lodged against him but because there were those in power who envied, Curtains Going Up at frothy Graustarkian operettas and feared and hated him seems equalJy lilting bodyless musicals, This is sturdy historically accurate. stuff, an exploration of the unquench­ Director Gordon Davidson 1H:1ieves able spirit of man in the daTk days of 'The Devils- is a deeply Christian play, the Spanish Inquisition. D a I e Was­ dealing with the temptation, the fall the Taper and Ahmanson serman wrought his drama from tbe , and the redemption of man. Certainly it Ufe of the great Miguel de Cervantes y is one of the most powerful and Saavedra as revealed in his Immortal important plays in contemporary dra· BY CECil SMITH -Don Quixote.· rna. has staged the musical The <:ast includes some of the finest drama as if the audience were the professionals in the current theater~ derelicts,.ln a hellhole of a. Spanish • ,nt:tl Ol·gan \'aguety and uncertainty presented this arternoon in the Pavi­ notably Frank Langella as Father prison into which the aging Cervantes Grandier and Joyce Ebert as Sister :10 y<'ar;;; aso with the notion that Los lion. 1'11c Melrollolitan Opt'I'" r\ationlll J. tossed. It is a cUl'tainless drama, Angeil'." liholiid justify Hs position ns a Company will opcon two weeks DC Jeanne of the Angels, his accuser. played, without intermission, during Among the others are Robert Casper, mcll'opolili.lTI ccntcl' with some sort or repertory in the Pa.... ilion MumIny nleht which, to save his neck from the'ragtag with the perCormnnce "Lil 'l'ruvi­ Iggie WolCington, William Hickey. <'ide auditorium for the performing or brJg:mds. cutthroats and bawds sur~ m't::: this w~k becomes a reality far ata.· !:;ubscquent pJ'oductions in the Mark Lennard, Sid Conr.ld, Anthony rounding him, he enchants them with Zerbe, Ian Wolfe, Jonathan Ktdd, Ed iJl'nmli the dreams of those c:I rly repel'tory Intlude ~ThC:' l\laniage of the tale of the eternal quest of Quixote. 1i'is.;aro," "ThL' napc of Lu<:n'(ia" and Flanders, Laurie Mock and Nancy ]lr~;pr1l1Cnl S with the completion ohdotl,<=, Wlwt is not cl"dotl~ and Wll.lt of Frederick'; Friedrich Durrcnmatt's Becketis trinity of thcnten: th(~ 7:',0- Aldonza, and Ray Middleton, the scat oval , and tile may be e\'en mOl'c ' tilt reaching In 6ardonic comedy, -The Marriage oC Mr. ('fkct is the !'ignifi("Hl('C to the Amcr. Innkeeper. Harvey Lembeck is the Mississippi, - and a new play by 2,l00-s.t'ilt Ahmnnson, linked hy Ol San<:ho Panza of this production, whi<:h l'Olonmu.lc that not only j oin ~ theIR il-.1It theater, William Murray commissioned by the Marre is restaging specifically for the CTG. ·Witnesses." slrUt'lul·'I1!~· but symbolizes theil' unity For ::00 ~'l',\1'~, the lhC'alcr in this spacious Ahmanson, ' of p-llrpose, , r:ountry h ~ls been thc errnnt stepchild -- win be in the The new theaters will be opened with of the