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Show Friday. December 13, m town. f ; gar hfadlmmg a lavish revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Tins Rice's musical "Joseph sod the ," Amazing Technicolor a blond Aastra-lia- n named Jason Donovan. ? "He's fee uneriy channing whom you can fantasize about, but he's never going to leap " on top of you," says the musical's of fir. director, Steven Pimlott, M . About Donovan, who came to tame on an Australian soap opera called "Neighbors," Alistair wrote in The Financial Times: "All that body! And all those teeth! He's simply the most healthily sweet, perpetually teenage and harmlessly pretty thing to happen to musicals since Cliff Richard ia 'Summer Holiday." Whatever his appeal, Donovan has galvanized the public, selling Palladium Tbea out the 2,286-seLondon's biggest musical ter, playhouse, since the show's June 12 opening. At that pace, the $2.6 million production, one of five Lloyd Webber shows now on the West End, should recoup in January. How is this possible, coming ! ' from a teen idol whom the Guardin iianMrTiraTrmriT iiiiii ml 'rf an newspaper once referred to in a headline as "Golden Jason: blond leading the bland"? Jason Donovan, Australian, stars in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The phenomenon of what it is and Tkn Rice's musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor to be a star can coincide with a Dreamccai" in London. great deal of talent," Pimlott protests. "His ability is not inconsiA series of pastiche routines, Musically, he warbles "Close Door" and "Any Dream derable." camin its comes life to Every "Joseph" Will Do." His version of the latter David EastNor, it has to be said, is his role py supporting roles Pharoah crooning er's Elvis-lik- e very taxing. Originally a spent several weeks this summer at the school concert in 1968, "Jothe and of top of the British charts. "Song Joseph's King" The star power of Jason Donobrothers adopting a Nashville seph" is now a furiously busy show twang for "One More, Angel in van is apt to mystify Americans and luxuriously padded mat achieves its two-hounfamiliar with "Neighbors," a Heaven." running time through a or so Donovan's function is to project saga of Australian suburban life curtain call and a company number a boyish earnestness and wear as which is one of the most popular called "Joseph Megamix" reprislittle as possible a loincloth programs on BBC television. The show propelled Donovan and his ing highlights from what we've and a body mike taped rather obtrusively to his head. sweetie, Kylie just seen. Dream-coat- V or Ma-caul- ey v.. ai n on-scre- en fslcills on Broadway' opens By MARY CAMPBELL about egg creams in about Queens, joked trying to stay young and dieting. The audience, their hair mainly gray, obviously did remember and identify. Lawrence ended the show. His after-scho- Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Comedian Jackie Mason was a success on . Broadway. So "Catskills on Broadway," an evening of stand-u- p comedy in a similar vein, is giving it a try at the Theater. It should live and be well. "Catskills on Broadway," which delivers two hours of laughs with no intermission, opened ' about gambling resort hotels, nothing about the Catskills, but he seemed to know all about it. Instead of one-lin- e jokes, his style is to paint verbal pictures and, with each sentence, paint them bigger, in a rich, deep voice. One of his funniest started, "In the Catskill hotels, the big activity is food." He named the waiters, did their accents, told their jokes, noted taking rolls upstairs "for later" and revved the description of sour cream' up till people were water skiing on it. Capri represented the Italian comedians who have joined Jewish comedians in the Catskills. His jokes are quicker. "I was once mugged in a library. I had to whisper for help." A soap opera tide is "All My Children Are Too Busy To Call Me. " His voice was a little harsh and his style a bit labored and brusque but audience laughter was strong. Thursday night. Its four perform- ers are comedians Freddie Roman, Mai Z. Lawrence and Dick Capri agd singer Marilyn Michaels, mainly doing impressions. Very little of the humor is sexual, some is bathroom. None is political, an area in which Jackie Mason excels. Freddie Roman, warm and lika-bj- e, comes out first and later introduces the others. He started as a teen-ag- e comic in resorts mainly frequented by Jewish families in the Catskill Mountains, has wiirked lately in hotels in Las Atlantic City and Florida. He told jokes about grandchildren visiting in Florida, got big Ve-gS- biography has much program Lunt-Fontan- ne s, laughs, and commented, "My V is the humor of life. You can identify with it." He reminisced hu-m- "Broadway