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E-2 @ u ~~ ,,. By JAY SHARBUTT AP Drome Writer ' NEW YORK - Some may calFit a revival in the truest sense. But \Frankenstein\ i- adapted from the tale of ithe first monster to get a iDacemaker - will be a fggadway offering this sea- \e baged musical to rival \An- nfe\ - \Dennis the Men- ; ace.\ New works by Nell Si- mon, Arthur Miller and {Woody Allen also are afoot. 7850 is a one-man show with a j not-so-tiny title: i \Banjo Dancing, Or the 4818 Annual Squitters Moun-, {iam soe, tree rotors vention 0 Con« Harm How I Lost.\ [IZ TOLD, the roster of 'geason's Broadway- T wares lists 13 must- els 15 plays, six limited- roductions and a trio of (Show EchecluleilJ to : from September mid4®1. may make it to iway, of course. Some ' Expire out of town, oth- 5 ws. ter that;-the newcomers piust compete against overs, the 14 musi- S ~ at t Bly bit about the of jusical. The new version ar§ Tammy Grimes, un- able as ever, -and Jerry a 7 By JONMICHAEL REED &_ NEW YORK - When §Franky Doyle got finned 'down by coppers and kicked athe’ bucket, soap opera fans Angeles beld a me-* service for the dear It's not untygual for scap Sfang to death of a Thuybrite character, nor is, it ger a fake grave. What is amost pecullar. about this g : Bervice, however, the person being me- , Franky, was an escaped convict and a sa- distic, ruthless, foul- mou lesbian, albeit with \'@ tarnished heart of gold\ beneath the tough exterior. Franky is but one of the wamen featured in the Aus- trallan produced serial, \B¥ioper; Cell Block H.\ down-under soap is the tlegt to be imported to this 80 will a new cartoor . is \42nd Street,\ a . Produced by noted critic» baiter David Merrick, last at loose on Broadway in 1976, the show opened Mon- day to rave reviews. A DIFFERENT kind of musical bows Sept, 14 -- 'Charlie and Algernon,\ based on a novel about a man with a child's mind who becomes a gerifus. The 1968 film version, \Charly won Cliff Robertson an Os- car. The music for the Broad- way version is by Charles Strouse, whose last hit, \An- nie,\ still packs 'em in after three years. Other new musicals of note: \'One Night Stand,\ about an aging tunesmith, by Jules \Funny Girl\ Styne and Herb \A Thou- sand Clowns\ Gardner; \Perfectly Frank,\ which uses the old but good tunes of Frank Loesser, and \On- ward Victoria{,\ a suf- fragette songfest. © f Also coming: Revivals of \Can-Can\ and \Briga- doon,\ plus pop star Linda Ronstadt's Broadwa; ' in a December version of \'Pirates of Penzance,\ pr ducer Joseph Papp's tral Park summer hit. © ELSEWHERE, \Fran- kenstein,\ a $1 million-plus production, takes over;,the horror-story concession va- cated by the summer depar- ture of \Sweeney Todd.\ . However, the new arrival isn't a musical. A spokesman says the' show, due in December and based on Mary Shelley's classic novel, has Incidental music but is being done as a drama - with an electrify» | with strong, frank, often brutal stories of women be- hind bars. Prison life isn't glamorized, nor are the cha- racters. In addition to Franky, there's Doreen, the illiterate child-woman whose const- ant companion is a teddy bear; Lynn, the naive coun- eine noone mapping; Bea, the'h - ten, cynical murderess; Ma- rilyn, a porne-star prostl- tute, and an agsortment of other armed robbers, mur- deresses, alcoholics, and \framed\ prisoners. Plots have been heady and con- troversial. That's why most stations air the program in the early .or late evening, rather than in the usual American soap opera after- noon time periods. BUT THOSE viewers who have caught the \Prisoner\ habit have done so with gus-' cqightry, and it currently to. The word bas spread aA in some 40 markets that this is an adult show ghout the U.S. Several with a plethora of pot-boil- Adférican soaps proved so ing plots that move faster popular: when exported to than American soaps. There Ad#tralia that the Aussies ts only a small core of per- produced a string of their manent castmembers on ow! soaps. If \Prisoner\ is ''Prisoner.