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Clt-Palm Beach Post. Thursday, Dec. 7, 1972 Grove Playhouse Is Re-Opened 3 jer ry renninger Bailes Espanoles (Feb. 27-Mai'ch4i. "The one thing we're deli-mlely not going to do is lock ourselves into one particular tonnat or one particular type ol Fishko savs It's important to find out what Hie audiences want, what they're willing to buy tickets lor.

and this will take a season or more. "II there appears to be enough public support, nothing would make us happier than to operate on an almost year-round basis. There's no reason why everything should have to told up whenspring arrives." Reopening the Coconut (rove Playhouse is a kind ol noble experiment, one which deserves to succeed on general principles if nothing else MIAMI You don't have to be overly romantic or even mildly deranged to think of a theater as a living thing. It can be healthy, both in dramatic and financial terms. It can suffer growing pains.

It can die suddenly or slip away into the mists. Last year the Coconut Grove Playhouse suffered acute coronary arrest and remained dark throughout the season. Thanks to swift injections of money and faith, administered by two new co-producers, though, the Grove Playhouse is now alive and well and expected to stay that way. Robert Fishko and Arthur Cantor have been the attending physicians, and their patient met the public Tuesday with Robert Horton starring in "Man of La Mancha" for a three-week run. Thoroughly refurbished insult' and out.

the playhouse will have new lighting and stage designers lor each pro-dud ion rather than maintain resident technical people, something of departure Irom the norm lor South Florida theaters "It doesn't matter how good you are." says the producer, "you tend to have your own pet tricks and ideas This means every sel and lighting design will have the same concepts and touches it they're done by the same people time alter time. We can't have that here." As the schedule stands now. "Man of La Mancha" will be billowed by Frank Uorshin in "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" i Dec. 26-Jan. 7i.

Noel Harrison in "My Fair Lady'' (Jan 9-Jan. 21 1, Hume Crony and Jessica Tandv in "Promenade All!" i Jan 23-Feb. 4i. Shelley inters in "The Kffect of Gamma Rays on Man-ln-The Moon Marigolds" (Feb. 6-Feb.

18i. Victor Borge's "Comedy In Music'' (Feb 20-Feb. 25 1. and Jose Molina's "Let's face it," Fishko says. "We don't expect to be completely in the black for about three seasons.

It cost quite a bit to fix up this house, and it's going to take some time to feel our way along in terms of what the public wants to see." Fishko, who also heads up the Tappan Zee Playhouse in Nyack, is a self-admitted rank newcomer to the world of theater in South Florida. Hearing that the Coconut Grove Playhouse was in trouble, he arid his partner last year investigated the situation and found it wasn't hopeless. The theater had a long-standing reputation for quality productions, its financial state wasn't beyond repair and the area audiences were hungry for drama. After making the appropriate arrangements, they took over the theater and started sweating. "Everyone we talked to mentioned security as a big concern," he says, "so one of our first moves was to make sure everyone coming to the Grove for a play would feel safe about it." The village of Coconut Grove has an unfortunate but deserved reputation for unsafe streets after dark.

To counteract this, Fishko and company had the theater's parking lot surrounded by chain-link fence and fully lighted, with uniformed guards posted at intervals around the building. To make the theater more accessible to would-be patrons from outlying areas, tickets have been made available through various outlets Ihroughtout Dade County besides the theater's own boxof-lice. and direct bus service Irom Miami Beach is also being instituted. "The whole idea is to make things as easy as possible for people to attend." says Coconut Grove Producer Robert Fishko the pmm beaches OBlGINAl Sf AFOOD HOUSf Quinn Promotes Black Mafia Film By MAKILYN BKCK HOLLYWOOD Anthony Quinn jetted into town over the weekend from his home in Rome to spend a few frantic RESTAURANT mm lot of talk though not all good One of the strongest examples yet of the ultraviolent school of filmmaking that's so preoccupied the industry this year, it's already caused some of the more sensitive among the studio employes who've seen it to flee from the screening room in mid-stream. Tony's convinced that it will end up with raves, at least, from those critics who don't mind the sight of blood, lots of blood And he's out to see that the bloody story about the black Mafia, filmed in graphic detail in Harlem, makes money, lots of money ey.

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