8-E THE PLAIN DEALER, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1994 ENTERTAINMENT 'Carousel' starts casting debate whirling Nontraditional choices fill some roles NEW YORK TIMES The opening of "Carousel" with actors of color in 13 out of 44 roles (including two major ones), has reopened the nontraditional casting debate with regard to Broadway. Most of the reviews chose not to mention the fact, a sign that acceptance is nigh, at least among critics, for performers who are cast against conventional expectations of sex or ethnicity. There were, however, some exceptions: "'Carousel' has been made so politically correct with interracial casting it becomes both jarring and a nuisance," Robert Osborne wrote in the Hollywood Reporter. And John Simon echoed him in New York magazine: "This directorial choice (which also makes one of the heavenly messengers a woman) in some ways militates against the meaning of the work." Osborne, toeing a traditional Theater critic Marianne Evett reports from Broadway in Sunday's Arts section. critical line, said simply that it was "ludicrous" that blacks would coexist happily with whites in the time.
and place (coastal Maine in the late 19th century) and that it was too much to ask the audience to accept it. William A. Henry 3d, writing in Time magazine, offered one response to this: "The raceblind casting," he wrote, in a largely negative review of the show, "if historically inaccurate, does not jar because this is clearly a fable." The director of the show, Nicholas Hytner, offered another, more pungent rebuttal. "This is so quintessentially an American show that it would have been odd to have excluded a large part of America from it," he said. "What I would have to justify is racially exclusive Entertainment, Films Live Performance Directory ADULT MOVIES Open 24 Hrs.
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Audra Ann McDonald, left, Michael Hayden and Sally Murphy in "Carousel." Beverly Sills singing fund-raising notes By MARY CAMPBELL ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Beverly Sills, famous and beloved as a coloratura soprano opera star and later the ebullient director of the New York City Opera, is optimistic about the state of the arts as she takes over her new job in June as chairman of the board of Lincoln Center. But Sills says social problems are making it harder to raise funds. Asked if the arts are healthy, she says, "In terms of talent, yes. In terms of public, yes. There'a a very healthy interest in the arts.
But social problems are at a point they never have been, certainly in my lifetime. "Nobody has to be told how competitive fund-raising is today. In my heyday of fund-raising at City Opera, nobody talked about AIDS, crack babies, drug abuse, teen-age pregnancies, homelessness. Now it is necessary to convince donors the arts are not a Fund-raising will be more challenging in that respect. "And there will be other facets of the job that will be equally timeconsuming.
I'm glad it's not a paid job. I'm going to be 65 in May. I'm too old now to be paid to do something I love to do. It is much better that I stay independent. You can death do them part.
Or until she finds the money. PATRICIA ARQUETTE HOLY MATRIMONY JP I Poly Gram PG 13 30 A PAL I PI NOW SHOWING 226262H GENERAL CINEMA NO PASSES RIDGE PARK SO. GREAT LAKES MALL Rides Road -749-4344 Great Lakes GENFRAL CINEMA SEVERANCE WESTWOOD TOWN CTR. 1 Tortor 21-1244 Ct Mel say exactly as you feel without any problem. I like that a lot." In six buildings, Lincoln Center has 11 constituents, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center and Lincoln Center Theater.
Lincoln Center doesn't interfere with the artistic policies of each of the constituents. It does raise money on behalf of all of them. Lincoln Center also presents some programs on its own, when constituents aren't using their buildings and outdoors in its large plaza in the summer. Sills, the center's first female chairman, says she took the job because it intrigued her. "Years ago, when my singing was going kind of nuts, I was being asked to go here and there," she says.
