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THEATREGOER'S NOTEBOOK
by Joan Alleman Rubin
Contemplating the new B'way season is like thumbing through a glossy Christmas catalogue and deciding on the treats you plan to give yourself. (Presents for others come later, don't they?)
I'm a greedy girl and also very lucky--my job at Playbill makes it possible for me to see nearly everything on Broadway. But if I did have to pick and choose, here are what my picks and choices might be.
[[image: photo of three actors in production of A Texas Trilogy]]
A Texas Trilogy (photo above) It will have opened by the time this is in print, but I'm predicting ahead of time that it's my kind of play--or rather plays. There are three of them and they'll be performed on separate nights. They are independent of each other, except they all take place in a mythical West Texas town populated with recognizable American characters.
I was enchanted by The Robber Bridegroom (an original musical based on a fanciful retelling of an old fairy tale) when John Houseman's Acting Co. did it last season. Now it's to have a new production with direction by Gerald Freedman, choreography by Donald Saddler and an audience that will include my husband, kids and me.
There are a couple of British imports coming up that I'd get to if I had to sell my winning (?) lottery ticket to arrange it. Comedians, about five stand-up comics studying for the big time at a school in Northern England. Mike Nichols is directing...No Man's Land by Pinter with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson....Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray and starring Tom Courtenay.
I'd go to see Liv Ullmann if she were scheduled to read cake recipes from Woman's Day. She's not. She is going to appear in O'Neill's Anna Christie. And Liv is only one of a number of the world's great actresses coming to B'way this season. Vanessa Redgrave will act in Circle in the Square's production of Farquhar's 1706 The Recruiting Officer. Maria Schell debuts on B'way in Poor Murderer, a German play that takes place in a St. Petersburg sanitarium. Claire Bloom opens in The Innocents, a 1950 play based on James' The Turn of the Screw. The incomparable Irene Worth is doing The Cherry Orchard for Joe Papp. Molly Picon co-stars with Hans Conreid in Something Old, Something New a play about two senior citizens who are having an affair. And Carol Channing is due here in Jan. in The Bed Before Yesterday, a comedy about a middle-aged widow who belatedly discovers sex.
Some pretty impressive men will be around as well. For example: George C. Scott in Sly Fox and Billy Dee Williams in I Have A Dream, an evening based on Martin Luther King.
Several years ago a friend was musing that B'way would ultimately keep certain of its great musical shows constantly on the boards, the way the great opera companies always have a Madame Butterfly or a Traviata in their repertories. These days his speculations seem to be fast approaching reality. Joining the successful revivals of My Fair Lady and Guys and Dolls will be the Houston Grand Opera's Porgy and Bess, a revival of Fiddler with Zero Mostel, and, come spring, The King and I, starring the original chrome-domed Yul Brynner.
What have I missed? Going Up, Goodspeed's latest entry--wouldn't miss it for the world. Stephen Schwartz never misses (Pippin, Godspell, The Magic Show), so I'd better not miss his The Baker's Wife. And, of course, later in the season I'll see Hellzapoppin, because no one can miss Jerry Lewis--he won't let you.
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