Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject: Governor Lester Maddox. Broadway, fortunately, is not so dead as to ignore a show that is pulling customers to West Peachtree Street from 30 miles around. Last week Edward Padula, producer of Bye Bye Birdie and A Joyful Noise, announced that in January he will open Red, White and Maddox in Manhattan with the original cast...
...story traces Maddox's rise to Governor from small-time proprietor of the Pickrick fried chicken chain ("Happy white folks at my tables, happy nigras in my kitchen"), his successful bid for the presidency in 1973, and his war against Russia, in which he personally exterminates everybody but himself-even his pal, God, whose place he is only too happy to fill...
...White and Maddox was written by Jay Broad, managing director of Theater Atlanta, and Don Tucker, a veteran composer for cabarets and industrial shows. It remains to be seen, though, how well this regional product will travel. Another of the show's songs is ominously titled The City's a Great Place to Visit if You Don't Want to Live...
...capture the feverish, nightmare quality of the experiences Bacon depicts, he has developed what is essentially a surrealist dream style to near perfection. Every brush stroke bears the mark of absolute conviction, from the fields of poison green and fetid lilac that deck his backdrops to the calculated white ejaculatory splats that he lashes across the legs of his subjects. There is hatred and hostility in Bacon's vision, but of late it seems to be mellowing. Nothing in his current show comes near to matching the insane intensity of his screaming popes of 1949-53. A study...
...goal of the U.F.T. was to cripple the decentralization experiment, which it fears might lead to a dissolution of its bargaining power by giving local communities control of hiring and firing. Ironically, the strike seems to have furthered the cause of decentralization. Thousands of previously uninvolved city parents, white and black, who had been content to let the schools run themselves, became personally involved in their children's schools, and their operation. Those who were "radicalized" by the strike are not likely to continue to let the professional-teacher, supervisor, board-of-education bureaucrat-have full...