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° WAITING FOR GODOT BY SAMUEL BECKETT BAM THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC The look were Big on this season! Liberate your body with full easy tops sliding over voluminous skirts or narrowed trousers for an exciting new proportion! Layer.on a roomy vest or an uncon- structed blazer for polish in this new relaxed mood in dressing. Al the A&S nearest you. Abraham and Straus 1975s, 002,67 LEPERCQ SPACE SAM Thursday, May 25, 1978- Sunday, June 18,1978 The BAM Theatre Company with the cooperation of Goethe House, New York presents Samuel Beckett's Production of WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel Beckett with Michael Egan Milo O'Shea Austin Pendeleton Sam Waterston R.J. Murray,Jr. directed by Walter D. Asmus scenery supervised by costumes supervised by lighting supervised by Carole Lee Carroll Dona Granata Shirley Prendergast This production is based on Samuel Beckett's own direction of Waiting For Godot at the Schiller Theater in Berlin during its 1974-75 season. BAM Theatre Company Board of Directors: Arne Vennema, Chairman/ Harvey Lichtenstein, President/ Hart ney J. Arthur/ Frank Dunlop/ Rita Hillman/ Berenice Weiler SAM Theatre Company Productions are made possible in part through a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. The Brooklyn Academy of Music gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York. Brownstones THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM LIKE THAT ANYMORE Why? Because the painstaking With unique classic shapes and forms from craftsmanship involved in a Brownstone rooftops to stoop railings that speak out, structure is virtually a lost art today. But "I'm one of a kind." With spacious interiors not really lost. You can recapture it in the that offer endless possibilities for creating Brownstones of Brooklyn that exist today. your own particular "dream house." Interested? 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Reservations recommended 624-8852 There will be one fifteen-minute intermission. 178 Atlantic Ave Brook!), N.Y STANDBYS AND UNDERSTUDIES Standbys and understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance Understudy for Vladimir, Lucky -George McDaniel, for Estragon, Pozzo -Paul Perri. Beef Goulash I BAM's Sale Price Mailing List I vs If you're already on the BAM mailing list you know the value of receiving BAM's great Chicken Paprikash sale priced ticket offers. If you're not, why not fill out the blank below and hand it to culinary where I the nearest usher or mail it to SAM from you're home. Once you do, well send you ad- A perpetual controversy Is the fun. Because events, plus special opportunities to save up to 50% on our choosing sides halt vance notification of SAM our Szekely Goulash and Chicken top -priced seats. Paprika,. are prepared with old world loving care. So are the other delightful Name Hungarian specialties on our brimming menu We invite you to drop by for Address lunch or dinner before the show and pick your favorite. CI IY State Zip but here's my new address. I; I I' m already on your mailing list, Old Hungary Cocktails, Luncheon and Dinner daily. Return to, BAM Malting List 30 Lafayette Avenue Montague St. Elk lyn. Hts. 625-1609 Brooklyn. N.Y 11217 142 IIIIIIMMI Beckett directs G o d o t . M11111W7 by Walter D. Asmus (Translated by Ria Julian) BAR AND RESTAURANT Beckett is coming to Berlin to direct everybody, even if only taking part in- Open Daily Waiting for Godot. He is no stranger at the directly, is willing to help and clear them Schiller Theatre: after Endgame, Krapp's up. This atmosphere of constant, con- 11.30 am to 1:00 am Last Tape and Happy Days, this is his centrated alertness, and the pleasure in SUNDAY BRUNCH fourth visit as a director. He also took part following up processes, in which each in- in the rehearsals of Godot in 1965, and dividual might not always be directly in- Eggs Benedict, it was then that he met the actors Bollman, volved, is a further result of the iunauthor- Bloody Mary, 0.1 Wiger and Herm. Bollman and he had also itarian' working relationship. Coffee, $3.50 worked together on Endgame. The rehearsals are carried out in a Rehearsal conditions are ideal from rather conventional way: after a relatively 'HAPPY HOUR' 28 December to 8 March, mornings only, fast read-through of the script, the de- Monday thru Friday mostly on stage. Everybody taking part tailed work follows with increasing in- in the production brings enormous is 5 PM -7 PM sym- tensity. Content not being discussed, pathy and respect towards Beckett-to only necessary) situations are cleared All Drinks $1.00 (if such an extent that this will be inevitably, up, and with that explanations about the at the Bar Only though not obtrusively, reflected in the characters given. The great precision of working process. But he is not only re the work and the striving to keep the form Come to Minsky's for fine dining in spected as an authority, as a competent as tight as possible are fascinating in comfortable surroundings. interpreter of his own script; more than themselves. So the necessity to investi- that the working relationship with him gate the content of the play is being Now at two convenient locations: is characterized by caution, attention, pushed to the background for the time concessions and openness-criteria for at- being (which, of course, has also got some- 222 Seventh Ave. Park Slope titudes to set free like behavior in those thing to do with Beckett's well -known Brooklyn, N.Y. Tel. 499-2311 working with him. On this basis, every- aversion to 'explaining' his play). body tries to strengthen the 163 Remsen St. Brooklyn Heights tacit mutual Beckett subjects his own script trust, and to do their job with the highest Tel. 643-1444 constantly to critical control, in the most possible degree of understanding and ap- amazing and sympathetic way. He is also preciation towards Beckett. As the weeks open to suggestions any time, and he even go by, there is a strong and at the same asks for them. He aims for the best pos. time a very vivid and dynamic structure sible interpretation of his script. to the group, interchangable relationships Should uncertainty occur, ne 6 evolving. ready with a new suggestion the next day, Beckett's immaculate German is always precise and thought -through-even characterized by a typical idiomatic ex- if it does not always work immediately. actness which seems to influence the tone So it happens that before the second full of all taking part. The language gains gen- rehearsal, there is a two-page cut to be Our Maestro erally a slight over-emphasis, expressive discussed, because the scenic transfor-i of care and consciousness. As a result of mation remained unsatisfactory. The v. is in the this linguistic precision, most misunder- high degree of consciousness and self- standings are resolved from the beginning. control does not strike the actors as ma- The every-day colloquial tone ensures a king them performing animals-indeed, Kitchen strange, unauthoritarian accent, unusual they consciously accept it, intensify it, in the theatre. and build on it. ,Imax Should misunderstandings still a- rise, if only through chance mis-hearings, Wale t ss A maestro is a master of art. And at Cafe Patisserie the art is in the cook- The very famous restaurant in Brooklyn. ing. Each dish is virtuoso Perform. once. Enjoy our savory, homemade Before curtain at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. soups and salads,unusual sandwiches, French Quiches and our speciality - The season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is in full swing tempting array of palate pleasing crepes. 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