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...ZORBA, the new musical stopping in Boston on its way to New York, deals a final blow to the Broadway myth that David Merrick is its greatest showman. Harold Prince, not the producer of the all-black Hello, Dolly, deserves the title, and after Zorba, no one will be able to deny...
...Zorba is that triumph. Prince has the material this time and he goes to town. He has made the property (Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek), already institutionalized by a successful movie...
...with Cabaret, Prince's first concern in Zorba is atmosphere. The tone of the show, sustained through the entire evening, is set the moment the curtain rises. The entire cast, only nameless figures at this point, sits in a semi-circle that stretches across the stage. Some are talking; some are joking; some have musical instruments and are singing snatches of Greek songs. This is Greece...
...flowing black dress, comes forward to a standing mike. She starts a song, but it isn't about the setting and it isn't about the characters, for there are none yet. The song tells about life, because before being a musical about Greece or its title character, Zorba is about nameless people living, loving, suffering and dying...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Zorba the Greek (1964). A grand bacchanalian bash based on a novel by the late Nikos Kazantzakis. Starring Anthony Quinn, Lila Kedrova, Irene Papas and Alan Bates...