Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 105

9 9 9'9 9-9 9'9'-9 9t9 4 i 4 4 1 999 9 WV 9 a i -r 9 MJ JWCwl 4 4 jy 76e SayvUle INSPIRING SYMBOL OF COMFORT AND HOPE ffeROTDDD CERTIFIED BY NEW YORK STATE MEDICARE 24 HOUR PROFESSIONAL NURSING CARE PHYSICAL THERAPY REHABILITATION SERVICES SUPERVISED DIETS Outdoor Patios Beady Barber Dental Services Planned Activity A Entertainmed Luxurious Dining Rooms in and Visit Our Fine Facility SUPERBLY SET BY THE GREAT SOUTH BAY 101 ELM STREET a SAYVILLE NEW YORK 11792 LT 9-3030 DRAPERY SALE Choow from awr BO beautiful aetf-Hned Antique Satins or color coordinated Sheen and Satin trimmed STAGE New in town By Allan Wallach is a shew that farewell to the old Broadway musical without ever hnnmwfng a new one The show which opened last night is the ft it new offering of the young Broadway season (the others were simply Off-Broadway transplants) it tries to be new in every way it The Broadway Theater has been totally reconstructed so that the audience watches not from the tnutithml orchestra or balcony but areas surrounding the circular playing area that are Him Ignetti as and tops" And after a nostalgic so-long to foe munfnol of the pest (subtitled Highway sets out on its own course Instead of big stars there are a number of very appealing young people instead of a book there is only a vestigial story instead of hmrfUsF theater music hard rode soft rock twangy country pop and gospeL The trouble with this is that Insfamd of resembling a traditional Broadway nwdail it merely resembles others that "mdo the departure mostly with traces of Christ Superstar" and City" Even the innovative seating arrangement is our old friend theater-in-foe-round with a bright new set of labels When all foe familiar trappings have been stripped away left Is pretty much a rode concert and since foe nude is by (fait MacDermot composer of and "Tw Gentlemen of Verona" there is soma good hard-driving music in Thule" He has written songs that manage to sound both fresh and edectit and they are belted out by some dynamite What I find unlikahls about Is not that it fails in its attempt to be different but that it is familiar in such a derivative way Tom OTHorgui who was brought in quite late as director after the show foundered during previews has put an imprint on it that makes it seem that he has begun repeating himself fairly early in his career There is foe kind of writhing groping movement reminiscent not only of and but also of his previous work at La Msiw Thera Is also a lot of performing in foe aides (yes even have aisles) and swinging from tzapezes that is fun but less effective each time we see 1L is in addition a Garden of Eden scene that recalls not early (THorgan but the Open Theater's Apart from MacDezmotTe music whafs good about is the cast As fos younger of two Dudes -an 11-year-old black boy named Ralph Carter is a marvel of performing energy singing and dancing not like a veteran but an origfoaL And two young singers Salome Bey and Delores Hall repeat the terrific Impression they had made In previous shows When it is not being a rod i concert tells a story that makes you glad they dispensed with most of the book credited along with foe lyrics to Gerome Ragnl also of fos team) Dude bom to two very square whites (Rae Alloa and William Redfield) is guided through life by a guardian angel named for no evident reason 33 (Allan Nicholla) and misguided by a devil-figure named Zero (Jamee Patrick Farrell HI) He becomes a teenager (Nat Morris) and suffers the familiar alieruthm-amdety syndrome until he gets the message that love is what really counts in this life sets out to celebrate both the natural life aid theater itself But for all foe enormous energy of everyone involved it generates surprisingly little electricity It tries so hard to bs this and manages only to resemble the fast II custom tenor them mu aura (often them with travene rod Included 3 PAIR WALL-TO-WALL (up It feet) 99 3322l We a Come4n and tea Long Itlendt largest display of Beautiful Custom Drapery 1 and Window Treatments INTERIORS LTD Formerfy Modal Decorators of Franklin Square FREE PARKING: Acroi the (tract behind Texaco station A complete eoorJineted Country French Setting 4212 MERRICK ROAD MASSAPEQUA (1 Mock Wwt of Hteksville Road) Tel: 791 3322 Monday Thursday A Friday 0 AM to 9 PM Tuesday Wednesday A Saturday 9 AM to 9 A JfCfday October 10 1971.