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22. 8 P.M. ALL STAR-FORUM presents under the patronage ot the SEI Corporation PETER NERO PHILLY POPS ALL GERSHWIN PROGRAM Remaining Seats at Box Office CHARGIT 665-805 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Bread I Locust St. 093-1030 TONIGHT AT 8 PM SAT. AT 2 PM 8 PM TONY AWARD WINNER BEST PLAY 1983 HARVEY FIERSTEIN'S "TORCH SONG TRILOGY" TICKETS NOW ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE, TICKETRON OR TELE-CHARGE (215) 238-9030 (8 AM To Midnite 7 Days a Week! Major Credit Cards) GROUP INFORMATION (215) 238-9030 FORREST THEATRE 1114 WALNUT ST.

023-1515 Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins star in 'Crimes of Passion' Film: Career woman by day, hooker by night Review "Guaranteed laughter!" TIME "One ot the best entertainments tn town" Philadelphia Daily News BEYOND THERAPY by Christopher Durang Extended! Now Ihiu Nov. 11; Tues -Sat 8 PM Sun. Mat 2 PMTix: $10. $12. $14; Disc.

avaU. THE WILMA THEATER 2030 Samom Street Cell today: I63-034S TONIGHT AT 8 PM WINNER OF (3) OBIE 12) DRAM A DESK AWARDSI CLOUD 9 "A Delicious Comedy About Sex. Sex Consciousness Judith Crist. WOR TV "One of the 10 best productions of the Clive Barnes. NY.

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2 4 8 PM. SUN. 2 PM FINAL EXTENSION! MUST END SUN.I THE SMASH HIT MUSICAL "DO BLACK PATENT LEATHER SHOES REALLY REFLECT UP?" Eves Thru Sat. 8 PM Mats Sat Sun 2 PM Popular Prices Group Discounts Call 574-3562 Tickets at Telecharge, Tickelron or Box OHice WALNUT STREET THEATRE ttht Walnut St. Tetocheroe (215) 574-3SM TONIGHT AT 8:30 PM, SAT.

7 10 PMSUN. 2:30 7 PM 12TH SMASH MONTHI "FORBIDDEN BROADWAY" The Musical Revue That Pokes Loving Fun At Broadway's Musicals and its Fabulous Stars Thurs. I Fri. PM $14 Sat 7 10PM $17 2:30 7 PM $15 Tickets at The Bellevue Box-Ollice, Ticketron Or Chargit Nighttime Cabaret Theatre At The Hunt Room BELLEVUE STRATFORD Bread Street el Walnut 732-284 OCT.31-NOV.4 MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGEm 'NIGHT, MOTHER Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize winner with Phyllis SomervHie directed by Tom Moore "A shattering evening" Frank Rich, N. Y.

Times Tickets on sale now! Order by phone 698-6791 Oct. 31 Mat. interpreted in Amer. Sign Language ANNENBERG CENTER Univ. of 380 Walnut 81.

THE DRAMA GUILD Philadelphia's major professional theatre THE PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE! OLIVER OLIVER Delightfully Funny American Comedy by PAUL OSBORN Directed by Vivian Matalon Perls. Thru Oct. 28 Popular 50 BOX OFFICE (215) 898-6791 ZELLERBACH THEATRE Amenberg Center 3880 Walnut Street Smash Musical Hitl PIPPIN Now through Nov. 4 All Tickets $1 1 to $14 "The Slate Theatre ol Pennsylvania BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE New Hope, PA (215)M2-2041 TONIGHT AT 8 TOMORROW 6:30 9.30 THE AWARD WINNING SMASH HIT SHEAR MADNESS "The funniest murder mystery in the annals of crime" "Sheer Hilarity" Phila. Daily rVes CATCH IT AT Thurs.

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387-3014 Today at 2.00. Tomorrow at 8.30 Tuesday at 8.00 THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA CHRISTOPHER KEENE conducting Ivan Moravec, piano Program: works by Roise, Grieq. Roussel THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC Breed Locus! 81. Ttctiet (215) 003-1030 ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER AND FRIENDS FIRST U. S.

TOUR TICKETS $10 00 7:30 PM Show SOLD OUT! 10:00 PM Tickets available al the door Call 923-6946 lor Ticket Locations UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 33rd Spruce Streets Saturday Sunday. October 20. 21 6 Dance with the Bride MARTA RENZI and DANCERS THE PAINTED BRIDE 230 Vine St. 025-0014 Premiere of "THE WALDSTEIN SONATA" Oct. 25-28 Sal.