Baby" sounding like Carol Channing. She went on with quick imitations of other female entertainers. She was much more successful moving her face, mouth and body like them than sounding like them. She did Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mae West, Elizabeth Taylor, Barr, Lily Tomlin, Eydie ol the Michaels began TEE EERALD, Provo, Utah, Page Dt Vienna opens theater museum LONDON (AP) London's West End theaters cow boast of Vanessa Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Robert Lindsay and Ton Cocti, but none is the hottest ticket in That honor goes to a soap opera mi Mioogoe, into pop star careers just as "The Partridge Family" .made David Casssdy a heartthrob iathe United Stales. In an interview backstage a! the Palladium, an eager Donovan voiced his own reason for the production's success. "Maybe it's because it gives people a bit of hope, you know?" he said in a distinct Antipodean accent unaltered by London residence. "The thing about Joseph is that we are in a recession, we are relatively depressed, and he brings you hope," Donovan reiterated. "'Phantom of the Opera doesn't; 'Aspects of Love doesn't. 'Joseph brings you out of the theater feeling In addition to its memorabilia of performers, original manuscripts and costumes, the museum's holdings include original designs and . sketches, posters and playbills, photos, films and tapes. The palace was built in the bs- roque style in the mid 1860s, and Beethoven's Third Symphony, the ; "Eroica," was first performed here; the symphony was dedicated to Prince Lobkowitz, one of his ' patrons and sponsors. " A permanent installation sur -veying Austria's theatrical history is housed on its ground floor, and temporary exhibition space, reading room, and a children's . section with exhibits, models and computers are included. VIENNA (AP) A theater museum with a collection of nearly IS rtullkn items has opened its doon in the Lofctowkz Palace. Among its treasures are costumes of tenor Leo Skzax and of dancer Fanny Elssler, and the original autograph manuscript of Moz- art's opera, "La Clemenza di Tito." The Austrian Theater Museum was founded in 1922, when several great collections were combined to form k. But up to now it has never had enough room to set up representative permanent displays. A lot -- of its material has been stowed away at the nearby National available only to brary : Li- op." For Donovan, the decision to star in "Joseph" was a canny move to diversify and thus prolong a pop-stcareer. He left "Neighbors" in 1989 Scott after four years as clean-car ut Robinson. 'Neighbors," launched in the United States earlier this year in New York and Los Stp By During States. Thr Angeles, was canceled before Donovan's character appeared. Prior to "Joseph," he was focusing on a concert and recording career w hich has made inroads virtually everywhere but the United "America's a funny sort of market," said Donovan, aware of the fact that the West End's biggest draw means zilch to American tourists. "I had a decision," he said. "Either I spend a lot of time in this country and don't break, or spend more time in England, Australia and Europe where I'm successful and hopefully that will carry across the Atlantic at some particular point." "Joseph" may prove the ticket. Contracted on the West End through next May, Donovan is scheduled to head a tour of Canada aad the West Coast of the United VJiU Sa A Drawing Each Dsf Far FREE LUNCHES, video mmms, aw 7 W QALLQPJS OF FREE OMB!U And Enter Our Drawing For A Stsp En FPEE fiQUEHTJUfy BIKE Sa&jrtJa? e& 5:33 P.M. States in autumn 1992. That company would continue on to Donovan's native Australia and possibly then to Broadway, where "Joseph" may encounter a somewhat rougher ride. "We're laying back on New York just for a little while," says Donovan, adding that the city's tough critical community "could go against the show. " IIHMIII IIII Mil III UN I I1II1M IWI 1 Om ConiM I ICoiSs iInuteman 1793 t&erth SSQ 1990 ll.lllfffll Till Pram 374-803- 4 iHkBMiM. If You're Going Out Ro-sean- Gormem Connie Francis, Lena Home, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Bette Midler, Shirley Bassey, and Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli For An !ialian Dinner, 5 Have An Italian Dinner; ' Worth Going Out For. dueting. She did sound like Barbra Streisand singing "Happy Days," Ethel Merman singing "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and a bit like Dinah Shore doing "Buttons and Bows" and Julie Andrews with "Wouldn't It Be Loverly." She got closer to the right "Wizard sounds in a of Oz," doing Dorothy, Toto, the wicked witch, the good witch, the Munchkins and the Cowardly Lion. Instead of the Tin Man or Scarecrow, she inserted Dr. Ruth. 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