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L. huusun stores Tfl iiiiiaTiirn y- iw MAMA BENEATH THE ROTHSCHILDS Leila Martin and Paul Hecht play the wife and son of the founder of the Rothschild family of international financiers, in the show which premiered Tuesday at the Fisher. MAYBE nnELLHD "GEORGE C. SCOTT GIVES ONE HELL OF A PERFORMANCE" John Laycock Windsor Star FREGES! THE END! nTi. BEST! WW rr v- 4fr "A war movie fnrneonle The Rothschilds has everything except music By JOHN LAYCOCK 4k, wnonaie riiKi color deluxe war movies'." Magazine "tmi ES23E1 They're calling it a musical, but music is the least of The Rothschilds' attractions.

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'BORN LOSERS' THEATRE Free Birthday Cake for MEMBERS from KRESGE'S! LLWJ 1 I rr CANADA SQUARE, 490 IIYHS101 0KIVE MSI TfUPHONE 252-I2M IN THE HOLIDAY INN ffirifi mini AffnfflfRf MH Cffmfff VIOXIs Two luxurious theatres tinder one roof, a completely new world oF motion picture entertainment and elegance. family's most socially conscious tycoon. Hal Linden and Paul Hecht play the two men with vigor and peeling. Indeed, the people are handled more smoothly than the history. To fly past the chronology, the show uses the narrative device of an "auction" in which certain "facts" are offered for sale.

The auctioneernicely played by Keene Curtis describes the political situation prevailing in the Royal Hessian Auction, the i French Imperial Auction, the British Free Enterprise Auction, and the Grand Alliance Auction (impressively staged). It is an uneasy, but necessary, link, rather reminiscent of Oh! What a Lovely War! Especially in the earlier scenes, however, the transition Trom family to finance creaks a badly as the scenery. A good deal of patience is needed in the first act. Not until Mayer puts his young sons to work does any scene have real drive. Throughout the show the best scenes involve Mayer and his sons developing their philosophy.

The humor, too, is spread too thin at the start, though gradually the pungent lines start to flow. Although the cast stumbled over its lines more than a professional company should, even at an opening, the performances were uniformly first-rate. The five sons are extremely strong, as is Leila Martin as Mayer's wife (and in the singing, at least, the music gets full treatment). Since The Rothschilds has a five-week run in Detroit and another three in Philadelphia before opening on Broadway in October, what I saw Tuesday night could be far Trom the show's eventual form. A little judicious pruning of the dialogue could be hoped for.

And maybe, just maybe, the stagers have some catchier songs tucked away somewhere. But the show is so strong in its other values that it doesn't appear to be a case needing extensive doctoring. The score, in fact, is probably the weakest part of the Broadway-bound show, which had its premiere at the Fisher Theatre Tuesday night. Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, who did Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof, and She Loves Me, have written songs that advance the narrative efficently enough. Several make impressive production efforts.

But none of the 20 musical numbers listed in the program sticks in the mind not on one hearing, anyhow Bock and Harnick have shown little of their previous flair for ethnic vitality. Their songs have less lilt and lament than before Their music is so overshadowed by other elements that The Rothschilds would be better called a historical comedy drama Sumptuously mounted. The Rothschilds has some oT the most elaborate costumes this side of the Ice Capades. Cunning lighting, and intricate sets that rotate and roll and fly up and down, add to the visual spectacle so much so that the mechanics occasionally upstage the action Michael Kidd's choreography is so clever that it attracts more notice in some of the musical numbers than the songs themselves. And the story has remarkable appeal, considering it is rooted in history's ledger-books It covers 60 years in the rise of the Rothschild family from peddlers in Frankfurt's Jewish ghetto to financiers for the governments of Europe.

This is no dusty tome, however. The show concentrates more on the Rothschilds' hunger for dignity than on their financial coups. Two men hold down the story. The first act is dominated by Mayer Rothschild, lounder of the dynasty, who believed the traditional Jewish docile stoicism and subservience could veil a drive for money, the source of all power and self-respect The second act gradually shifts to his son Nathan, equally brash but more impetuous, who becomes the FAMOUS PLAYERS; fn the beautiful new DEVONSHIRE MALI SHOPPING CENTRE 969-7651! CLINT EASTWOOD deadliest man 969-7651 on a whole army with two guns i.tM if i "If you liked HAIR, you will love WOODSTOCK." Jim Beebe. Toronto Star "One feels a tribal whoop of joy.

it is the song of the young." Martin Knelman. Globe Mail Ho one uuho uua there will eerbe theame. Bethere. Aim iisrrn 1r dynamite! Cantrell can't really do what she should A MARTIN RACKIN PRODUCTION HUES ADULT INTWTAiNMENT A UNIVERSAL PICTURE TECHNICOLOR PANAVISION RfCCMMFJDCDAS AMTUTERTAJKMEKT CONVENIENT SHOW TIMES REGULAR POPUIAR PRICES Mon. thru Fri.

at 7:00 and 9:00 pM Saturday at 5:00 7:00 9:00 P.M. KIDS'SHOW 2 P.M Sunday Continuous from 2:00 P.M4 ChiWn50e Students $1.50 Adult, $9 nn tiptoes up quietly behind the notes, slipping into unexpected nooks and crannies. She teases the songs, slipping in unexpected changes nice stuff. Her slow and medium-tempo program has been tastefully selected, mainly from hit-parade material but including some show tunes. The Top Hat band has been expanded to 17 members (including a string section) to give an unusually full sound.

She makes the best of it, with interesting arrangements containing some surprises. If she relaxed, dropping the hard 11, Lana would probably be more genuinely appealing. Certainly she has the capacity. Drop into movies NEW YORK Jim Gavin, a former helicopter pilot to President John F. Kennedy, has been set to pilot a helicopter in The All-American Boy, the Warner Bros, motion picture starring Jon Voight.

By JOHN LAYCOCK Lana Cantrell is silky, slinky, and not nearly so sexy as she seems to believe. She works hard to warm her Top Hat act up to a smoulder. Too hard the sultry temptress pose misfires. Her high cheekbones and windswept hair frame eyes that flash with challenge. In classic torch-singer stance she confronts the dropping dramatic, breathy pauses into her songs, ready to shout or whisper as the moment demands.

Yet the sexpot-singer role doesn't really fit naturally. Her on-stage presence is more brash than seductive. In the chatter between numbers, her hard Australian accent bites down distinctively and without enticement. And she hasn't got the throatiness or power of a brassy saloon queen. On fast songs she barely catches the edges of the words, perilously close to flatness.

Slow numbers are more her speed. On ballads her voice i i u- mirhnpl WOd eiqh produced by bob maunce free list suspended SKOAL PERFORMANCES AND PR.CES FOR THIS ENGAGEMEN ONLY yMOCCHlO Monday ftrU Friday: One and Sunday: 3 Showings at 2.00 II IN 'IN OlJTERfipLOR! AT- i Saturday Matinee $2.00 EVENINGS and all day Sunday $2.50 jaturaoy 3ZOMZ Mmk fUH AT THE 200" rou. and mino.