8 PM. Sun. 3PM $6 00 ANN VACHON DANCE CONDUIT CONWELL DANCE LAB Temple Univ. Broad Montgomery 707-5100 OPERA ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK Eve Queler, Conductor Philadelphia Debut MONDAY. OCTOBER 29 AT 7:30 A LIFE FOR THE TSAR (Ivan Susanin) (In Russian) Martti Talvela.

Jirina Markova Chris Merrill, Orlrun Wenkel Mendelssohn Club ol Philadelphia TAMARA BROOKS, Conductor Tickets: Parquet $40. Parquet Circle $30, Balcony Circle $20. Family Circle 15. Amphitheatre $5 For Tickets by Phone. Call Chargit al 665-8051 or 1-800-223-0120; or al the Bo Office ACADEMY OF MUSIC Broad Locust Streets (215) 893-1830 Tonight Only! The Emmy Award-winning production returns! OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA presents LA BOHEME starring winners of the first OCPLuciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition Box Office: 893-1930 Charge It: 665-8051 Season Subscription Inlormation: 732-58 1 1 $2 Student Rush Amphitheatre Tickets 7:30 PM at Box Office ACADEMY OF MUSIC Breed end Locust Streets I PM curtain Delaware Valley Opera Company presents THE STUDENT PRINCE Saturday.

October 200 PM $10 $12 Koowlck Theatre of the Performing Arts (Eaaton Olernlde, Pa.) CaO 330-0132 "OKLAHOMA" Roger and Hammerstein's acclaimed favorite musical Limited Engagement Eves from $17.95 Mats, from $16.95 Group discounts available Tickets Charge information Call 879-4000 CITY LINE DINNER THEATRE 4200 City Lin Avenue, Phtta. Tkketa: 179-4000 MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS "Great Broadway Musical' Limited Engagement Eves, from $18 95 Mats, from $16.95 Rates include dinner Group discounts available Tickets 4 charge information Call 925-7000 RIVERFRONT DINNER THEATRE Delaware Ave. et Poplar 01., Phlla. 025-7000 THE MOST HAPPY FELLA Frank Loesser's HIT MUSICAL Wed.

through Sun 1 7.95 to $22 95 complete Group Discounts Available HUNTINGDON VALLEYDrNNER THEATRE 2033 PhNmont Ave. H.V. (215)0474000 CHAPTER TWO A COMEDY BY NEIL SIMON Thurs Fri Sat. at 8 PM $700S6 00 studentsisenior citizens PLAYS AND PLAYERS 1714 Delencey St. (215)735-0130 A West Chester University Theatre Production NEIL SIMON'S CHAPTER TWO A COMEDY October 17-20 8 24-27 at 8 PM $2 00 Students A $4 00 General Admission For Reservations: 436-2533 FREE PARKING ADJACENT TO THE THEATRE TURK'S HEAD PLAYHOUSE High Roaedale Avea.

Wait Chester, PA IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM A Pulitzer Prize Play by Paul Green Directed by Kate Shaffmasler Fri. 6 PM, 7 PM thru Nov, 3 (The drama thai opened American theater to Black Actors) CAFE THEATER OF ALLENS LANE Allen Una ft McCaHum SI. t4S-9384 Hilarious Comedy Hit! Alan Ayckbourn's "TABLE MANNERS" NOW THRU NOV 4 ONLY! 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM $6 8 PM $7. Sat 8 PM $8 (Student, Senior disc.

Sun.) Group Rates: 635-1422 CHELTENHAM PLAYHOUSE 430 Ashbourne Rd. 370-4027 Theatre ol the Edge Opens Next Oct. 26 MINDS, MEANINGS, MANIPULATIONS 4 originals by Gallagher. Seldel. stepping.

Hebert Fridays Saturdays, 8 PM, Oct. 26-Nov. 10 Admission: $5. Students $4, Senior Citizens $3 WALNUT STREET MICRO THEATRE Floor Reeerv. (215) 232-0700 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY THEATER presents THE DIARY OF A SCOUNDREL by Alexander Ostrovsky October 16-20 Eve.

8 PM; Sun. Mat. 2 PM Gen. Adm. $9StudentsSr Cit Fac.

Staff $7 Tickets available at Tomlinson Theater Box Office 13th Norris SI Open 1-4 Mon -Fri. 787-1122 STAGE THREE 1010 Walnut St. 707-1122 NEW FREEDOM THEATRE presents Johnny Thompson's THE GOSPELERS a gospel musical book by Clay Goss music lyrics by Johnny Thompson directed by John E. Allen, Jr. Opens Oct, 4 Four Weeks Only Performances 7:30 PM Tickets $12.

