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...People think I'm secretive and reclusive," says a wistful Woody Allen, 45. "I'm not. It's just easier for me to work without a lot of attendant publicity." Thus when Manhattan's Vivian Beaumont Theater announced that Allen was writing a play to open there next month, those curious about The Floating Light Bulb were kept in the dark. Last week, however, Allen agreed to illuminate the work a bit at a photo session with Beatrice Arthur, Jack Weston and other cast members. "It's a modest little play," he insists. "The basic...
Burglary in the Country. Vivian and Al Weber lived in Battle Creek, Mich., working 6:30 a.m.-to-3 p.m. shifts in two different factories?and hating city life. In 1976 they realized what Mrs. Weber calls "our dream, our lifelong dream," moving to a 50-acre site near the tiny village of Burlington and commuting 35 minutes to work. "Everything we had, we put into this home," she recalls. One afternoon the Webers came home to find "glass all over. They'd smashed the window into the kitchen. Everything was gone through ?every drawer, every room...
Eventually they decided to work the same hours again. Al got home first one day and met Vivian outside the door. He was white as a sheet. "Honey," he said, "we've been ripped off again." This time the burglars took some of the items the Webers had bought as replacements?and keepsakes as well. "They've got us timed," thought Mrs. Weber. "They know when we go and when we come home." She quit work and would not even go shopping unless Al was home. He gave up his annual hunting trips. They put deadbolt locks...
...Vivian Beaumont Theater at Manhattan's Lincoln Center is the dramatic equivalent of Russian roulette. It is played with breathtaking regularity at this house, which in 15 years of fitful existence has never had any precisely defined aesthetic goal or financial stability. As a result, the persisting apprehension is that any given season, even any given production, may be the last...
After Joseph Papp relinquished his caretakership in 1977, the theater was dark for three years. Relit this season under the overall command of Richmond Crinkley the Vivian Beaumont is gambling on name-brand appeal involving such diverse talents as Woody Allen, Edward Albee and Ellis Rabb. One of the group, Sarah Caldwell. best known for staging operas, makes her Broadway directorial debut with Macbeth. While this production may not kindle a blaze of excitement it is engaging enough to pose no threat of killing off the Beaumont...