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Sorry I didn't make it home to Gun-dagai for the bushfires. Fact is, I got stuck in New York with this sheila I met on the plane, watching a preview of a TV series the Yanks made of The Thorn Birds-you know, the novel by Colleen McCullough that Auntie Pat was reading before the port got her. Long as a snake's liver and all about this priest (Richard Chamberlain) and a girl named Meggie (Rachel Ward) on a station (or ranch, as they call it here) who get a big thing for one another...
Students interviewed yesterday expressed general relief that Monday's schedule was open, allowing them to get settled and explore on their own. The only scheduled activity was a special preview showing for about 100 prospective students of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' new show, "Of Mines...
From its earliest preview last December, this musical with magic found itself riddled with afflictions. Doug Henning, 35, may be America's premier illusionist, number his impish persona in eight TV specials and the longrunning 1974 extravaganza The Magic Show. But there are three things he cannot do onstage: sing, dance and act. To compensate, he cannily plays history's greatest wizard and surrounds himself with kinetic performers...
Props were dropped, cues were missed, preview audiences became restive. The original director, Frank Dunlop, was summarily replaced by Co-Producer Ivan Reitman, and the footwork of Choreographer Christopher Chadman was supplemented by Billy Wilson's (Bubbling Brown Sugar). A parade of advisers came backstage to offer cardiopulmonary resuscitation: among them Directors Michael Bennett and Jerome Robbins. They all gave some general advice: Forget about the numbers; "Get on with the magic...
During weeks of sold-out preview performances, Henning bolstered the show with with more effects than he could shake a wand at. Many of them had never been seen since the days of Houdini and Blackstone; none has ever been performed so adroitly. Even fellow magicians gaped at Merlin's entrance in a five-inch bubble that mysteriously expanded to life size before the wizard emerged. The other illusions were no less astonishing. On center stage, Debby instantaneously vanished...