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nt iOCXwhafs happenin' eo THE MIAMI HERALD Friday August 17 1979 wl Christine Let's Country Gives Way to Humor rwjgnsTnl "yrv fT KITTY OLIVER broward entertainment editor most popular Cantonese and Szechwan Restaurant where the people go! Also serving the finest prime sirloin steaks featuring the 24-oz Continuous entertainment 2 AM Serving food 1:00 AM mm eservations Available THUNDERBIRD MOTEL 184th COLLINS AVE MIAMI BEACH FLA Phone: 931-7700 another band on the bill Galt Ocean Mile people admit the schedule is strange but the Baltimore Theatre did one performance of Fiddler On The Roof Aug 3 and the company is returning to the Fort Lauderdale beach hotel next Friday and Saturday (Aug 24-25) with the same show This is fourth year playing Broward but usually you have to be a condominium resident to catch their productions Now executive director Eugene Anderson has moved here and wants to make the Galt a summer home a $15 dinner-show tab or $5 for show only making the Continental Ballroom comparable in price if not quality to other area dinner theaters And Fiddler as decrepit as some of the winter acts that have been playing the room Now that the stage is crowded with 28 cast members bringing the hills alive with The Sound of Music' at the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre in Boca Raton six nights a week Catch Me If you Can is destined for the Oakland West Dinner Theatre Catch Me starring dinner theater producers Brian Smith and Jan McArt closed last weekend at Royal Palm because character actor Bernie Freidkin had another role schedule to start in mid-August Freidkin who played the colorful Catskill-styled detective Inspector Levine will be returning in September It is hoped that the mystery which did well in Boca as Royal first non-musical venture will perk up the business at Oakland West which lagged with two musical revues this After a decade as classiest country music nightclub the Country Music Cabaret suffered a quiet demise last week It changed not only owners but entertainment policy as well Contracts have been signed with a group of investors from New York who will be renovating the club at 1432 Federal Highway Into a new comedy club to be called The Comic Strip been working on this for eight to ten weeks looking for a good place and we expect to open the end of said Robert Wachs an attorney and one of the investors From the artsy decor to the talent the Fort Lauderdale club will be an almost exact duplicate of the Comic Strip that the same investors opened four years ago in Manhattan theme is a showcase for performers We pay acts but we get them exposure to producers managers and explained Wachs an entertainment lawyer whose clients include Soap star Billy Crystal the gymnasium the training be flying in some of the singers impressionists jugglers and comics who are alumni of the New -York club including some who have gone on to do television work But they also want local entertainers said Wachs Producers of a syndicated television show based on comedians competing for a shot at a nightclub engagement may be filming a South Florida laugh-off in mid-October The Comic Strip people hope to tie LABOR DAY WEEKEND HOLIDAY AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 3 1979 Doral Hotel On-The-OceanMiami Beach 4 DAYS3 NIGHTS weekend calendar From mmW A Per Person Double Tr Occupancy INCLUDES ALL TAXES AND GRATUITIES A frosty welcome drink Luxurious air-conditioned room with private bath color television Complimentary chaise lounge at poolside Complimentary day or night tennis Complimentary unlimited golfno greens fees including transportation Electric golf cart for two rounds (two persons to a cart) Day at the horse races (transportation not included) Complimentary valet parking Gala Sunday evening cocktail party For further information or reservations see your travel agent or call 532-600 and ask for reservations V' Vk the opening of the club