\ New inmates arfcexample, the Aussies (arrive and stay only long krig@e how to package a wall enough to generate a brisk ofeguds. It's \adult\ fare story. Every several weeks, BUFFALO COURIER-EXPRESS, Sunday, August 31, 1980 ing .amouft of special ef- fects, bf course. . Among the plays - most are on the lighter side - that may get more than av- erage-attention this season: '-- Oscar-winner Woody Allen's first stage work since 'Play It Again, Sam\ 'In 1969, As he works in secrecy, no. details, of his new opus will be available until April, when it bows at Lincgln Center's Beaumont Theater, itself reopened this fall after three years of darkness, - ''The American Clock,\ a Depression-era drama by Pulitzer Prize- ur Miller, It's hig first new Broadway work in 10 years and is sche- duled to open in early No- vember. - \DIVISION Street,\ a farce about the radical '60s by Steve Tesich, who won an Oscar last season for writing a film that became a sleeper hit, \Breaking Away.\ His play opens Oct. 5. -\Fifth of July,\ by this year's Pulitzer winner for drama, Lanford Wilson, a- thor of \Talley's Folly.\ No opening date for the new work - part of his \Folly\ trilogy - is set. But it' check in sometime during this season, a spokesman - \JM Came Tumbling After,\ a beach-holsa. co Mike Ni- medy chols. It's by Jeg‘lterr. au- thor of 1961's comedy hit, \\Mary, Mary.\ Her new one eres Nov. 8. - *'The Suicide,\ an r Russian satire. there's a new and exciting plot that takes center screen. The ‘Ifirodu‘ctlon reaches and expenses put American 08 g Soane, Hymn fiat-lawm- Ings every} her 'month, 'Prisoner\fe at least one éxterion gceng every other . Of course, when the show was originall done in Australia, it aire two or three nights a week rather than every day. Still, the production standards, acting, and writing should be an example to American soaps that the possibilities of the serial form haven't begun to be stretched on these shores. ~ PRISONER\has picked nan dozen new stations which will begin airing the show in September. Because of its. success in the syn- dicated market, other Aus- tralian serials are being considered for Import. Meanwhile, the first Ameri- can serial to ever be export- ed to Europe will begin air- Ing overseas in September. European countries have had their own soap produc- tions for a number of years, It was to have premiered in Moscow in 1932 but was slain by censors. British ac- tor Derek Jacobi, late of public TV's \I Claudius,\ stars in this attempt, which opens on Oct. 9. - Another Nell Simon play, his 18th. It's called \Curse of Kulyenchikov,\ is based on a fable about a , Russian town afflicted with stupidity, and arrives in March. It'll join his other current Broadway hits - ''They're Playing Our Song\ and \I Ought to Be in Pletures\ - and tide him over until he writes another \TRICKS OF the Trade,\\ which brings George C. Scott and his wife, Trish Van Devere, back to Broadway in a cap- er about a psychiatrist and his wife who both are spies. It says hello in October. - \Passions a new co- medy by Albert \Gemini Innaurato, It's about a man whose wife left him for rea- sons other than that he lives in Philadelphia. It's direct- ed by Frank Langella, the '\Dracula\ of Broadway past, and bows Sept. 23. Of the six limited-run plays, three are at the un- der-new-management Beau- mont, First up there in No- vember.ts a revival of \The Philadelphia Story,\ fol- lowed by '\Macheth' in Ja- nuary and then the new {All- en play in April. j THE THREE others, at a different locale, are Euri- pedes' \The Bacchae\ with Irene Pappas, \Hamlet\ with Richard ChamberBéin, and Strindberg's ''The (Fa- ther,\ with EH Wallach find his wife, Anne Jackson. 4 Prisoner', a Soap from Down Under s Proving Popular in This Country ; but \Ryan's Hope\\ will.be- gin atring in, appropriately, Dublin on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Interestingly enough, \RH\ is the only American scap which can be distribut- ed with all of its epi@ddes intact, beginning with its, |A July 7, 1975, premiere. The takenty, erase tapes of almost all the other soaps after a three-month period. In the past six years, \spe- clal event' episodes have gohe into \savings vaults,\ but everything else bas been lost to posterity. Credit for \RH's\ complete backlog goes to Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, the show's creators and produc- ers, who had the foresight to stipulate in their initlal con- tract with ABC which airs the program to retain the show's entire library of epi- sodes. If \RH\ is successful in Ireland, a sale to English television is proposed. AVith the Aussie invasion, well as the half dozen South American soaps which air on Spanish language chan- nels, soap operas are truly becoming \global affairs.