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...recent seasons, the Roundabout's venturesome founders, Gene Feist and Michael Fried, have offered playgoers a delectable comedy of sexual theatrics, Molnar's The Play's the Thing; Barrie's salute to the canny primacy of the female, What Every Woman Knows; and a world première of James Joyce's Dubliners steeped in Ireland's lyric grief. The level of performance has often been erratic, but the dramatic daring, like the digging, has been unfaltering...
Confronted by a vision of hell, does one stand in silent reverence for suffering or praise the spirit that surmounted it? Last week a Dutch audience faced this dilemma at the première of an opera, The Emperor of Atlantis, which was written in a concentration camp by two Jews. At the end, after a few seconds' pause, the listeners burst into applause for a work that stands on its own as a music drama of great power...
Searchlights swept the Manhattan sky above the old Ed Sullivan Theater on Manhattan's West Side. Autograph freaks gaped at a parade of celebrities. The atmosphere was as neon as a Hollywood première in the '20s. Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell-the first live TV variety series since the Ed Sullivan Show rode out in March 1971-was under way. It lived up-and down-to expectations. Roone Arledge, the hard-driving Barnum of ABC Sports, who developed the latter-day vaudeville along with Cosell, had burbled, "We want people to feel...
...film about small-time boxing, The Set-Up (1948). It recounts the sad, eventually violent doings at the home of Funnyman Jolly Grimm (James Coco), whose career as a silent-film star has suffered from the coming of sound. After a five-year absence, Jolly is staging the world première of his. new comedy and inviting everyone to his Hollywood mansion. Doug and Mary are having a do over at Pickfair, however, so the Grimm guest list is mostly populated by second-raters...
...call it Much Ado About Nothing, The Grand Illusion or perhaps even The Decline of the West. A few days before the show opened, the conference received some bad reviews from critics who labeled it The Betrayal of Eastern Europe. But fortunately they will not be present at the première to put a damper on the show...