In attempting to fashion an opera from Edgar Allan Poe's horrific, decidedly unoperatic short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher" Claude Debussy indulged a librettist's prerogative, altering the text substantially to suit the composer's-in this case his own-purposes. 'RAP MASTER RONNIE' A musical at Studio One's Back Lot Theatre Presented by Scott Forbes Producer Ron Sossi Music Elizabeth Swados Book and lyrics Garry Trudeau Directors Frank Condon and Bill Castellino Choreographer Castellino Musical director Charlotte Lansberg Set Don Llewellyn Lighting Christine Lomaka Costumes Lisa Lovaas production stage manager Kate Hart. "Sure, it may alienate some people, but you can't satisfy everyone" she said "A lot of people only want to see statues of Gen Grant on horseback. Most of the performers were veterans of the rock wars and survivors of the activist '60s. Case in point: Chopin, a composer long linked with Magaloff (and represented at his UCLA program by the 24 Preludes. KTLA had extra operators standing by during Tuesday's telecast.
In discussing the recently announced 1986-87 season (which opens in October with "Tosca" followed by "Norma" "Fliegende Hollaender" "Barbiere di Siviglia" and a Menotti double-bill of "The Medium" and "The Telephone, he readily agreed with the suggestion that operatic adventure is missing from the repertory "The lineup of standard works is deliberate" he said "All opera audiences are basically conservative. Not every contemporary composer experiments with dissonance, strange new instruments or arcane theories. Ever seen a National Geographic special? Well, I would call that a reality-based program" The project's format hasn't been decided yet, Sias emphasizes: "All I would say is that it won't be (a) hard news, or (b) another newsmagazine" Were it to be just another news-magazine, he adds, "we wouldn't bother to do it. Killed off in "Rocky IV" Weathers is resurrected tonight in "Fortune Dane" (9 p. m, Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42-not as Apollo but as a modern-day Adonis: big, brawny and beautiful. He created theaters in Stratford, Canada, and in Minneapolis, and walked away from them on purpose. Thus, the program on Sunday at Royce Hall, UCLA, was right up his alley: Wagner's explosive "Meistersinger" Prelude, Bruch's schmaltzy Violin Concerto No. And Marsha Norman certainly does today. Duse's grace, Ruth Draper's insight, Jessica Tandy's wit-these aren't lessened when one refers to these players as actresses Nor will they be enhanced if one calls them actors What's in a name? They are quaLity artists Here, a new element enters the argument.
(To encourage local radio play, the band's record label, RCA, has supplied special tracks without Garland's voice so local deejays can insert their own spiels. There's a whole area of music where people initially would buy this record because it's got this interesting repertoire, which they've read has got a good review, and then they notice it's the San Diego Symphony" Atherton sees recordings as similar to the way he dropped the big-name guest artists from the symphony's season in favor of developing the local orchestra. It would be enough to leave the theater realizing that the party was a crucial test for her, and that she got through it. The general theme is how women emerged from the background to being active instead of passive historical figures-though this is not a feminist tract. "This time I really cut loose" says Le Guin, sitting on one of the verandas that rim her wood-frame house. 'THE RIVER WITHOUT BUOYS' A World Entertainment release of a Xi'an Studios production Producer Mi Baichao Director Wu Tianming Screenplay Ye Wellin Camera Liu Changxu, Chu Kongyang Music Xu Youfu Set designer Wang Shanan Costumes Liu Jianzhong With Li Wei, Hu Ronghua, Tang Qing-ming, Li Shulan In Mandarin, with Chinese and English subtitles Running time: 1 hour, 39 minutes Times-rated: Mature. . But what a shock it was to hear, finally, that we were getting a decent sound" To pick up the woodwind section, Supak embedded a pair of PZMs in vertical plexiglass panels "to fool the mike into thinking it's part of the floor.
A simultaneous show by little-known Mark Wethli finds him painting miniature Photorealist scenes of barren rooms. Once again he contemplates the impossibility of knowing anything for certain-especially about women-and the need for action even if it ends badly. Beggs; Sanchez, a troubled draftee (Ray Jarol, and Heiser, an overly ambitious superior (Craig Cavanah, don't mix very well in the Quonset they share on the eve of Vietnam. Burr is reunited with Barbara Hale, who played Della Street, the lawyer's loyal secretary, in "The Return of Perry Mason" a two-hour TV movie that NBC plans to broadcast Sunday.
"When was the question mark invented and by whom" the voice of Big Sister (or Gamesmaster) demanded No takers. Folger Library Director Werner Gundersheimer said the theater has been losing as much as $200,000 a year, a $1. 5-million loss during the last nine years. Art resides above sofas, clusters on columns and sometimes hangs so close to signs that you can't see the Pietas for the placards Don't get me wrong. "Most of the audience for these shows is between 30 and 55" he explained.
