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NY TONIGHT NIGHT 1LIIFTE BY STUART TROUP Making a fantasy of the 50s PRIZE-WINNING CONCERT. Steven Mayer, second-prize winner of last year's Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition for Pianists, will be in concert tonight at Carnegie Recital Hall. The program will include his prize-winning performance of Ives' Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Liszt's "Benediction de Dieu dans la Stravinsky's "Three Movements from Petrouchka," and Art Tatum's "St. Louis Blues" and 'Tiger Rag.

Tickets are $8.50 for the 8 p.m. performance. Call (212) 247-7800. TRUE STORY OF REVENGE. This Is for You.

Anna," based on the story of Marianne Bach-meier, who walked into a German courtroom In 1980 and shot the accused murderer of her 7-year-old daughter, resumes its limited run tonight at the Women's Ensemble Theatre. Curtain is at 8 tonight through Sunday night, matinees at 2 Saturday and Sunday, at the Manhattan YWCA, 101 Lexington Ave. tickets are $8.50. Call (212) Debbie Smith, Judith Pucci in This Is for You, Anna' Jack Stickney with Shout's trademark Caddy LAB FOR NEW PLAYS. The Theater of the Open Eye presents another in its series of New Stages Lab readings with "Connecticut Cowboy" tonight at 7.

With book, lyrics and direction by Shirley Kaplan and music by Arthur Siegel, this play with music was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Admission is free, though donations are accepted. The theater is at 270 W. 89th St. Call (212) 769-4142.

CRIMES AND OTHER OCCUPATIONS. "The Crime of This Life," a new play which attempts to depict the microcosm of New York from the plight of an Oriental in the dty to a pair of reporters trying to scoop the competition on the Pentagon Papers previews tonight to a March 6 opening. Curtain is at 8 Wednesdays through Fridays, Saturdays at 7 and 10 and Sundays at 3 and 730 at the Sanford Meisner Theatre. The theater is located at 164 11th Ave. Tickets are $16.

Call (212) 645-5372. FLATBUSH INDIANS? The Brooklyn Historical Society presents the first in a series of free lectures on 17th-Century Indian life in Brooklyn, also the subject of its latest exhibition. Tonight's lecture by Bert Salwen of New York University's Anthropology Department explores archeological sites associated with Indians in the tri-state area. It begins at 6 at the historical society, 128 Pierrepont Brooklyn Heights. Call (718) 624-0890.

Steve Parks HOUT, the rock dance club at 124 W. 43rd is a repository of pulsations from the 1950s and 608; an exciting audio-visual exhibition attended by a flowing sea of young people, most of whom were conceived at about the time the music was first being heard. "What weve tried to create is a fantasy club, according to owner Jack Stickney. "It's whist should have been built in 1959 and wasn't. A full-sized 1959 Cadillac, with its preposterous tail fins, appears to be bursting through the stage wall; Elvis Presley looks pensive, Marilyn Monroe inviting and Buddy Holly cheer-fill in large portraits done by Gregory Hill.

Dots of light reflect on the dancers from the huge rotating mirrored ball at ceiling center. A perimeter of blue and yellow neon outlines the balcony, from which the less active can watch from wide seats that once filled automobiles like a drive-in, replete with speakers at your elbow, overlooking the dance floor, the large video screen and the choreographed performers who step or skate across the stage from time to time. "Were not a snobby club, said manager Jeff Greene during a tour of the premises. "There are no private rooms like they have in other dubs. At the rear of the balcony are two life-sized mannequins Theyre supposed to be the Kramdens, Ralph and Alice, Greene noted and an Easy Rider-style motorcycle.

The building once housed the Henry Miller Theater, and later Xenon, which closed in 1983. Now perched in the area that once held the left-balcony box seats is deejay Eliott, surrounded by an extensive collection of rock recordings from the 50s and '60s. "I have at least 15,000 records, owner Stickney said, "with about 7,000 usable titles. "We opened on the first of August. I had a rock and dance place at Thirty-Ninth Street and Second Avenue called NYC Jukebox.

It was such a big success that when this space became available we decided to take it. Stickney is a tall, ruggedly handsome man who grew up with the music Eliott spins: The Beatles, Creedenee Clearwater Revival, the Animals, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens. "Basically, were just a fun dance club, with what I still believe is the most danceable music, he said. "Were like an alternative to all the other clubs. They all play the same type of disco music.

Shout is a singalong club, a completely different atmosphere, with higher energy. "I think the most amazing thing is because of films such as The Big Chill and others that the younger generation has become aware of this music. A twenty-one-year-old knows the music as well as I do. It begins at 9 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday ($10 entry). Tomghts theme is a tribute to the miniskirt, and any woman wearing one will be admitted free before 10:30.

Tomorrow night, dips from "The Dick Van Dyke Show, which had a five-year TV run until 1966, will be shown. The Shout dancers will demonstrate the steps of 20 and 25 years ago Friday night: The frug, the swim, the popcorn, the pony, the jerk, the hully gully, the boogaloo and others. Arts and entertainment begins on Page 45. At Roaeland, the ballroom at INSIDE 239 W. 52nd the dancing is usually more sedate: the fox trot, the lindy, the rhumba, the tango.

Those who never learned them, or who have forgotten how to do them, can get free lessons at Roaeland Thursday evenings through March. Tomorrow nights course is the rumba; the following week, the lindy. Admission is $7. The rock revue "Beehive has left Sweetwaters (170 Amsterdam and singer Teresa Burrell, a velvety performer who was in "Dreamgirls, has moved in through Saturday evening; $10 minimum, music charge $10 tonight and tomorrow night, $15 Friday and Saturday nights Carol Sloane, a singer of bright phrasing and innovation, is performing through Sunday at Freddyh Super Club, 308 E. 49th St, tonight and tomorrow night at 9 ($12 music charge), Friday and Saturday evenings at 9 and 11 and Sunday afternoon at 3 two-drink minimum The Pturk Ten, at 10 Park restarts its music policy tomorrow evening with Susannah-McCorkle, through March 15; at 9:30 Tuesday through Thursday ($10 music charge), at 9:30 and 11:15 Friday and Saturday $10 minimum Mel Tonne and Jack Jones will appear together at 8 Saturday night in the Fourth Annual Jazz America Series at the Lehman Center of the Performing Arts, Bedford Park Boulevard, Bronx ($15, $13, $11).

2 Part II NY newsday, Wednesday, February 26. i986 Corrections The fragrance Valentino is a product of the fashion designer, Valentino. The fashion and fragrance designer, who goes by his first name only, was confused in last Sunday's In Fashion section with Mario Valentino, another designer who specialises in leather goods. An item in yesterdays At the Theater column misstated the opening date of "Williams and Walker at the American Place Theater. The show begins preyiews Thursday and officially opens March 9.

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