Fri. 8:00 PM Tickets $15. Sat. 2 00 PM Tickets $12. 6 PM Tickets $15.

3:00 PM Tickets $15 tor reservations ft group rates call NEW FREEDOM THEATRE 1340 W. Breed St. (215) 785-2703 25th Anniversary Season Production JAMES JOYCE'S ULYSSES IN NIGHTTOWN Oct. 24 thru Nov 17 Wed thru Sat 8 PM Popular Prices 15 Major Credit Cards Philadelphia's Oldest Prolesstonal Resident Theatre SOCIETY HILL PLAYHOUSE 507 South SHI Street 023-0210 Agatha Christie's WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION Thurs. ($5 00), Fri.

($7.00) and Sal ($8 00) Eve. October 4th through November 24th Curtain 8 PM For more Inlormation call 565-4855 HEDGEROW THEATRE Roee Valley Rd. Friday, October KOUNG PEANG FAMILY Traditional Cambodian Music and Song THE PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER 230 Vine 01. 025-0014 By Rick Lyman Inquirer Movie Critic Ken Russell's repulsive new movie, Crimes of Passion, is the latest cockroach to crawl out of the psycho-sexual sink, full of artsy self-importance. It fancies itself an innovative exploration of repressed, middle-class kinkiness.

You may have heard something about the movie in recent weeks, as New World Pictures fought to have the film's rating changed to an R. Russell hacked out a bondage sex scene and a few other snippets to make the result sexually palatable to the people who rate movies. He should have kept hacking. Kathleen Turner, the recent star of Romancing the Stone and one of the best heavy-breathers in the business, plays a sexually uptight career woman who liberates her depraved desires by dressing up in a blond wig and trolling the midnight streets of the city pretending to be a hooker named China Blue. She's not a hooker for the money (indeed, in one scene she wraps her bubble gum in a $10 bill).

No, no. She informs us that she's a hooker because it's the only way she feels "safe." Say what? She explains that when she's play-' ing her sex roles at sleazy hotels, she feels completely "free" and can manipulate her hapless tricks like puppets in Punch-and-Judy shows of her devising. This all would be just fine and dandy if the movie approached the material with a little decadent slyness and a sense of fun. Kathleen Turner playing a hooker named China Blue? Sounds like an excellent opportunity for some good, clean, nasty fun. But Ken Russell fancies himself an artiste, and his odious pretentions take all the fun out of it.

He tries to turn the tale of China Blue into a stylized sex shocker with deep moral underpinnings, pumping it up with oodles of pseudo-significant drivel about freedom and maturity and Freudian masquerades. The scriptwriter, Barry Sandler, has provided some pretty good lines, but they get lost in the tumult. And Academy of Music A tour of the Academy of Music, a Philadelphia landmark at Broad and Locust Streets since 1857, will be con- ducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Visitors will see such areas as the stage, auditorium, dressing room and basement (with its famed acoustical CRIMES OF PASSION Produced and written by Barry Sandler, directed by Ken Russell, photography by Dick Bush, music by Rick Wakeman, distributed by New World Pictures; running time, 1 hour, 42 mins.

China Blue Kathleen Turner Shayne Anthony Perkins Grady John Laughlin Amy Annie Potts Hopper Bruce Davison Parents' guide: (nudity, violence, profanity) there are silly ones to offset all of them, sophomoric profanity passed off as shockingly candid repartee. Most of the good lines go to Anthony Perkins, who plays (you'll never guess) a psycho slasher. He's the Rev. Peter Shayne, the diseased conscience of the red-light district, who dreams of mutilating women with his razor-sharp vibrator and who's given to making cryptic, mondo-bi-zarro statements with a crazed look in his eyes. This is familiar territory for Perkins, and he seems to be having a good enough time.

Russell does display an occasional flash here and there, but the rest of his touches are creaky in the extreme. China Blue's den of iniquity, for instance, is right next to a blinking, neon "Hotel" sign that flickers on and off until you have a throbbing headache. What a daring visual statement! It's surprising that Russell a roaringly indulgent director even at his best is completely unable to draw anything but the most wooden performances out of his cast. Particularly John Laughlin, who plays the nominal hero of the piece, an ex-athlete hunk with marriage problems who gets obsessed with China Blue around the time she pulls off his socks. Someone should have pulled Russell over to the side during production and told him that Crimes of Passion was not the startlingly explosive shocker he apparently took it be.

It would have saved everybody a lot of pain and humiliation. to be open for tour well) of the academy, which is home of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Other academy tours are scheduled Nov. 13, Dec 11, March 19, April 9, May 7 and May 14. Tickets are $2, and reservations are required.

For more information, call 893-1935..