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Show i r J MM The Salt LakeJTr&uae, Sunda 12 , September Debbie Reynolds followers flock to Broadway to see if shes alive 19, 1976 Guys and Dolls success never surprises Burrows By Allan Wallach Newsday Writer When NFW YORK all the piuM-- s and minuses of the 1976-7- 7 Broadway season are added up, one of the big pluses are likely to belong to a wrigenial, sharp-witte- d ter, director and man of the theater named Abe Burrows. Burrows .already has quite a few points in his d plus column for the new production of Guys and Dolls that opened in July. He had written the show the first time around and supervised the new version, helping a brand new set of guys and dolls learn about such things as floating crap games and high-spmte- missions. save-a-so- And now he is helping to write the Hat's and cicuv nonsequiturs for a new Hellzapoppin Jerry Lewis, starring which hell direct for an opening in February. Past and Present Puffing on a occasional cigarette, Burrows spoke recently of Guys and Dolls past and present, observing that he wasnt surprised when the latest one became an instant hit. Ive never been surprised by Guys and Dolls, he said I worried a little. The first production was my first show back in 1950 I was very nervous Then the three horseplayers came out on stage and the trumpet blew first call, racetrack call, and the audience laughed this was in Philadelphia and I said to my wife, Were home, cause I knew theyd be with us. Stopped worrying This time out Burrows stopped worrying when the show was in Washington. He had no misgiv- - ings about doing the new production of the musical with a black company. For years, he noted, he and composer Frank Loesser and later, he and Loessers widow had resisted doing another production because they felt there wasnt any special reason for bringing the show back to Broadway. When Billy Wilson, the of choreographer Brown BubblingMoe and New York Times Service A ?pw days before her Prnduay opening Debbie Reynolds stopped traffic on West 45th Street. I hate heights, but theres nothing duller than another picture of Debbie Reynolds, she had said to the photographer, and up she dim bed to the top of the Mmskoff Theater marquee to pose, waving to the crowd below and wailuig cheerfully about the dirt on her precarious perch. Cab drivers screeched to a halt, policemen shook their heads and laughed helplessly and the fans loved it. Hold on Debbie! they cried. Go ahead and jump, Debbie. Ill catch you, a young man yelled. Good morning' Good morning! she called bark God, she hasnt changed m all the years Ive known her, Muriel Falvy, an admirer form Manhattan, said, beaming up at the tmy figure straddling the mai guee Shes a great girl. All the bad breaks shes had and shes made it to the top. TP w and he was my teacher, says Burrows, who remembers Kaufman even fixmg soft spots seven days after the shows premiere on Broadway. This time, it was Burrows who tinkered before the opening, adding new jokes and changing references that didnt work. Burrows, who describes himself as an amateur etymologist, takes mild exception refer to the when people Sugar, Septee, producer of that show, suggested a black "Guys and Dolls, theyd come up with a special reason. And, Burrows says, I got involved m it on the second day of rehearsal. I just felt that this was the company that always had done it. It was that kind of thing; it seemed to belong to them I loved working with them new production as a revival. I always say, revival means something is dead And Guys and Dolls was never dead; its a going concern all across the country and has been steadily. He compares what he feels is a condescending attitude toward new productions of old musicals and comedies to the respectful treatment ac- Fixing Soft Spots Burrows recalls how closely he worked with Loesser, director George S. Kaufman and others involved with the original production. I listened to George on everything, mances of an opera, a classic play or a symphony. When you hear YORK Teenager Years after she burst on the movie scene as a teenager from El Paso, portraying Helen Kane, the girl, m Three Little Words; after the perfect marriage to and subsequent divorce from Eddie Fisher and an unhappily ended marriage to Harry Karl, the businessman, Miss Burbank 1948 still had that first, fresh