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CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1970 2 Section 5 CHICAGO ENTERTAIN EIENT CALENDAR Stand-By Penny Fuller Has Her Own Role-as Stand-By a By Carol Kramer South terrace of Museum of Science and Industry, today at 3:30. Free. VARIETY Sun, Joe Kelly, Witchcraft, and others. Free rock festival, De Paul university, Schmitt Academic center, 2323 Seminary tomorrow from noon to midnight. Ambergris, Country Joe and the Fish, Shocking Blue, Pacific Gas and Electric.

Aragon ballroom, Friday and Saturday at 8. "Free Soul" program of rhythm and blues, Grant park band shell, next Sunday from noon to 4. Groups include Albert King, Booker T. and the MGs, and Carl Holmes and the Commanders. A lilil NEW YORK In 1964, she stood by for Elizabeth Ashley in "Barefoot in the Park," then replaced her in the Neil Simon hit for 788 performances, co-starring with Robert Redford, Robert Reed, and Anthony Roberts, as the leading men went by.

Two years ago, she stood by for Jill Q'Hara in "Cabaret," playing Sally Bowles almost 100 times. "0, yes, this is really Penny Fuller says in her rather ironic manner as she sits in a spacious red-carpeted dressing room at the Palace, where she is playing the classic stand-by role of all time Eve Harrington, the girl who claws her way sweetly to the top in "Applause." The Broadway musical hit, as everyone knows, is based on the movie tlassic, "All About Eve," and in the movie, Anne Baxter played Eve to Bette Davis' Margo Channing. Mil 4 I rtiWl' Penny Fuller and Lauren Bacall in Broadway's "Applause." THEATER Continuing "Forty Carats," starring Barbara Rush, starts 35th week at the Blackstone, with closing set for July 22. "Hair," the tribal love-rock musical, starts 34th week at the Shubert. "Justice Is Done" or "Oh! Calcoolidge!" starts 15th week at the Second City.

"I Do! I musical co-starring Phil Ford and Mimi Hines, starts third of four weeks at the Auditorium. "Heartbreak House," starring Douglas Campbell and Paxton Whitehead, starts third of four weeks at the Goodman. "Max Morath at the Turn of the Century," Morath's one-man show of ragtime music, nostalgia, and Americana, starts second week at the Happy Medium. Coming "Promises, Promises," to the Shubert Nov. 2.

Outlying Body Politic, 2259 Lincoln av. "The Parson in the Cupboard," directed by Paul Sills, starts eighth week. Wednesday thru Sunday. Candlelight Dinner playhouse. Summit.

"Everything in the Garden," by Edward Albee, starring Ami Silvestre and Judd Reilly, closes tonight after four weeks. "Man of La Mancha," starring Lee Pelty and Delores Rothenberger, opens Tuesday and will run thru the summer. Country Club theater, Mount Prospect. "Come Blow Your Horn" closes tonight after 16 weeks. "Luv" opens Wednesday.

Drury Lane theater, Evergreen Park. "Life with Father," starring Forrest Tucker, starts sixth of eight weeks. In the Round Dinner playhouse, Archer and Mayfield avenues. "My Fair Lady" starts 11th week. Ivanhoe theater, 3000 Clark st.

"A Shot in the Dark," starring Tom Bosley, Anne Rogers, and Werner Klemperer, starts fifth of six weeks. "Lemon Sky," by Lanford Wilson, opens June 25, direct from off-Broadway. Kingston Mines theater, 2356 Lincoln av. "The People vs. Ranchman," by Megan Terry, starts 10th week with closing set for June 28.

Organic theater, 925 Diversey pkwy. Stuart Gordon's version of Homer's "Odyssey" starts third week. Thursday thru Saturday. Pheasant Run playhouse, St. Charles.

"Remains to Be Seen," starring Mickey Dolenz, starts second of four weeks. Shady Lane Farm playhouse, 3 miles west of Marengo on U.S. 20. "My Three Angels," starring Dale Benson, starts second of three weeks. "Goodbye Again" opens June 23 for four weeks.

MUSIC Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Irwin Hoffman, conductor. Popular concerts, Orchestra hall, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30. Soloist Wednesday: Raymond Niwa, violin. Soloists Friday: Victor Aitay, violin; Frank Miller, cello; Willard Elliot, bassoon; DeVere Moore, oboe; Richard Oldberg, horn; William Thomas McKinley, piano; Roger Cooke, bass; Richard Olderman, drums. Chicago Chamber orchestra, Dieter Kober, conductor.

I It "Toys in the Attic." However, in Toronto, a reviewer said, "It took Lillian Hellman nine years to write this play and Penny Fuller three minutes to ruin it." She survived that and in 1963, she and Dick Benjamin appeared in "As You Like It," in the New York Shakespeare Festival. In 1968 she appeared with Stacy Reach in "Henry IV," also in the Central Park Festival. She's also done "The Crucible" off Broadway and during the run of "Barefoot in the Park' she appeared on many television game shows. Her other television credits include East Side-West Side, The Defenders, and Naked City. While she was in California last year, she did a television pilot called The Wileys, a 1970 version of "The Thin Man." But it didn't sell, Penny says.

If it had, she couldn't have appeared in "Applause." But going to Hollywood, she thinks, was the turning point in her career. After being a stand-by so many times in New York, her sudden unavailability made her more attractive to New York casting agents. "I've been out of work," Penny says, "but I've never been desperate. I didn't suffer except in the sense of not getting out of the rut of being a replacement. Maybe I would have gone further if I had been more and then she claws the air But now she's glad she's been around for awhile and created a role as a young leading lady, not an Ingenue.