"I got so weary, Peter (her husband, Peter Greenough) bought me a little disc ring. On the top it said, 'I did that meaning it is not necessary to keep doing the same thing someplace else to prove you can still do it." When the Lincoln Center chairmanship was offered, Sills conferred with her husband. "He said perhaps it came at a good time in my life. He thought my life was full of a lot of unfocused work. He preferred I did one or two things and finished them successfully as opposed to running around in so many disparate directions." She currently is on four corporate boards, three arts boards THE GREAT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL SPECTACULAR 60 FABULOUS YEARS STARRING I HI With Special Guest Star SUSAN ANTON TONIGHT! 7:30 PALACE THEATRE 227175H NOW THRU SUNDAY Tickets available at the Playhouse Square Box Office.
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SUN. WED 7 AM Advertise in The Plain Dealer 0. BEVERLY SILLS: "Nobody has to be told how competitive fundraising is today. Now it is necessary to convince donors the arts are not a frill. Fundraising will be more challenging in that respect." and is chairman of the March of Dimes' Mothers March on Birth Defects.
"The job has no terrors for me," she says. "I don't think there's a nook or cranny of Lincoln Center I don't know. And I have dealt with Lincoln Center on the constituent side. You have somebody who comes in with sympathy for both sides." The constituents, Sills says, all are grateful to have exposure on TV and have Lincoln Center pay for it. The center has increasingly become a producer of arts programming.
It started the Mostly Mozart Festival in August 1966 in Avery Fisher Hall, when the New York Philharmonic was on vacation. "This year," Sills says, "from about May into September, not one constituent will be performing in its house. The Beaumont Theater, if they have a smash hit, they carry it through the summer. I know the New York State Theater has to hustle up people to rent the theater. Otherwise, the ballet and opera have to share the costs of the house.
Costs go on. You can't lock up and walk away from it." For the 200th anniversary of Mozart's 1791 death, all his music.was performed during 18 months at Lincoln Center, plus exhibits 'and lectures, with every constituent taking part. "There's no reason we can't do more things like that," Sills says. "And there's summertime; ball: room dancing on the plaza to a band. Can you imagine, in this city? You read headlines of all the ugliness and horror: People are ballroom dancing out on the plaza.
I think we can have more things like that. "Ballroom dancing works. Why not square dancing? Why dances the kids do today? Why not encourage them to come? It's fine to dress your kid up, put her in a bus to watch a rehearsal at Lincoln Center and go home. In the kid's mind it's a special event. I think coming to Lincoln Center should not be a special event.
It should be, 'Let's take the subway down to Lincoln Center and see what's happening "We have to have more programs for kids." There's no question but that her new job will plunge Sills back into raising funds, where she spent. much of her time in the 10 years running the New York City Opera, beginning in 1980. Sometimes it's fun, Sills says. "If it is a creative project, I usually get excited about it. I love to talk about, it and steer the person's imagination to come along for the ride.
I'm. relentless until I see a spark of ex-. citement. It's not fun if it's something I don't care about very much. But it's hard to make me do anything I don't want to do.
"I'm not frightened of fund-raising. I'm not asking for the money for myself. It is for something I be- 4 lieve in. If I can't convince the person, it's OK." 1 Japan firm backing Tchaikovsky contest ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW A Japanese company is contributing $600,000 to help fund the first international Tchaikovsky competition since the fall of the Soviet Union. HIGH GRANT ANDIE MAGDOWELL Weddings funeral' 30 Poly Gram GRAMERCY 224280H NOW SHOWING CLEVELAND CEDAR LEE NEMAS EXCLUSIVELY 2163 Lue Rd 321-8232 The piano, violin and voice competition will be held in Moscow in June, and Pioneer Electronic's contribution will cover of costs, the ITAR-Tass news agency; reported.
The competition began in 1957 and was last held in 1990 when Soviet authorities turned to Pioneer as the first foreign sponsor. The company subsidized prizes, musicians' hotels and transportation. Pioneer wants to help "in Russia's difficult times," company official Yoshihiko Akino told ITARTass. He added that Pioneer is wary. about publicizing its role because of accusations by some Russians four years ago that it influenced the awarding of the first prize in the violin competition to a Japanese musician.
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