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ib gr ENTERTAIN ENT (MUSICIREVIEW i BROADWAY MO Instrumental In Waking Up New Age TtUL Instrumental music for New Age romantics Tuesday night at the Gershwin Theater 222 51 SL Manhattan where he performs ttsough Sunday By Ira Robbins STAFF WHITES fELL I fall asleep Actually there was little chance of that Few his Broadway debut Greek-born keyboard star Yanni assembled a 50-piece orchestra to augment his regular group which features a drummer a percussionist an electric bassist two synthesizer players and a fiery fiddler And music is hardly the pale ambient wallpaper of New Age cliche His uncomplicated multicultural confection which sounds variously Ufa John Williams film scores and instrumental Abba tunes peals with enough layers of volume drama and rhythm to distinguish it from modem Mantovani Drum solos a fierce violin duel and funky bass popping all cropped up in 100-minute performance the launch of a coast-to-coast tour in support of his My Time" album Though the audience was dearly there to be soothed and seduced by the handsome star it was the loud bursts of energy by others onstage that elicited the most enthusiastic response The imperturbably cod Yanni smiled a lot and never broke a sweat The dynamic center was violinist Karen Briggs who grimaced and sawed wildly and drummer Charlie Adams who jumped at every opportunity to go wild on the skins Perhaps the audience Yansf isnres up Please see YANNI on Page 93 1DANCE1REVIEW Loves Looking Rosy I BORROW an old royalist shout: Broadway is dead! Long live Broadway! The season is over gone fini Tonight the new season begins with Roundabout revival of Loves Although the reviews be out until tomorrow the show is already eqpying unusually good word of mouth and has been given at least a one-week extension beyond the originally scheduled July 11 closing Can talk of a move to a bigger theater be far behind? Of course not already begun fueled by news that one of the major Broadway players the Nederlander Organization is helping the Roundabout production with enhancement money and holds the rights to move the show Loves can extend at Roundabout only through Aug 1 because the next production the Peter Shaffer double-bill Comedy The White is set to open early that month One suggested new venue for the production is the Nederlander Theater another is the Nederlander-owned Brooks Atkinson no discussion about what the going to be until the notices come Nicholas Scandal ios assistant to chairman James Nederlander said official opening will mark the first fidlscale Broadway production of the Jerry Bock-Joe Masteroff-Sheldon Hamick musical since its 1963 premiere The cast includes Judy Kuhn Sally Mayes Howard McGillin Boyd Gaines Lee Wilkof Louis Zorich Brad Kane and Jonathan Freeman They are committed through Aug 1 Roundabout artistic director Todd Haimes said sure most of them hope the play will have a It will be up to the Nederlander Organization to negotiate casting for any move Haimes said not going to even remotely comment on Scandal ios said in answer to questions of casting Casting About Yes that was Matthew Modine in the audience at Goodbye the other night and yes deep in discussion about taking over the lead when Martin Short bows out of the musical in August No word yet on who might be in line to replace costar Bernadette Peters also expected to leave then When goes into rehearsal Monday Donna McKechnie will be a new addition to the cast The sinuous Tony-winning actress-dancer from Chorus plays a mousy welfare worker who stakes a claim on Daddy heart Her rival in romance will be secretary played by Marguerite MacIntyre MacIntyre and Harve Presnell as Warbucks are holdovers from the pre-New York tour of the West Coast Previews begin July 7 at the Off-Broadway Variety Arts Theater Murder She Wrote Jacquelyn female buddy play has received the Green wall $15000 Oscar Ruebhauaen Commission It will be staged during the coming season at Manhattan Class Company which gets $10000 from the foundation to help mount the production Co-executive directors Bernard Telsey and Robert LuPone described plqy as part surrealistic part realistic and all feminist The central character is Tish a topless Hanmr whose best friend Jean is murdered Tish becomes obsessed with finding the killer The three minutes in which Tish decides to trap the murder suspect stretch into 80 minutes of playing time as Please see KOENENN on Page 93 More Theater Less Ballet Janice Berman and a steady flow of social-dance movements and recombinations as well as modest ballet steps There was just one good-size pirouette in the entire 40-minute ballet more theater in short than ballet But nobody was keeping score Far more interesting to watch the interplay of characters The veiled jealousy of the aging Mme de Merteuil and the commanding sHminess of Valmont were set against the idealism of le Chavelier Danceny (Clinton Luckett) the naivete of Cedle Volanges and the devotion of Mme de TourveL Holder created some memorably heated moments not by sticking them in our faces Kenneth MacMillan-style but by suggesting what would soon happen aartnctirm of Cedle culminates in hia pulling the strings cm the sleeves of her nightgown for a moment his puppet Not PC but pretty sizzly Van portrayal is marvelously enigmatic kept us at a distance until the final moment when Mme de Merteuil picks up Valmont's sword been drawn into the web caught her- Together we wonder what do with that sword Splendidly dancedact-ed this is a marvelous addition to repertoire is Frederick pure-dance interpretation of Cesar music Made in 1946 it carries an implicit theatricality the drama derives from the interpretation of the music by a sextet of dancers performance was about as good as it gets with Parrish Maynard Ashley Tuttle Susan Jaffe rarlM Askegard Amanda McKerrow and Gil Boggs embodying the spirit of the piece in an unusually cohesive spirited ensemble Askegard shows great promise MKMCM MUfT IHMflL Variations" choreographed by Frederick Ashton "Lbs Liaisons Dangereuses" by Christian Holder by HaraM Landar Tuesday nitft IAm IVimi in MflVuponan upon mousn season ov varied repertory ends Saturday Bnsnc DIRECTOR Kevin fill goal of empha-y I sizing the Theater in Ameri- can Ballet Theater was vin- MJ dicated in a big way Tuesday night with the company premiere of Christian liaisons Ex-Joffirey dancer ballet closely follows Choderloe de story popularized on the big screenafew years back and to report that the ballet is almost as gripping as the movie of the same name Set to various Mozart music minuet of seduction and deceit in the 18th Century had its premiere at the Pillow Dance Festival in 1991 by Martina van New Amsterdam Ballet Tuesday night van Hamel who returned to ABT when McKenzie became artistic director re-prised her role as La Marquise de Merteuil who persuades Valmont to seduce and destroy a young virgin CedleVolanges (Ashley Tuttle) Robert Hill was Valmont the role McKenzie originated while Marianna Tcherkassky took on the role of the devout Mme deTourveL The strongest actors and beat dancers were onstage The simple opulence of own designs featured a drapery that widened and narrowed to change the levels of Todd atmospheric lighting Th minry nnfnlHa through a nrimhi nation nf nld- faahirmati mime more understandable gesture Jr.