with the television show and get some acts through the competition Summer must be ending because speculation on the Parker Playhouse season is starting About this time every year producer Zev Bufman starts leaking one or two choice Patrons then buy season subscriptions gambling that the lineup will get even better Considering that Bufman now has a circuit of 15 theaters throughout Florida and around the country and that the elegant but small (1100 seats) Parker a big moneymaker anymore we know that the newer and more popular the Broadway show the less likely we are to see it in Broward However the addition of the 1200-seat Gusman Hall to the Bufman stable this season will help because some of the Parker shows will be shared with Gusman This carrot is either Elephant Man or Whose Life Is It Anyway? as a season opener Dec 11 but those are just Sure things are Daisy Mayme with Jean Stapleton opening Jan 2 and The Kingfisher with Claudette Colbert Jan 29 Both are obscure ANITA GORDON GALLERY 800 Hallandale Beach Blvd Hallandale Work by American and Canadian artists MEDICI-BERENSON GALLERY 1052 Kane Concourse Bay Harbor Islands Gene Davis Larry Zox Charles Hinman Morris Louis paintings MEETING POINT ART CENTER 265 Aragon Ave Coral Gables "Organics to Machines" through today RAUCHBACH GALLERY 1008 Kane Concourse Bay Harbor Islands Simon Glickman Brun Freeman Dawiey ROBINSON GALLERIES 629 Miami Ave Miami Group show including work by Barbara Pope Therese Knowles James Hutchinson Ken Hughes Franz Joseph Bolmger VIRGINIA MILLER GALLERIES 3112 Commodore Plaza Miami Fernando Luis paintings WINDSORS GALLERY 3500 Miami Ave Miami Michel Thiam wood and ceramic sculpture THATR Professional CAROUSEL Robert Goulet stars as Billy Bigelow in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical about a trigger-tempered carnival barker and the woman who loves him Miami Beach Theatre of the Performing Arts 1700 Washington Ave Miami Beach tonight at 8 pm Saturday at 2 and 8 Sunday at 2 and 7pm ends Sunday tickets $8 50 to $1550 cal! 673-8300 in Dade 467-2855 In Broward SANTA CAMILA DE LA HABANA VIEJA Play in Spanish adapted and directed by Eduardo Corbe about what happened to Cuba's lower social classes after the revolution Teatro America 2173 SW Eighth St tonight and Saturday 8 30 Sunday 4 30 and 830 pm through Sept 9 649-0643 Dinner Theater THE SOUND OF MUSIC Weak overly sweet version of the musical story of the Von Trapp family starring Kay Brady as Maria Royal Palm Dinner Theater 303 Golfview Dr Boca Raton tonight and Saturday dinner from 6pm show at 8 Sunday dinner from 4pm show at 6 pm matinee Wednesday and Saturday with lunch from noon and show at 1 45 through Oct 14 $12 90 to $17 90 for meal and show 426-221 1 FROM BERLIN TO BACHARACH Tepid schizophrenic revue starring Hal Kanner and Joanne Wheatley featuring 40 songs from the past six decades Oakland West Dinner Theater 4850 Oakland Park Blvd Lauderdale Lakes dinner from 6 pm tonight Saturday and Sunday show at 8 30 pm through August $1405 to $1510 739-1800 GODSPELL The bouncy relentlessly cheerful musical version of the Gospel according to Matthew starring Tuck Milligan Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre 1001 Indiantown Rd Jupiter tonight and Saturday at 8 30 with dinner from 6 45 Sunday an nour earlier matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 1 30 with lunch from 11 45 a through Aug 26 $14 95 and $1695 746-5569 Children's Theater JEDEDIAH AND THE NATURAL AMERICAN WESTERN CURE An original shoot-'em-up western melodrama with lots of action and romance Players State Theatre Touring Company Coconut Grove Playhouse 3500 Main Highway Coconut Grove Saturday 10 30 a ends Saturday $175 adults $1 children 442-2662 CINDERFELLA The sexes are reversed in this version of "Cinderella" Merry-Go-Round Playhouse 235 Alcazar Ave Coral Gables Saturday and Sunday 2 30 pm adults $2 50 children $2 through August 445-8331 PIPSQUEAK PUPPETS Oversized colorful hand puppets in comedy