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Guests have a ball on Paramounts stage. About, 4C SECTION Ann Landers 2 Television 6 Comics 10 ACTION CLASSIFIED INSIDE YK MV NR Gannett Suburban NewspapersFriday, April 23, 1993 THEATER REVIEW The pinball wizard comes to Broadway By Jaoquea letourd Staff Writer Some musicals send the audi-' ence out humming the tunes. At the St James Theatre on Broadway, where-The Whos Tommy opened last night the audience goes in humming the tunes. This is a new show with a ready-made following: It started as a rock album by The Who in 1989 and became a movie in 1975. Now it is a dazzling, $6-million spectacle credited to The Whos Pete Townshend, directed and partly written by Des McAnuiT.

There are no big names onstage, but the stars are the scenery, by John Amone, fall of video and special effects, and the lighting, by Chris Parry, which at one point turns the inside of the theater into a pinball machine at fall tilt. Not surprisingly, Tommy appears to be drawing not just graying boomers who feel nostalgic for The Who, but their kids, too. This musical is very loud and moves visually at MTV speed. Warning: No one older than 45 need apply. Cleverly located just across the street from The Phantom of the Opera, Tommy is poised to receive the overflow from that favorite tourist attraction.

Its the show your nephew from Dubuque will want to see. This rock opera will draw young people who dont go to the theater much, for whom Broadway means Cats, Les Miz and Phantom." But any kid who sees Tommy as his first Broadway show may decide to acquire the habit It's not a bad way to start going to the theater. The Hitler creates a large presence: child has a mwrap reveals his life before success. In Peter O'Toole's 'Loitering With Intent for Staff Writer Peter OToole picks up the phone, but he is singing, not talking. Ba-da-bum-bum-bum, ba-da-bum-bum-bum.

The Blue Danube Walts, rendered lightly in that distinctive baritone. Yes, well, I'm obsessed with rivers at the moment, O'Toole says from Washington, D.C. I opened my hotel window in Minneapolis and there was the Mississippi And I thought, What are you doing here? The Mississippi begins in Minnesota: So I learned, OToole says. But Av an alien to find the Mississippi well, I immediately wanted to know where the riverboats were. But they did have them paddle-steamers and alL I tried to go to church in Minneapolis on Easter, but for the time I went, all the churches were ckwed.

So this person who was driving me around took me to F. Scott Fitzgerald's house instead. I had no idea he was from there. It was a lovely, modest little tiling in the midst of all this opulence. Yes, yes, yes the topic is supposed to be OToole's book, Loitering With Intent The Child (Hyperion, But give the man a chance.

He is, after all, on the final stop of national tour to promote what is being touted as the first of three volumes of his memoirs: This is my 10th dty, he says, sounding weary. Im a little unearthed, but I'm OK-ish." O'Toole More to the point, why should O'Tooles conversation be any more direct than his bode? Which is to say, why shouldnt he talk impressionistically about his life when thats how he writes about it? Actor ANIMAL DOCTOR BY MICHAEL FOX Dont let cat bully other fejine for food QuaeMeiii I have two cats Tasla and Penny. My problem is that Tails eats everything and more and is very fit, and Penny hardly eats at all and is very IfTasla sees me give Peany some food, she immediately tries to prevent Penny from eating it, until in frustration. Penny leaves. Is there any way to change this situation? J.M.

Anewen Cats don't always show their dominance by fighting or threatening to fight Rather, once they have worked out who is boss in various situations such as at meal times or at a favored sleeping spot the subordinate will quietly slink away. You must supervise meal times for your cats, and I suggest four small meals a day. You must stand there and stop the dominant cat (Tasla) from preventing the subordinate cat (Penny) from eating. And you must en- courage Penny to eat A cardboard partition on the floor between the two cats, so that they cant see each other, may help. Rawing over dogfs home Ck My husband and I have a pet dog, Victor, who lives in our garage.

Sometimes my husband will leave the car running for a short while if he plans to go out again. When he does this, he closes the door so Victor won't runaway. Im worried that this is a dangerous situation for our dog, but my husband says that carbon monoxide Aimes don't harm dogs. Please, settle our dispute. L.H.

Ai First of all, a garage is certainly not the right place for a dog to live. Dogs are pack animals, and you and your husband are for better or worse Victor's pack. So he should live in the house with you. If that's not acceptable to you, then Victor should have a proper enclosure and kennel outdoors and, ideally, a dog com-panion to live with. Carbon monoxide is used to kill cats and dogs in some shelters.

I thought everyone, even children, was aware that carbon monoxide Aimes are toxic. To settle your dispute, you couldn't And a worse place to leave your dog than in a locked garage. Your husband should show a little more common sense and compassion. i Ck We have had a beautiAil white singing canary for about a year now. About six months ago, he stopped ringing.

The pet store where we purchased him has no answers Air us. Our bird is very healthy otherwise. Do you have any answers? E.S. AfThe ringing of canaries is influenced by a number of factors- sexual maturity, genetics and Social experience. The fact that your bird was a good singer and then stopped could mean that he has a hormonal imbalance that may be due to obesity or a diet-related deficiency.

