With Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Levon Helm, Elizabeth Berridge, Sarah Inglis, Margaret Welch Running time: 1 hour, 32 minutes. It costs a lot less money to hire one synthesizer player than a whole string section. Cranko's style inventively blended academic classicism and Soviet acrobatics with the European character-dance tradition and Georgette Tsinguirides' production for the Joffrey (last danced here in 1983) lovingly preserved every broken line and twisty accent. Or, more to the point, exactly how soon the company will be back. .

It reads as follows: "To Mako and East West Players for releasing Asian American actors from the limitations of stereotyped roles and for enabling Asian-American playwrights to provide them more challenging opportunities" A Special Award was also voted to Bill Bushnell, artistic/producing director of the new Los Angeles Theatre Center, "for his focus on the multicultural diversity of theater and for making his bold dream a reality with the creation of the Los Angeles Theatre Center, 'the Miracle on Spring Street' " Jose Quintero, a man with a distinguished track record and the director of the burnished revival of "The Iceman Cometh" now at the Doolittle Theatre, will be the guest of honor at this year's awards dinner to be held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (213) 851-3771. . "It happens to many people over the duration of their careers" Peiffer said in a telephone interview "Peter is no different. The creators and actors are rarely up to the challenge, so you wish they wouldn't even try. Scene six: The intruder opens the bedroom door and enters the room with a flashlight "Who is it" the terrified woman asks The intruder grins at her and approaches "Oh, my God" she screams "All right, shut up" he shouts "Don't hurt me" she cries Scene seven: The intruder is raping his hysterical victim. "Maybe we should have jacked up the music in that dance scene" he says, unwilling to let go of his just-completed film.

Without any major innovations such as 1983's Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI, which allows synthesizers and computers to communicate with each other, this year's convention drew more than 500 exhibitors and 25,000 visitors to explore product refinements, new applications for technology and methods of boosting business in the $2. 5-billion musical instrument industry. Said the author, "Well, I had read somewhere that this guy is making a cartoon show of Elvis Presley. Some show-biz watchers note that all three networks began making more detailed creative decisions when they moved their programming operations from New York to Hollywood. Ticket sales for the Irvine Meadows event, however, proved exceptionally slow, and the concert had to be canceled. "Agnes of God" "Plenty" "Twice in a Lifetime" and "Eleni" (which opened in New York Friday) were all hyped as awards movies before their release, and though each has had some good reviews, their critical reception overall has been disappointing.

Then, four decades after he first hit the chitlins circuit, Armstrong, accompanied by old-crony guitarist Ted Bogan, resurfaced in Chicago, winning popularity with a new generation of folk music followers. What is lost in fragmentation, size reduction or juxtapositions is made up for in surveying the range and development of Zehr's unique sensibility. He was the source for the network's report that the agency planned to kill Rewald to keep his story from getting out Rewald's criminal trial opened Aug. The news is what happens behind those closed doors for two days" There are a few media people to tell us about that too. Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" (1956) stars Max von Sydow and Gunnar Bjornstrand It focuses on a knight's allegorical chess game with Death.

In most opera companies, he might cause problems for the beleaguered general director In West Berlin, however, he causes no problems at all. "BOESMAN AND LENA" Athol Fugard's play, at the Los Angeles Theatre Center Director Bill Bushnell Producer Diane White Set, lighting and costume design Timian Alsaker Sound design Jon Gottlieb Production stage manager Jill Johnson With Moses Gunn, Madge Sinclair, Shabaka At 8 p. m Monday-Saturday, with 2 p. m matinees Thursday, Saturday Closes Feb 2 Tickets $10$20 514 S Spring St, (213) 627-5599. . "The clothes are wonderful, the sets are beautifully done and the furniture is beautiful" she said. The place has raised more than $62 million, sprouted nine curatorial departments and has more volunteers, councils and programs than can be decently acknowledged. If the academy had nominated Howard and not Spielberg, that might legitimately seem to be a slight.

"I think our involvement" he said of the NAB, "was from meeting with the wives Their concern has risen to public policy debate. He replaces Norman Morrice, director since 1977, who has been suffering from injuries and is resigning at the end of next season. . "There was always the good and the bad" Lyden said in an interview at his home in Orange "If you were good, you were rewarded in some way. There was constant noisy overplaying, little evidence of instilled orchestral discipline, only minimal gestures toward balanced ensemble or dynamic subtleties. How one wishes the pianist would lean into a phrase once in a while, singing out rather than forever sighing! Perahia is a different and vastly more interesting pianist in the early works, where he is not trying to make interpretive points.

I certainly don't want them to distract" Judging from her description of "Untitled" included in an ambitious four-part program of her own compositions, that may be tricky. In this case, Los Angeles-based Gaylord Productions is financing the difference between the $2. 4-million fee CBS is paying for the two-hour telefilm, which will be aired in the spring, and the just-under$3-million cost of production. There's a guy with a megaphone who shouts the orders as they come in. They have taken part in the new surge in international contact and exchange made possible by the Open Door Policy initiated in 1979. But beyond living up to Cox's description of her as "a girl who's been around the block a few times" we don't know nearly enough about her. Glen Carson, the Tinman, possesses a simply beautiful voice that shows absolutely no signs of rust, while Corey Robinson delights with a loose-limbed interpretation of the Scarecrow.

In a sign of how the times have changed in public television, however, these and many other national projects in development at KCET are geared for existing PBS series rather than as showcase specials or KCET-produced series. The other figurative and abstract works (on view through Oct. Whether he jumped, and what the woman meant to him (he may have gotten her pregnant) are not nailed down In fact, these may not be memories at all. Discussing his game plan, he was quick to dismiss the multiple night-multiple club approach practiced by Hanifin, saying he's "not going to go that way-I'd just get burnt out" Also, unlike Hanifin, his immediate goal is to land a spot on "The Tonight Show" Toward this end, he intends to log some performance time on the road; enter both the Los Angeles and San Francisco comedy competitions, which can provide a critical boost to a comic's career, and try to land bookings at the prestigious Hollywood Comedy Store.

"My voice ain't where I want it to be" she told the audience after completing her opening few selections True enough. Apart from serving meals and selling baked and takeout goods, it has always done a substantial catering business in the Eastbluff area, a semi-isolated neighborhood between Jamboree Road and Upper Newport Bay. I wasn't even allowed to straighten my hair or wear open-toed shoes They thought I was being too worldly. "I like to gossip, but I don't really care-I don't really care what most people are doing" The Saturday Review piece suggests that Cher probably can be found dancing on the beach in a sequined string bikini; however, the actress-wearing the same jeans and sweater-was actually bustling around the kitchen, getting hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken ready while her manager, Bill Sammeth, put the final touches on a pasta salad "I never handle this thing right" she confessed. "To me, be-bop is a lot more interesting than pop-jazz" Marillo said. Its flexible format of 23 vignettes allows the cast to adjust the length and emphasis of the show to suit the needs of the audience-whether at a Kiwanis club, college campus or hospital auditorium. "When they do, the focus is on the subject , with a capital S-that is, homosexuality and the reactions to it, rather than focusing on the (gay) characters themselves" The museum is co-sponsoring with the Film Society of Lincoln Center an upcoming series of new films that includes yet another movie on a gay theme that is due to be released later this spring, "Donna Herlindaand Her Son" The Spanish-language film by Mexican director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, was described by Kardish as the story of a Mexican mother's attempts to maintain a family unit that includes her gay son and his male lover, and the woman he has married in order to bear his mother a grandchild.