But strange things can happen in this brave new age of enlightened hippety-hop. It doesn't really matter that there are probably no police partners like Cagney and Lacey in all of copdom. And, as would any child who had spent her life amid family, she feared facing death alone. From Greek gods to robots, with a 12th-Century stop at King Arthur's court Pallenberg is showing quite a range "I do seem to be getting around, don't I". The Kline exhibition provides the first opportunity since 1968 to see an extensive number of pieces from all periods of his work. I found an apartment the day after I arrived, and I got an Alvin Ailey scholarship" While studying at the acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Caligagan was chosen to be one of Ailey's instruments in the creation of a new work for the Royal Danish Ballet "I'll never forget the first time Ailey talked to me. "I was going to do a play here about solitary confinement-so many people are arrested But it's outmoded by the energy of what's happening now I'm meeting with my multiracial cast to decide what to do.
A Live Aid spokesman said this week that due to the volume of response, contributions are still being tallied. She spoke reluctantly about an osteomyelitis operation as an infant, about being abandoned by her father at age 10, a broken back suffered in a tobogganing mishap at 17, studio suspensions, the deaths of her mother and, more recently, an aunt who helped raise her, the serious illness of her husband about four years ago, difficulties raising her own family and a current hypothyroid problem involving "my grandbaby" Eyes moist, Blyth preferred to change the subject. Spear carriers come on left, whirl their banners, and go off right. Wearing fatigues, his movements tracked by a PBS affiliate crew from Minneapolis, Bridges is standing at an open phone in a Cleveland bus station. The "Choices" incident was classic cross-promotion: News and entertainment shows were used to advertise each other and create news from non-news solely for the purpose of artificially inflating audiences. "We are sad that some of our American friends stayed away this year" said Michel Bonnet, secretary general of the festival. The proposal comes while the festival is still deadlocked in lease-renewal negotiations with the City of Laguna Beach, which owns the festival's six-acre site At issue is lowering the city's share of festival revenues.
Alessandra Ferri will dance the title role opposite Baryshnikov, with Martine Van Hamel as Myrta. Bach's solo secular cantata, "Durchlauchtster Leopold" written for the birthday (in 1722) of the Prince of Anhalt-Coethen. Sotto" (at the Fine Arts, Lina Wertmuller strings us along deftly. Unfortunately, "All the King's Horses" the LP's most mediocre song, is being released as the first single. "We're moving down the same aggressive path in both program production and distribution that we have for the last eight years together" said Harris, 42, whom Frank hired 60 days after joining the company. The Jacksons also were on the road in 1981, stopping in 36 cities. "Horn" is Simon at his most uncomplicated, yet given the simple framework, this production fails to fulfill even the most basic of the play's demands.
The 16-piece ensemble had been assembled by Roger Neumann, who, in Washington for an inaugural gig, was not able to conduct it. 20, &Voltron; The Battle for the Planet Arus" will be in the stores But Sony isn't selling this one cheaply Its cost, $49. 95, is steep for a kid-vid title Parents may be renting rather than buying this one. Next comes pa amb oli i pernil , which is simply a slab of excellent country bread, lightly toasted and rubbed with olive oil and the cut side of a fresh halved tomato and topped with a piece of delicious local ham. Go out and get our records played' " Independent promotion has long been a way of life in the record business. Doing 'Silence of the Heart' (in which she played the mother of a teen-ager who committed suicide) made me aware of the profound affect television can have And for me, it was the best use. In fact, they were a low-profile couple by monastery standards. "But that's not what my album is about and we didn't want someone to be confused.
then put the gang (billed as the Dead End Kids) in one crime melodrama after another. In a film career that spanned 30 years and included appearances in more than 400 films, movie serials and television shows, Lyden was the quintessential Hollywood heavy. "Mindscape" was created on the pinscreen, a device that gives the film the look of a pointillistic charcoal drawing. Before that he had been a musician with Country Joe and the Fish. Such revelations as "he uses a green toothbrush" kept the readers happy. So much said, it still must be admitted that one finally does experience the art, quand meme , and that there is a certain perverse justice in the glut of people at this particular event.
Fox, whose appointment becomes effective July 1,1985, has served as associate curator of exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington since 1975. Constance Congdon's "No Mercy" happens in New Mexico; Claudia Reilley's "Astronauts" in Forest Hills, Long Island; Mary Gallagher's "How to Say Goodbye" in Cleveland; Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller's "Smitty's News" in Camden, N. J. Essert was ousted as Filmex artistic director in 1983, an action resulting from charges that he bungled the finances and operations of the nonprofit film festival. The producers are very secure, so they're very supportive if we want to try to work in some lines of our own I'm almost jealous of my character's energy. But with finesse and aplomb, and elan and eclat, and maybe with an eclair and a croissant as well, "Fast Times" brings it off. In a move befitting the medium being honored, the TV Hall of Fame was conceived by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as much as a television show as an actual institution. The unwieldy, sprawling affair featured about two dozen musical performances and just as many speeches-the music courtesy of folks like Neil Young and Stevie Wonder, the talk from folks like Jon Voight and Whoopi Goldberg.