Too much millet seed, for instance, is not only fattening, but can adversely afreet the birds thyroid gland. Many caged birds suffer from thyroid disease. Your bird needs a good veterinary checkup. Its also possible, of course, that your canary is lonely for his own kind and needs social stimulation to motivate and inspire him to ring. Dr.

Michael Par, a syndicated writer, isa veterinarian and director qf The Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C. Send questions to Dr. Fox, in cars of United Features, 200 Park Av New York, N.Y. 10166. Rex is a 2-year-old neutered husky He it available for adoption from Putnam County Humane Safety.

Call 225-7777. of of as They call it The Who's Tommy" but it is really Broadways Tommy," with state-of-the-art stagecraft by McAnuiT, who gave us Big River, and dances in the Broadway idiom by Wayne Cilen-to. Cilento owes most here to Patricia Birch, who created the dances for Grease, and to his mentor, the late Michael Bennett. Yet the music is purely rock, the dominant sounds being the twang of an electric guitar and the falsetto of an amplified voice. Show music it isn't, but it sticks to the ear.

The songs (only one has been added for Broadway) are those so Please see WIZARD, 7C Ten-year-old Buddy Smith plays a young Tommy in 'The Who's Tommy1 at the St James Theatre on Broadway. great roisterers of his time (though he professes not to have had a drink Air almost two decades because of stomach problems). None of that, however, is dealt with at any length in Loitering With Intent" Obviously, thats what the punters want" he says, the stories of film, stage and TV. And thats what they will get But to be fair, nobody knows the child. And I saw that story as an end in itself.

Part 2 will be Tim Actor' and Part 3 wiU be The And will he follow the current autobiographical trend of naming names and sparing no one? Well tell alt he says grandly, tell all. If thats the case, the accomplices of his youth must be quaking in their boots. Good, O'Toole says, and his obvious smile of satisfaction is practically visible over the long-distance wire. The book captures his boyhood memories but focuses particularly on two men. One is his father, CapL Pat OToole (whose honorific was a remnant of his leadership of a soccer team), a bookie by profession and gambler by avocation: They dont go together very well, says O'Toole.

Yes, by 1938, he had run out of credit By the beginning of the war, he was busted. But he made a comeback during the war. Even more than O'Tooles father, however, it is Adolf Hitler who creates a large presence in the book. As a boy coming of age during the Blitzkrieg of London, OToole saw Hitler as his own private demon, a man whose sheer force of evil wreaked havoc on his life and the PI ease see OTOOLE, 7 (STILL) played the title role in Lawrence of Arabia' Loitering With Intent is most distinctly a memoir, rather than a straight-ahead autobiography. I had an Urge to write but didnt know what, O'Toole, 60, says, then adds, Hang on.

I'm putting a little cigarette in my mouth to keep me cheerAil. There. The idea of a linear biography didnt interest me. And an editor at the publishing company said to just write what I felt The result is a dizzying set of recollections that wander back and forth in time, as memory strikes. Most of the book deals with OToole's life up to the age of 20, as he was about to enter the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

But it stops just as his career is about to get under way. OToole still retains the reputation as one of the WHATS WHAT JACOBSON WHArS HAPPENING? that is tailored to all kinds of artistic tastes. One Size Fits All WHATS NEW? MutyandttMbMt rhe latest celebrity to throw her tard into the exercise ring is Jaclyn Smith, whose "Workout for Beauty and Balance (CBSFox Video, $19.98) includes aerobics and toning routines. What i makes this i tape different (is the emphasis on is a multicultural outdoor festival of dance, music, poetry, video, sculpture, printings and slide projections. The event, the brainchild of artist and SUNY Purchase graduate Carlos Cruz, is scheduled to be presented in the Big Apple this frill and then across the country.

One Size" takes place from noon to 11 p.m. today and tomorrow. (The rain date is Sunday.) Admission is free. SUNY Purchase is on Anderson Hill Road between Purchase and King streets. For more information, call 789-2113.

Musleman Hollywood isn't the only place where you can take a bus tour of the stars' homes. From 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, the New Rochelle Council on the Arts and the College New Rochelles Castle Gallery will conduct a tour of the citys artistic past Youll see the places where Norman Rockwell printed, Vernon and Irene Castle perfected the Am trot and the big band sound reigned (Glen Island Casino). Youll also see the Amner home Peter Lind Hayes and wife Mary Healy, TV and radio personalities, well as that of writer-producer Carl Reiner, who used New Rochelle as the setting for Rob and Laura Petrie's abode in The Dick Van Dyke Show. The tour costs $25 and begins at City Hall, 515 North Ave.

To register, call 632-3990 or 654-5423. Pwfectflt This weekend, the State Universitfbf New York College at Purchase plays host to an event Sing along with guitarist Greg Ryan, who performs folk favorites at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Harrison Public Library. minute segment on her own beauty Thuymcert is free. The library tips, a is on Kuce Avenue.

For more Compiled by Infbrmation, call 8354)324. i staff writer Georgette Gouveia is a longtime ballet buff, and a 16-.