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Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman; Music by Alan Menken...
...Question 3, a ringing affirmative. The tiny stage of off-Broadway's Orpheum Theater is apulse with the engaging beat of Alan Menken's pastiche of infant rock 'n' roll. Librettist-Lyricist Howard Ashman has adhered to Griffith's plot with becoming fidelity, while sending it up by adding a funky chorus of observers: three black girl singers in tight skirts and tighter harmonies. In the show Audrey Jr. is Audrey II, and at the outset is a tiny terror: Pac-Man's mean mutant brother. By the show's climax, it envelops...
...Died. Clarence Wilfred Jenks, 64, director general of the International Labor Organization since 1970 and a lawyer who wrote a pioneering study in 1965 on the legal problems of outer space; after a short illness; in Rome. -Died. Arthur Menken, 69, newsreel photographer who covered the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, the siege of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Battle of Britain for Paramount, the March of Time and the Columbia Broadcasting System; of a liver ailment; in Florence, Italy...
...What talk it seemed to be! Shaw, Ibsen, Nietzsche. Back and forth the conversation went, in the clever, fragmented sentences of quick repartee. Before dessert they had gone on to Katherine Mansfield, and then in a postprandial few minutes they dealt, to their satisfaction and mine, with Cabell and Menken...
...Marie Menken, 57, wife of Willard Maas, an avant-garde bard who made some well-known experimental movies in the '40s, is possibly the finest film poet the underground has produced. She has a subtle feel for rhythms, a grand flair for colors and a gay wild way with a camera that leaves the eye spinning. In Lights, a 5½-minute study of Manhattan after dark, she slashes at her subject with a camera as an action painter slashes at his canvas, and the great stone city breaks up into a wriggling calligraphy of flash and filigree...