"Ultimately, I hope I'll be one of the great character actresses." replaced in Baltimore on Friday, Feb. 13, after three days of rehearsals. "I've never been fired," Penny says, knocking on her wooden dressing table, "but I can tell you, it's much worse io be the person who replaces. We both kept saying it was all right and the other girl wrote out a list of costume changes for me. She's very talented, but I've been around longer.

"The minute I looked at her, my eyes were full of tears," says Penny. But Miss Bacall, whose stand-by is Gretchen Wyler, said, "Well, kid, we're all in this together." A graduate of Northwestern university from the same class that produced Dick Benjamin and Paula Prentiss, Penny wanted to be an actress "prenatally." She recalls happy memories of June Haver and all those fun movies she saw while growing up in North Carolina. But her uncle, William David, was a Broadway actor who looked down on Hollywood, and when she first saw him, in "High Button Shoes," she went home and danced around like the female star. Her uncle's last role was as Pop in "Pajama Game." Penny's teacher at Northwestern, the famous Alvina Krause, "trained us for a theater that's not here, and I get disillusioned once in awhile," Penny admits. "I wish I were English so I could do repertory and then go back to London and appear in a hit play." However, in her 10 years in New York, Penny has done as well as anybody in preparing for a varied career.

Her first big break, just a year after arriving here, was in the national company of Now Penny, always a bridesmaid, never a bride, is playing Eve to Lauren Bacall's Margo Channing, and even tho the show could well be called "All About Margo," Penny does have special billing and at long last, she is creating her own Broadway role. On her dressing table, there's a framed movie still from "All About Eve," showing Anne Baxter trying on one of Margo Channing's dresses. But there are some ironies. A little girl named Bonnie Franklin has stolen some of Penny's glory by doing the big, brassy title number, "Applause," and both were nominated for Tonys as best supporting actress in a musical they lost. But Penny and Bonnie, who even resemble each other a little, don't seem to be bothered by professional jealousy.

On opening night, Penny gave Bonnie a photograph inscribed "To Ponnie, From Benny." And then it's not like Penny got the role with a snap of the fingers. Because of her stand-by reputation, friends kept saying, "You should play Eve Har- rington." The producers and writers thought so, too, because they auditioned Penny for the role three times. But as the concept of Eve Harrington changed from moment to moment in the minds of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, so did the casting. And when the play opened in Baltimore, Penny Fuller was in Hollywood and had just leased a cottage in Brentwood. But then the concept of Eve, who at 'first was going to be a very young semi -hippie type, changed to an Eve who's been around and only seems sweet and young at first.

Penny admits frankly that she is older than the girl she A perfect capriole is executed by Favor! Furioso, ridden by Herry Herrmann, lead rider for the Royal Lipazzan Stallions of Austria, which will present six performances of the "Airs Above the Ground" Horse Ballet at the International Amphitheater Wednesday thru next Sunday with matinees Saturday and Sunday. -AMUSEMENTS- -AMUSEMENTS- -AMUSEMENTS- AMUSEMENTS- J. ICnlcaaa Tribune Prtn Sarvict ma Rock Festival-a Mass Drug Culture Arrives Continued from page 1 playing sailor in a mud- mired rowboat looked at each other. One had just traded an empty wine bottle to a girl for a little yellow tablet. "Hey, be careful," one cau- yellow sunshine stuff.

Four people just went to the hospital." The group of people camped next to the two guys tioned. "They Just said that stuff's poison. Just take half of it." "You gotta go sometime, man," his friend said, washing the tablet down with a swig of fruit punch. As the mass exodus from the Kickapoo nation began early last Sunday morning, those remaining for Country Joe and the Fish and Canned Heat two headline attractions not scheduled to go on stage until midnight began stocking up while stuff was still available. And those pulling out still could buy a cap or two for the road or as gifts.

In a ditch along the trail leading to the exit gate sat a tired-looking barefoot figure in mud encrusted American flag pants and blue jean jacket who roused himself from time to time to make a final pitch: "How about some acid to take home to your mother?" AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS Subscribe now for 1970-71 Season For a detailed brochure call CE 6-2337 or write Goodman Theatre 200 S. Columbus, Chicago 60603 Thru June 28 only "I sat there Thursday night at Goodman Theatre as George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" set off on its majestic course and thought yes this is this is now a professional company." Glenna Syse, Chicago Sun-Times A superior example of resident theater, and a splendid way for Goodman to end its first year as a fully professional troupe." Richard Christiansen, Chicago Daily News "It Is an amusing and rewarding effort A fine way for Goodman to close its season." William Leonard, Chicago Tribune A production of meticulously polished surfaces That the Goodman has done so well on the level It has chosen to work Is a tribute to the staunchest members of this season-old resident professional company Roger Dettmer, Chicago Today outlets. Phone Reservations at CE 6-2337 Country Joe and the Fish, with Country Joe McDonald (second from left), headline the bill at the Aragon Friday and Saturday evenings at 8. Other groups scheduled include Ambergris and Pacific Gas and Electric. Tickets at all TICKETRON AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS LAST DAY ALAN KING nr I -1 VlSVl Mh The new MILL RUN THEATRE at Golf and Milwaukee Roads "Funny, warm and affectionate." "Charming, homespun Valentine." Syit, Sun-Tlinn "One of the best musicals of the century." Cut MogaiMt GRAND WORLD TOUR! in Niles, Illinois ROYAL LIPIZZAN "A REMARKABLE MUSICAL HIT." -LIFE MAO.

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