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EDITED BY ERNEST LEOGRANDE YOU CAN STILL GET TICKETS TO 1 At press time, tickets are stilt available at box offices for tonight's performances of these Broadway shows. There are sometimes half-: price tickets available at TKTS, 47th St. and Broadway, or at the Lower Manhattan Ticket Center, 100 William St. "The Potsdam Quartet" is a double-edged title. Oh one hand it refers to the four men who met at Potsdam, Germany, in 1945 to determine the future of Europe and military action against Japan: Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Clement Attlee.

It also refers to four musicians, hired to play chamber music to soothe the headaches of the conferees during breaks. The play, by David Pinner, opens tonight at the Lion Theater (422 W. 42d St: 249-2400). It originally was presented in London and is being done here by the New York Theater Workshop, a new company. The play never shows us the Big Faces.

They're offstage. What we see and hear are the musings of the four men commissioned to be the musical accompaniment, as they take their own breaks while the talking resumes in the other room. This bit of adroit stagecraft makes it possible for actors who are not musicians to portray musicians. The play's twist is what happens to these four musicians, how they change in their relationships among themselves as they watch the shape of the world being manipulated across a table. The Workshop, a year old, is run by a board of eight persons.

This is its first major production in the hands of board members Stephen Graham and Alison Clark-son. One of the projects the Workshop hopes to do next, Graham said, is a musical based on the memoirs of Dorothy Dandridge. llllill The Potsdam Quartet" musicians Gomo musical sounds in the night A Chorus Line, Shubert. 246-5990. (all sections) Ain't Misbehavin', Belasco.

354-4490. (all sections) Amadeus, Broadhurst. 247-0472. (orchestra and front mezzanine) Annie, Uris. 586-6510.

(all sections) Barnum, St. James. 398-0280. (all sections) Children of a Lesser God, Longacre. 246- 5639.

(all sections) Crimes of the Heart, Golden. 246-6470. (orchestra and rear mezzanine) Dancln', Ambassador, 541-6490. (all sections) Deathtrap, Biltmore. 562-5340.

(aU sections) Dreamgirfs, Imperial. 265-4311. (rear mezzanine) Evita, Broadway. 247-3600. (all sections) Grown Ups, Lyceum.

582-3897. (all sections) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Ftoyale. 245-5760. (rear orchestra and mezzanine) Lena Home, Nederlanoer. 921-8000.

(standing room) Little Me, Eugene O'Neill. 246-0220. (all sections) Macbeth, Circle in the Square. 581-0720. (all sections) Mass Appeal, Booth.

246-5969. (aU sections) Oh I Edison. 757-7164. (all sections) Othello, Winter Garden. 245-4878.

(all sections) Sophisticated Ladles, Lunt-Fontanne. 586- 5555. (all sections) Special Occasions, Music Box. 246-4636. (aH sections) Sugar Babies, Mark Hellinger.

757-7064. (all sections) The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, 46th Street. 246-0246. (balcony) The Curse of an Aching Heart, Little. 944-9450.

(orchestra and mezzanine) The Dresser, Brooks Atkinson. 245-3430. (all sections) The Pirates of Penzance, Minskoff. 869- 0550. (all sections) The West Side Waltz, Barrymore.

246-0390. (rear mezzanine) of Tina Turner and Bessie Smith in a show meant for Broadway (although it didn't make it), which will give you an idea of how she sings. She's appearing at 10 and midnight tonight and Saturday at the Other End (147 Bleecker 6i Pacific Orchestra, despite the name, is a rock and roll band out of Key West They'll be opening at midnight tonight for Nona Hendryx at Trax (100 W. 72d 799-1448) Poez does poetic monologues as if they were music. A 45 record of one, "The New Wave Pizzeria," will be available when he appears tonight at 9:15 and 11 at Folk City (130 W.

Third 254-8449). One of trumpeter Jonah Jones' first gigs, when he was in his 20s, was on a Mississippi riverboat Tonight and Saturday, he's sailing with his quartet through the Cafe Carlyle (35 E. 76th 744-1600) Alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman will be guest soloist at 8 tonight with the City College Jazz Band at Aaron Davis Hall, on the City College campus (134th St. and Convent 690-4100). Coleman will premiere a suite of themes for the movie "Box Office," for which he did the score John Anderson has been nominated for a Grammy for best male country singer for his "I'm Just aa Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond SomedayX" Tonight he can be heard at 10 and 12:30 at llto fins! strssw To the Irish, the years of the Famine were almost as traumatic as the Holocaust to Jews.

Centuries of political problems, oppression by English landlords, illiteracy they were able to survive through it all. But the failure of the potato crop in 1845 was the final straw: one third of that tiny country's nine million population-died and millions more left for greener pastures, most notably America and its golden-paved streets. Thomas Murphy's play "Famine," which begins performances tonight at the Irish Rebel Theater, at the Irish Arts Center (553 VV. 51st 757-3318), dramatizes the struggle of residents in a small village in Ireland at that time simply to exist while being starved out of existence and out of any dignity. "Famine" marks the beginning of the 10th production season of the Rebel Theater, according to its artistic director, Brian O'Mal-lon.

It will be performed Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 and Sunday afternoons at 3 through Feb. 28. Patricia O'Haire Sundown (227 E. 56th 755-1723). Peggie Blue sang the roles i Li Womoa viih a EiioiinQ CM oo at fictionalized documentary in which he plays a director trying to make a movie about Vaslav Nijinsky's daughter, Kyra (played by herself).

"Akropolis," a 1967 movie, is being shown today through Sunday at the Agee Room of the Bleecker SL Cinema (144 Bleecker 674-2560). This is a filmed version, made for TV, of a production by director Jerzy Gro-towski's Polish Laboratory Theater, a figurative look at Auschwitz. The play was done in New York in 1969. Grotowski mixed actors and audience, an experience that can't be all that effective when watching a film of the process, but it's a permanent JO i a Bud Cort can be seen at the Thalia (250 W. 95th 222-3370) today and Saturday in two movies.

One is the American premiere of a 1970 Canadian feature, "Why Shoot the Teacher?" He plays a shy teacher who comes to a Canadian village during the Depression and encounters hostility as an outsider. He is saved by the love of a married woman, played by Samantha Eggar. The other feature is the 1972 movie, "Harold and Maude," in which the love of Ruth Gordon saves him from suicidal depression. Cort, who has turned a flaky stare into a trademark, also will be seen Feb. 18 at the Little Carnegie-in "She Dances Alone" a 2 record of work by world-famous director.

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