black and white can sometimes disturb the texture of a play, as in Odyssey. Or it can enrich the work, as it does in Pippin. In Of Mice and Men, it grants the play a fresh resonance. The interdependence of George and Lennie is far more poignant and tragic than in the original. Indeed, it is doubtful whether the play would have been producible in the old style (a 1968 TV revival with Nicol Williamson and George...
...husband with her ostentation and trying to marry off her daughter to a phony French count. The women, playing all roles - male and female - except for Count Jolimaitre (Ty McConnell), perform with just the right note of light camp. They all but twirl hypothetical mustaches. The songs by Don Pippin and Steve Brown have a rollicking charm. When Mrs. Tiffany (Mary Jo Catlett) embarks on her fantasy of "My daughter the Countess," she is aquiver with such an exuberance of social-climbing greed that one almost hopes she makes...
...PIPPIN. Fabulous Bob Fosse fashioned this ace musical, in which the son of Charlemagne is regaled with firecracker dance numbers, sunshiny songs and smashing girls...
...Broadway's 34 theaters were dark last week. Of the 18 in business, only a handful-including those housing the musicals Pippin and Two Gentlemen of Verona and the plays Butley and That Championship Season -were taking in enough at the box office to make a profit for the shows and for themselves. (Broadway theaters do not charge rent from producers, but take 25% of the box office gross.) Just to rub things in, some 23 national touring companies of past seasons' hits like Jesus Christ Superstar and No, No, Nanette are outdrawing Broadway productions for the first...