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...technical advice from its staff. Brustein proposes reducing the number of undergraduate productions at the Loeb from four to seven a year--but House drama societies, as well as other groups like the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, would continue to provide the lion's share of student drama at Harvard as they have in the past...
...Supremes. Ross is 34, so the script calls for a Dorothy who is 24 and a shy schoolteacher. This is awkward, because if the fantasy is to succeed, Dorothy must be childlike enough to be terrified of witches and wizards, and to talk trustingly with a scarecrow, a lion and a tin man. A woman of 24 who is that innocent should not be teaching school...
...Wicked Witch of the East has turned hundreds of juvenile spray-paint vandals into graffiti figures. The yellow brick road leads across the Brooklyn Bridge to the World Trade Center, where Richard Pryor reigns as the Wiz. But before Dorothy gets there, she meets a roarious but cowardly lion (Ted Ross) and a marvelous scarecrow (Michael Jackson), hung up on his pole and tormented by rascally birds. Jackson sings a piteous lament, to the effect that "you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game." Wiz Composer Charlie...
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...Paper Lion roars again, only this time Author George Plimpton is into fireworks, not football. For four years, professional Mittyman Plimpton has dreamed of orchestrating an international exhibition of fireworks, and last week he finally gave it a crack in Manhattan's Central Park. Plimpton's pyrotechnics featured music and 3½ minutes of displays from each of seven nations. "The Chinese firecrackers were vast chrysanthemum bursts. The Italians were all noise," says he by way of review. Why is he so hot on fireworks? Says Plimpton, who is now working on a book about the world...