skits for the kids Merry-Go-Round Playhouse 235 Alcazar Ave Coral Gabies every Saturday and Sunday af 1 pm si THE FROG PRINCE A children's musical Royal Palm Dinner Theatre's Little Palm Theatre for Young People 303 Golfview Dr Boca Raton last performance Saturday at 9 am through Aug 25 $4 426-2211 Movies Openings HOT STUFF (PG) Dom DeLuise's made-ln-Miami directing debut turns out to be a wonderful if unspectacular comedy about cops who buy hot merchandise DeLuise also stars along with Jerry Reed Suzanne Pleshette and Luis Avalos Miracle Byron Patio Cutler Ridge Kendale Lakes Gateway Margate Movies at Pompano Hallandale Plantation MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI (PG) Sequel to the splendid George Lucas pop-movie original turns out to be the blown film opportunity of the year so far Omni Hialeah Riviera 170th Street Westchester Coral Ridge 16th Street Ultra Vision Florida Recommended First-Run ALIEN (PG) Tom Skerritt In the very scary story of a team of astronauts who encounter a mysterious deadly creature In deep space THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (R) Truly frightening haunted-house tale supposedly based plays that will survive or die solely on the curiosity about the stars which was bumped from the lineup last season and replaced by Timbuktu is set for April However since the show did good business in its Dade County run and drew Broward people the Parker management will be asking opinions on whether a market for another run of the show The only problem now says manager Ron Wicknick is what to do about booking Parker between now and Dec 11 The last two or three years Bufman has staged his own pre-season shows of dance pop music and repertory theater This year nothing has been announced and several prominent community groups anxious to use the theater during the month of November in particular are in limbo because Bufman has first refusal rights ABOUT TOWN: The Muscular Dystrophy benefit at the Sunrise Musical Theatre next Monday has been cancelled The show was to star Dion The Drifters and Joey and the Starlighters but bandi quit and he refused to work with on fact with James Brolin Margot Kidder and Rod Steiger BREAKING AWAY (PG) Delightful look at Ilf after high school in America today told in the context of a bicycle racer and his three buddies DRACULA (R) Stylish triumph of form over substance as the hoary horror story gets a reworking with sexy Frank Langella in the lead ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (PG) Clint East-wood in a well-paced suspense film by Donald Siegel tracing the only successful effort to flee the infamous "Rock" THE MAIN EVENT (PG) Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in a delightful screwball comedy about a nutty businesswoman who owns a less-than-enthusiastic prizefighter MOONRAKER (PG) If you like James Bond movies you'll like this predictable latest with Roger Moore as Agent 007 tracking the arch-villain Hugo Drax in outer space THE MUPPET MOVIE (G) You'd have to be a churl or a frog-hater to be less than entranced with this loving transformation of The Muppefs from television to the big screen DALLAS FORTY (R) A raucous and funny look inside the pro-football pressure cooker starring Nick Nolte in a fine performance THE SHOUT (R) Alan Bates Susannah York and John Hurt in Jerzy Skolimowski intriguing and unsettling supernatural thriller set in an insane asylum Cinema Take One Recommended Returns THE DEER HUNTER (R) Michael On-lino's Academy Award-winning look at America's Vietnam War agonies starring Robert DeNiro Gal Lake Shore Drive in LOVERS AND OTHER RELATIVES (R) Another Laura Antonelli vehicle dealing wittily with sexual repression in the Italian family and directed by Salvatore Sampen Cinematheque ROME OPEN CITY (U) Roberto Rossellini's 1945 classic look at the war that was a pioneer of the Neo-Realist style Cine ClubMuseum of Science (Sunday) SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (PG) Disco