\ Major plays and movies p g around the Niagars festier and how they were viewed in critiques appear- \DRESSED TO KILL,\ both profits and suffers from director Brian De Pal ma's superbly styled, anti- ingJn the Courter-Express. whodunit dream-togic which m was the film through sex E On Screen: and death, fantasy and real ity. (Mike Healy, Aug. 21.) EMPIRE pypp chairs. STW@IEES BACK\ is the next episode of \Star Wars\ ang-rather than just repris- old stuff, it improves using its knowledge angs as a base fri which to build rather on which to fall:Back. (Doug Smith, May 11_teview based on New \PROM NIGHT,\ another derivative horror fllek with suburban teens terrorized teets, takes too long to get to, the a staged ax mag? mtg; Jarmie Lee & Curtis. (Jay Boyar, 2) McKay's. 4 \THOSE tP8, THOSE Aug. YOEk screening.) Four chilts. EXES,\ mis-casts thesemt+ nently exotic def Langela as a twi bit, 4 hustler in a mushy tribute to the magic of theta?- stage. (Jay Boyar, Aug. One chatr. “ ) \ENIFE o BLUES BROTEH- Engh ware enjopnble tt h , much more enjoyable it filmed on a smaller had more of a plot anit more comedy from stats Dan Aykroyd and Jo§K Belushi, in addition to its cameos by top blues ang-soul artists. (Janet June 21.) DDYSHACK* caddies a, pits Three chairs. \CLAIR DB PEMME\ is an anuszal film in that it is \MIBALLIANCE®\ is Reviews in Brief on Stage and Screen \THE CHERRY OR- CHARD,\ Chekhov's popu- lar masterwork is luxuriant ly designed but languidly W. (Bob Groves, May \A FLEA IN HER EAR,\ Feydeau's farce double- times through three acts of axinflck. (Bob Groves, May ''PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ\ is a 1977 Canadian cabaret revue of Irving Ber- lin tunes -with a clever set, dance foutines by an ener- getic quartet, in an evening of light entertainment. (Bob Groves, June 2.) \IHE PHILANDERER,\ 'based on a two-timing inci- dent in Bernard Shaw's own lif#, takes shots at love, marriage, courtship, sex and unisex in a breezy, self- assured production. (Bob Groves, June 27.) \A RESPECTABLE 'CEBET Callery, Ang. (216 Bectol Mixed Bag Coming Up on Broadway They'll be at the Circle in the Square, the repertory troupe that starts its 30th - 7 _ Russian Art On Display. :;. ing;\ starts doing His thing -, playing banjo, singing, clog-dancing and spinning year of life with -the Oct. 2 tall ''Bacchae'' premiere. As for the one-man sho coming 'to Broadway, the lead-off witness is a chap they'd call a blast from the past - comedian Shelley Berman, who helped popula- rize the sport of angst two decades ago. He returns for another try, lasting a month, on Sept. 29, .. 1 On Oct. 10, Stephen Wade, sole star of \Banjo Dane- LASTLY, ON Oct. 27 ac- tor Michaet McGivney ar- rives fora month in \Quick Change.\\ You may expect to see him gasping for breath and trying to figure out who he is after each show. Auyone can figure out out why. In the space of 90 mf- nutes, McGivney does 57 costume changes and plays 24 characters, from King Arthur to a floozy in a bar. LOS ANGELES (AP) -~ A survey devoted exclusively to Russian modern art pro- duced in the early decades of this century is on view at the Los Angeles County Mu- Seum of Art through Sept. 28. . The exhibition, \The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930,\ features the work of 40 artists in more than 450 paintings, sculp- tures, prints, drawings, books, photographs, textiles and examples of industrial, theatrichl and architect design. - The museum says the dis- play \explores the develop- ment of Russian modernise in the years immediately - before and after the revolu- tion of 1917, wherl Russian artists challenged tradition- al cultural values.\ , Les SHOWING: DAILY AT: 2484-18 ~ 884-0700 HOLIDAY 3 3801 UNION ROAD Celebrate This advertisement was don . Earth Festival From herb-growing and flower-drying to wood- carving and weaving, demonstrations teach the ® uses of nature and the goodness of the earth. Sunday, September 7, Noon-Spm Buffalo Museum of Science King, Jr. Park Steering Committee an and Traders Trust Company. tlfie Earth! Dr. Martin Luther ated by th . lithe Manufacturers American networks, , | € u h BRIAN DE ALMA, -* MASTER OF THE MACABRE, . 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