The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 492

STAGE NEWS Stars Cluster for the Bard THE AMFiHIOTIHIEATKE UNIVERSAL STUDIOS Hollywood Fwy at Lankershim atvm aTU 1 1 Villi ILarJM S3 Vt: a 0 di "Gala Benefit Performance" is a hollow public announcement phrase worn meaningless by the memory of so many performers who get on essentially to remind everyone else how important they are and leave behind them the dead air of a mediocre effort. But the enthusiasm of the performers who will appear next Sunday in "A Shakespeare Cabaret" at the Hollywood Bowl and the singularity of effort on the part of such a variety of entertainers to launch the Los Angeles Free Shakespeare Festival is extraordinary. Michael Dewell, who is coproducing the event with Renee Valente, jocularly described some of what we might expect. "I don't know where to begin. Everything is shaping up beautifully.

It's all going to be so 'unprecedented. Did you know Alice Cooper is flying out with Rita Moreno to do a scene with George Chakiris from 'West Side. Story'? And that Jean Simmons, who' with Roddy McDowall will sing from The Boys From is making her professional musical debut? Only yesterday Lome Greene called me up from Long Island, reversed the charges and sang to me for half an hour. I don't know exactly what he'll do yet, but he's marvelous. "Nancy Walker and Rock Hudson will also be doing numbers from 'The Jean Stapleton will appear in "A Shakespeare Cabaret" benefit at Hollywood Bowl next Sunday at 8:30 p.m.

Boys From Jack Klugman. and Tony Randall will do 'Kiss Me and Jean Stapleton has prom-1 ised that on Sunday night her Edith Bunker image will self-destruct in a Vegas-type act she's bringing in. The Waltons will do an original skit called As You All Like and, of course, Groucho Marx will be in and out of Please Turn to Page 42 STABS -n fVTVTAI VII mU KDAvJconcert Associates Present In Concert evening ol (MR- um 4.10 4 fi.30 pro tL Nisei Dee Davey 56.50, Clsscn Murray Johnstone TICKETS STIX Lonancncii nnenn SAT. SEPT. 8 8 PM All tickets nenreieived at J6 50 festlusl style Tickets Ivlilablt I 111 IlCMTPON OUUUS, WalliCh'S Music City Stoles, ieidlet i Jeidler, Pacific Steito.

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