raised to a social issue in the movie that made John Travolta a household word Lincoln SILENT PARTNER (R) Stylishly chilling Canadian production with Elliott Gould as a cunning bank clerk Tropicaire Drive In STAR WARS (PG) The spectacularly successful space opera makes its summer swing through town Multiple-theater run YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (PG) Mel Brooks makes hilarious mincemeat of the Frankenstein legend with Peter Boyle as the monster and Gene Wilder as fhe doctor Pembroke Pines Other First-Run AMERICATHON (PG) In this Intermittently funny comedy set in 1998 a bankrupt America is forced to hold a 30-day telethon to raise $400 billion to stave off disaster THE CONCORDE AIRPORT '79 (PG) Wretched fourth installment in the plane-in-perK senes with a ludicrous plot and cast to match DAWN OF THE DEAD (U) Grisly sequel to the low budget horror cult film "Night of the Living Dead Warning leave the children and anyone with a squeamish stomach at home 18 BRONZE MEN (R) More confusing kung-fu stuff starring the one and only Tami Sagun THE FRISCO KID (PG) Unfunny business with Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford as a rabbi and a gunslinger on the lam in the Old West THE IN-LAWS (PG) Alan Arkin and Peter Falk slip into slapstick when it's funny lines that are needed in the story of a wacky CIA agent who drafts an uptight dentist into one of his harebrained schemes JUST YOU AND ME KID (PG) The premise is promising but there's hardly a funny line in this would-be comedy starring George Burns as an eccentric ex-vaudeviihan who befriends a wary runaway Brooke Shields MEATBALLS (PG) Comedian Bill Murray stars in a surprisingly unfunny broadside about kids and counselors at a summer camp ROCKY (PG) The Italian Stallion aka Sylvester Stallone climbs back into the ring again In this wimpy sequel to the Oscar-winning heart-tugger of 1976 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING ODDBALL (G) So-so Disney comedy-fantasy pits space-age technology against medieval superstition when an astronaut and his robot are transported back to King Arthur's time UP FROM THE DEPTHS (R) Large hungry fish terrorizes guests at a Hawaiian resort hotel and that about sums it up THE VILLAIN (PG) Kirk Douglas Ann-Mar-gret and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a flabby comedy with a cartoon-Western backdrop THE VOYAGE (PG) Vittoria De Sica's modest final film starring Sophia Loren and Richard Burton in a tumultuous turn-of-the-century romance Grove Cinema (tonight and Saturday) Other Returns Revivals and Festivals ALPHA BETA Albert Finney Rechel Rob-erts in film version of the British play about an unhappy working-class couple Beaumont Cinema (tonight through Sunday) DUPONT LAJOIE (U) French' director Yves Boisset's attack on bigotry starring Jean Car-met and Isabelle Huppert FELLINI'S SATYRICOM (R) Overwrought excursion into excesses of classical Rome by the great Italian director GARAM HAVA (U) Indian drama of personal and social tragedy Beaumont Cinema (Saturday and Tuesday) aX If ill i 1 rrrW ROGER MOOREsfe JAMES BOND OOT Where all iQtW the other Bonds end this one i begins! nr MOON GREASE (PG) John Travolta Olivia Newton-John in movie version of Broadway nostalgia caper Lincoln HAIR (PG) The "tribal rock musical" doesn't translate so well to the screen Southport HEAVEN CAN WAIT (PG) Warren Beatty sprouts angel wings in this Insubstantial fantasy Flamingo MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (U First in a series of six filmed operas in German Beaumont Cinema (Sunday and Monday) SWAMI (U) Indian director Basu Chatterjee's sober look at a woman's adultery YOUNG BALLET DANCERS OF THE WORLD (U) A potpourri of dance Colony Midnight Shows (Friday and Saturday) BLAZING SADDLES (R) Riviera A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (R) Riviera EVERYTHING YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX (R) Hialeah FOUL PLAY (PG) Hialeah GROOVE TUBE R)Cine (Hollywood) KING OF HEARTS (PG) Cinematheque The Beatles' LET IT BE (PG) Hialeah LORD OF THE RINGS (PG) multiple-theater run THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (R Grove Cinema Florida (Hollywood) MUSIC SOUL King and Bobby Blue Bland Sunrise Musical Theatre 8 30 tonight 730 and II pnrw Saturday $9 CLASSICAL Guitarist Vance Koenig offers a program of classical music at the Northeast Branch Library 2930 Aventura Boulevard 1130 a today free JAZZ AND POP The Mark Colby Sextet and Robert Wuagneux at Hauiover Beach Park 10800 Collins Ave Miami Beach 1 pm Sunday free ROCK Shantr at Tight Squeeze Club 1201 Ocean Dr Hollywood Tonight 10 DANCE FUSION WORKSHOP A Fusion dance workshop wiH be held at the dance company's building 4542 SW 75th Ave 8 tonight free SPORTS GREYHOUND RACING The $75000 Super Marathon Championship Flagler Dog Track NW 37th Avenue and Seventh Avenue 8 tonight racing nightly except Sunday matinee 1 pm Saturday 50 cents grandstand $1 clubhouse SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS Tracy Caul-kins Cippy Woodhead and Steve Languist compete in the National AAU Senior Long Course Swimming Championships Fort Lauderdale International Swimming Hall of Fame Pool 501 Seabreeze Ave Fort Lauderdale preliminaries at 11 a finals at 7 pm through Sunday RUNNING Fort Lauderdale Runners have a 1 8 to 5 5-mile fun run at Birch State Park Fort Lauderdale 8 30 a Sunday call Al Ziemba 527-1495 Miami Runners six-mile estimate-your-time run at Matheson Hammock Pork 8 30 a Sunday call 666-9322 Miami Shores Club one- to seven-mile runs at community center 9701 NE Seventh Ave 8 am Sunday TENNIS Sunblazers doubles tourney at FIU Tamiaml campus courts through Sunday entry fee is $5 call 552-2255 or 552-2756 Intermedi ate lessons at FlU-Tamiaml campus today-Sept 18 6 15-8 call 552-2255 or 552-2756 Submitting Information Information for the Weekend Calendar must be submitted in writing at least a week in advance of the event to be listed Mail information including cost and address to Weekend Editor The Miami Herald 1520 Sunrise Blvd Fort Lauderdale Fla 33304 No information will be taken over the telephone Mondale RAKER VNTS lOR ART BUGS If! be splendor-in-the-grass time from 10 a to 6 Sunday when the 9 Broward Art Guild presents its first annual sum-9 mer art festival The event takes place on the headquarters lawn at 1299 Andrews Ave There'll be no charge for looking but the artwork wiH be for sale if you're so inclinea For more in formation call 462-6941 between 1 and 4pm THE SWING tf the word "music" stirs surh memories as "TD's Boogie' "Woodchopper's Ball" and "String of Pearls" then this is for you Tommy Mercer big band singer In the '40s with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey brings his musical tonight to George English Park 1101 4Bayvlew Dr Fort Lauderdale at 8 pm A spe-cial feature win be the song "Fort Lauderdale" which Mercer wrote and wants adopted as the official song The free concert is one of the Musicals being co-sponsored by the City Fort Lauderdale and Parker Theatre aXHE ROCKETS GLARE You'll have to bring your own folding chair or blanket to sit on (and no coolers or containers) but for S3 you can find a spot around Florida Atlantic University's out door stage and enjoy rock and roil by The Rock- Music begins at 8 Sunday at the stage a half-mile east of 1-95 on Glades Road In Boca Raton Gates open at 7 pm but tickets may be "purchased ahead of time at the University Cen Ter Information Desk Spec's Music in the Broward Mall Palm Beach Mall and Farmers Market In West Palm Beach Music Mart in Lake Park Sgt Pepper's In North Palm Beach and West Palm Beach Fox Surfboards in West Palm 'Beach and at Peaches In Fort Lauderdale The event is fust a small part of the Royal Palm Fes-'ylvaf sea related story Page 1C AQUARIUM SHOW The 24th annual show of the Florida Marine Aquarium Society wiH feature more than 100 saltwater aquariums on display end competing for trophies There will be films