charm for the passers-b- assembled below. The mother of two grown children, she is an energetic supporter of the Girl Scout., and the Thalians, a charitable organisation that works with emotionally disturbed children, and the prune force behind an attempt to establish a Hollywood Hall of y Fame to preserve artifacts from the first of moviemaking She doesnt swear and she prefers happy movies with strong plot lines She would never utter the obscenity, on screen or off, that her daughter, Carrie Fisher, spoke m Shampoo But her wholesomeness is spiked with an agreeably dry, wit and a cool determination to get on with the business Well-Scrubb- well-scrubb- much-publiciz- y corded new perfor- half-centur- an orchestra playing Beethovens Ninth you dont say, Oh, my God, Ive heard that! Debbie Reynolds wholesomeness is spiked wit. with an agreeably dry, (Copyright) h Z, ' jS at hand, whether it be a reflexivdy attentive conversation with an unappealing n, yet another interview or the production ot The Debbie Reynolds for a Show, the $550,000 revue that she is presenting months run at the Mmskoff. New York Debut The world of vanety and vaudeville is not a new one to Miss Reynolds, although this marks her shows New York debut after appearances in Las Vegas and at Londons Palladium There will be singing and dancing, with an extravagant Bicentennial medley but no punctuated with flag and gun twirling fireworks, at the behest of the Fire Department. There will also be a tribute to Hollywood, with y e songs and tap dance and a Ziegfeld-Busband lots of p a set with stairway Berkeley chandeliers Joins Growing List Miss The Debbie Reynolds Show, With Reynolds joins a growing list of female entertainers who have presented variety acts Time and money are factors in the decision to do variety. I want to be with my children as much as possible before they leave home, the star of the 1973 hit revival of Irene explained. son came by to Todd Fisher, her discuss a brochure for a new mobile recording control room he had designed Killer, a mmiature blond poodle, played beside her chair Was it this reassuringly comfortable personage her audiences would be coming to see m The Debbie Reynolds Show? Was it the image of the game little trouper? Nostalgia They come to see if Im still alive, she said Some people feel theyve grown up with me or raised me Some want to see if its real. My audience, my loyal followers, my keepers come to see me for a fun evening I just want to entertain them I dont want to sing about the miseries of my own life, you see, and remind them of theirs and me of mine. 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A Bob Posse show with music bv Kanoer and Ebb and flashy performances bv Gwen Verdun, Chita Rivera and Jerry Orbach 46th Street Theater g Grease musical abnut youth and music in the 1940s Rovele Joe Swerling Guys and Doits 4 and Abe Burrows comedy based on s and with an ait hostlers gamble back cast headed by Robert Guillaume Broadway A lavish revival My Pair Lady r of tnt Lamer Loewe musical with distinguished performances by Ian Richardson as Henry H ggn$ end George Rose as Alfred Doolittle Newcomer Christine Andreas out ot her ciass as Eliza Doolittle St James Me and Bessie Linda Hopkins, an ample woman with a powerful gospel voice pays toyful tribute to Bessie Smith m a staged concert recounting the blues singer s , different kind ot musical raeav '' ' r ' MILL AUTHORIZED SALE! ,1 Add the excitement and color of Karastans Oriental patterned rugs to your decorating scheme and save money too, during the mill authorized sale of Karastan Oriental patterned rugs at Dinwoodeys. 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Henning Corf The Runner Stumbles The trial of a pnest accused of murdering a nun provides tle framework for a drama of spiritual conflict bv Milan ''Stitt who writes with a grim earnest ' ness With Stephen Joyce and Nancy Donohue- - Litfie Theater The Threepenny The Opera Brecht Weill musical about London tow lifters glows vwlth a cold, lurid revival by light in this hard-boilthe New York Shakespeare Festival at Lincoln Center, Raul Julia is Mack the Knife Ellen Greene is VUtar Beaumont vanity ' The Wiz A b'ack Uurothy scampers down the yellow brick road in an inane but spectacular musical adaptation of ' The Wizard of Oz " Stephanie Mills Is Dorothy Maiestic VWW V, |
