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Show Monday, August Has Hollywood Its Own - HOLLYWOOD (NEA) Now that "A Chorus Line" and "The Wiz" and "Equus" are all playing in Los Angeles, the stage has become almost as important in Southern Californian life as the film. It used that to be nobody in Los Angeles cared about the theater. Not any more. Now they're talking as much about "A Chorus Line" as they do about "The Omen." But the Los Angeles a 8 us m i i.Ma-g--n-T-- ,. , FRIDAY, AL'G. 13, 1976 130 a.m. II -- Night Movie Washington Week in Review and Friends 8:30 The Itockford Files 7 Wall Street Week 1 Jennie 9:00 and Politics 9:30 Summer Commencement BYU Summer Commencement 7 3:39 4:00 45- -Gilligan's -ttnah Island Mster Rogers Neighborhood 7 inJ 4:31 professional dancing. He has been trying to write for a decade and now thinks of himself as a writer. In "A Chorus Line," Sammy Williams, as Paul, has a monologue in which he tells of his tragic early life, his first exposure to homosexuality, his experiences working in a transvestite club. That is the show Dante's own story tells many true stories of and he wrote that dancers 10:00 4- 5:10 Jfcgan's Heroes 4 Evening News - - - 5:30 10:40 - Andy Griffith 5 Cronkite News The Electric Company 5 Ironside 4 The Rookies 7 Captioned News 10:45 6:00 2 Newswatch 4 Action News 5 Eyewitness News 11:00 2 5- Concentration - Let Make a Deal 7 C'arroscolendas 7:00 For Better or Worse l)onny and Mane 5Jeremiah of Jacob's Neck 5- 2 5 5- - -- Newsroom - MacNeil 11:55 Theater 1:40 Final FRIDAY TV MOVIES The Boy With Green Hair, Robert Rvan 8 00 4 "Hard Contract." James Cobum Lee Remick 8 00 5 "Confessions of a Police Captain ," Martin Balsam 11 40 5 The Love God," Don Knotts. Anne Francis Death.' Lon I', 55 4 "Calling Dr ( hanev. 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U' Williams won a Tony for the way he delivers it. But Dante gets angry when people say that's all he wrote. He says, sure, he wrote that, but he wrote a lot of other 2 00 5 Perspective II particular Friday Movie - Nightmare 6.30 4 - Late But it should be a winner -ione memorable thev can figure out how to night. Dante remembers that do it.' night as being a tremendous experience, with all of them telling their stories. And that Pyramid was the inception of "A Chorus Line." Guests Announced Most of the 24 who were there are now in one company or another of the show, which Tony Randall and Jo Anne is now playing here and in will be the celebrity Worley comwith a third New York on Channel 4's popular players One pany forming for London. game show, "The $20,000 of the few exceptions is Pyramid," this week. Michon Peacock. Dante says Dick Clark is the host of the last he heard she was in "The (20,000 Pyramid " in which the two celebrity "Chicago" on Broadway. "A Chorus Line" has been players team up with two conbought by Universal for a testants in a race against the movie but it will be a long clock to communicate time before it is filmed. At the categories to their partners moment, it is scheduled for through item clues. In the round of the shooting in 1980. Dante would final like to be a part of that vengame, the high scoring team ture, maybe even dancing a becomes eligible to win up to small role. $20,000 in cash. "The $20,000 Pyramid" is a "I don't think," he says, "that 'A Chorus Line' can be Bob Stewart Production filmed as it is. There will have originating in New York. Anne to be one more plot and more Marie Schmitt i3 the producer dialogue. It's going to be and Mike Gargiulo is the director. tough." gathered "She said, and she's right," Dante says, "that dancers are always treated like cattle by most Broadway producers. So a bunch of us got together to talk about it, to see what we could do to help ourselves." There were 24 of them who V T.. a a atnt !' OtrOI. TRADE ALLOWANCE CN ANY OF THESE 25" D1AC0XAL RCA COLOR CONSOLE T.V.'S " I I ' MINIMUM TRASE ALLOWANCE 0H FIKE w ith 25" DIAC0XAL RCA XL-1- ANY Of THESE COLOR COXSOLESI SO IS TOCAT TU SEE OUR COLLECTION OF ANTIQUES. WE BUY, SELL OR TRADE. KtOMOf JUTtCA VAUJtS i . I Lqhtinq by 18 S State KOKt - Orem. Utah OurM ma abas 560 546 ' wini bronze finish. 1 Utah-T- Vl5 horus Line but has given up day Two Action News 5Eyewitness News to Shoulder 10:30 -2 The Tonight Show 4PGA Championship Brady Bunch Street The audience is still naive. On opening night of "A Chorus Line," they came to love it. They had read about its New York success, about all its awards and prizes and honors, so they started applauding and yelling "Bravo!" before the curtain even went up. "It was incredible," says of Nicholas Dante, the big hit. "We could have been awful, and they still would have cheered." as is Dante is an virtually everyone connected with the show. He still dances, still goes to dance class every THE HERALD, Provo, 9, 1976, N. FURNISHINGS Ut IM k |