slides and lectures as wed as door prizes Mu-seum of Science 3280 Miami Ave 9am to 9 Saturday and 9 a to 5 Sunday ad-mission S2 ages 12-17 admitted for $1 under 12 r'free CHUNKS OP SKYLAB Fans of space debris VwiH enioy an exhibit featuring two fragments of -The fallen Skylab The pieces owned by WAXY (FM 106) are on loan to the Miami Space Tran--sitPlanetarium The radio station is offering a prize to the person who guesses the weight of -the chunks the winner's choice of a Skylab hunk or a gold ingot Through Sept 4 JET DRAG RACES Jet-powered dragsters fuel funny cars and wheelstanders will roar at the Championship Drag Races The bullet-shaped Jet dragsters are powered by surplus fighter- ptane engines and can go up to 285 miles per hour There will also be an auto thrill show and Florida Eliminator Championships with 300 local racers Miami Hollywood Speedway Park 16661 Hollywood Blvd gates open at 1 1 pm features begin at 8 pm ART Museums and Public Institutions fART AND CULTURE CENTER OF HOLLY-r WOOD 1301 Ocean Dr Hollywood Brow- ard County Art Teachers exhibition 'BASS MUSEUM OF ART 2100 Collins Ave Miami Beach Painting sculpture BAYFRONT PARK Miami Dade Library 1 Bis cayne Blvd Miami Arnaldo Pomodoro sculpture DE ARMAS GALLERY 6355 NW 36th St Virgin la Gardens Caribbean artists MORIKAMI MUSEUM 4000 Morikami Park Rd Delray Beach Museum of Japanese Culture: "Yamato Fla A Photographic Essay" through Oct 7 "Yaklmono: The World of Japanese Ceramics" through Dec 9 Campus Galleries BARRY COLLEGE 11300 NE Second Ave Miami Student Exhibition FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Temieml Trail and SW 107th Ave Miami Mire Mira Los Cubanos de Miami" pho-' tagraphs through Aug 24 MIAMI-DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SOUTH 11011 SW 104th Ave Miami Selections from the Permanent Collection Selected Commercial Galleries GALLERY GEMINI 245 Worth Ave Palm Beach Contemporary Painting sculpture GLORIA LURIA GALLERY 1128 Kane Concourse Bay Harbor Islands James Rosenquist Robert Rauschenberg GRANVILLE FISHER GALLERY 5728 Sunset Dr South Miami Granville Fisher paintings GRIFFITH GALLERY 5830 SW 73rd St South Miami "Summer Discoveries" group exhibition HARMON GALLERY 1258 Thfrd Street Na pies "Variations on the Human Figure" group exhibition IMPORTS FOR THE TRADE 26 NE 27th St Miami Dora Singer paintings Marco GALLeRY 9730 NE Second Ave Miami Shores Robert Stobs Ivan Longer dner paint jogs Joan Mondale HELD OVER! BEEN TELLING YOU IS THE FUNNIEST PICTURE IN TOWN HAVE YOU SEEN IT? IN CORAL CABLES frMMTT ALAN ARKIN kmg Chair Theatre SUNNYUSLESVTWIN 1075 INUUBMA H0UUVAR0 MAYBE A COUPLE OF PEOPLE IN OJUS A Boost From Mrs PETER FALK jjjHlEARlOUS WEEK! Last 7 Days Blvd Fort Lauderdale If nothing else the event Is a symbol of South emerging national presence in the arts Nobody questions that still a long long way to go for the area but the seriousness here is becoming more and more pronounced and Mrs presence adds to that mentality The works were purchased by the General Services Administration and selected by an art panel from the National Endowment for the Arts The program allocates one-half of 1 per cent of the cost of new federal construction to go toward buying art a program that has consistently been supported by Mrs Mondale and her helped has added visibility and clout 1 By ELLEN EDWARDS Herald Art Writer The federal program to put art in public buildings will get a boost in South Florida today when Joan Mondale wife of the vice-president dedicates three works for the new Federal Building and Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale Each of the artists whose work is being installed and dedicated Lynn Golub Gelfman of Miami former Miami resident Doug Moran and Sylvia Stone of New York is scheduled to be in attendance at 2:30 today for the ceremonies with Mrs Mondale the Carter most vocal and persistent supporter of the arts The event Is open to the public and the courthouse is located at 299 Broward 1.