European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In the wings compiled by Anita Gosch theater Netherlands the Alliance players of he accent in Brun sum Netherlands present a dinner theater performance of spots a love and marriage oct. 5 Ana 6 at the officers club. The bar opens at 7 ., Showtime is at 7 30  Tickets Are 35 dutch guilders. Advance reservations Are required. Call accent ext. 3188 or civilian 045-261892. Germany Darmstadt performing arts Center on Ernst Ludwig Cavern presents the musical Oklahoma through oct. 6 and oct. 11 -13 at 7 30  Tickets Are $8 for adults and $6 for children under 12, available at the recreation Center on Cambrai Fritsch Cavern. Call ets 348-6226. Stuttgart entertainment presents the pulitzer prize winning drama the diary of Anne Frank oct. 5 and 6 at 8  And oct. 7 at 3  At the Stuttgart theater Center 5th general Hospital bad Cannstatt. Tickets Are $6 for adults $4 for students and children 5 to 18. Children under 5 Are not admitted. Reservations can be made at All local recreation centers at the Patch is and at the entertainment Branch office building 112, room 318, Robinson Barracks. Stuttgart also presents the heartwarming comedy driving miss Daisy As a dinner theater performance nov. 9-11 and 16-18 at the Nellinger Barracks officers senior no club. At performances on fridays and saturdays cocktails begin at 6 ., dinner at 7  And Showtime is at 8  Sunday performances Are matinees with lunch at 1  And Showtime at 2  Call ets 420-6748 or civilian 0711-819-6148. Schweinfurt entertainment presents you re a Good Man Charlie Brown oct. 5-6,71-13 and 19-20 at 8  Sunday matinees Are oct. 7 and 21 at 2  Call ets 354-6460 or civilian 09721-96460. Hanau s five pfennig playhouse on old Argonne Cavern presents Beth Henley s comedy crimes of the heart oct. 5-6 and12-13 at 8  Tickets Are $5. Call ets 322-8031 or civilian 06181-88-8031. Wiesbaden s Lindsey Little theater presents Dracula As a dinner theater performance oct. 5 and 6 in the Lindsey As recreation Center ballroom. Dinner is at 7 ., Showtime is at 8  Regular performances Are oct 12 and 13 at 8  In the ballroom. Call ets 3393492. Baum older playhouse presents arsenic amp old lace oct. 5-7 and 12-14. Shows on fridays and saturdays Are at 8 ., sundays at 3  Tickets Are $4 for adults and $2 for students. Call ets 485-6420 after 6  Wil Flecken entertainment and eleventh hour productions present the halloween production of the musical spoof Dracula the musical oct. 11 -13 at 8  At the Wil Flecken Community Center lounge in building 31. Tickets Are $8 in Advance and $10 at the door. Season tickets Are now on Sale. Call ets 326-3607 or civilian 09745-353-607. Kaiserslautern entertainment presents Alan a Cobourn s comedy How the other half loves. Wine and cheese performances Are oct. 11,19 and 27 at 7 15  Tickets Are $10. Dinner theater performances Are oct. 12,13, 20 and 26 at 7  Tickets Are $15. Regular shows Are oct. 14 and 21 at 7 ., oct. 18 and 25 at 8 ., and oct. 28 at 2  Tickets Are $7. Performances Are at the performing arts Center Mannheimer Strasse b-37across from Danner Cavern. Call ets 483. 8139/7543 or civilian 0631-411-8139/7543 weekdays noon to 6  Theater works of Ramstein presents Hugh Whitemore s spy thriller pack of lies. Fruit and cheese performances Are oct. 12 at the Haus Des Birgers oct. 18 at Vogel Weh recreation Center oct. 19 at Sembach a recreation Center and oct. 27 at Hahn a recreation Center. Dinner performances Are oct. 13 at the Haus Des burgers and oct. 20 at the Ramstein a officers club. Call ets 480-6600 or civilian 06371-47-6600. Niernberg s stage 13 presents the musical pippin oct. 18-20 and 25-27 and nov. 1-3 at 8  And oct. 21 at4  Tickets Are $8 for adults $6 for students and free to season ticket holders. Season tickets Are on Sale now general ticket sales Start oct. 15. Call ets 460-6609 or civilian 0911-719397. Giessen s Keller theater presents Peter Shaffer s Tony award winning drama Equi oct. 19-20 and 25-27 and nov. 1-3 at 7 30  A performance of the comedy love a a psychological perversity featuring the confederacy of fools is scheduled for oct. 21 at 7 30  Tickets Are $5 for adults $4 for students and $3 for children 6 to 12. Children under 6 Are not admitted. The Keller theater is in Miller Hall Grunberger Strasse 143. Call ets 343-6515 or civilian 0641-402-6515. Heidelberg s Roadside theater presents Tennessee Williams drama cat on a hot tin roof oct. 25-27 and nov. 1-3 at 8  Tickets Are $7 for adults $6 for seniors and full time students available in Advance at the . At the Heidelberg shopping Center. Roadside theater is on Stem Cavern off autobahn 656, Between Heidelberg and Mannheim. Call ets 370-6543 or civilian 06221 -576543. Augsburg Community theater presents Peter Shaffer s modern classic amadeus oct. 25-27 and nov. 1 -3. The bar opens at 7 ., Showtime is at 8  Tickets Are $6. The theater is in building 33, Reese Cavern. Call ets 434 448 7547. Bamberg entertainment Center presents the thrilling halloween melodrama Sweeny Toad the Demon Barber of Fleet Street oct. 25-27 and nov. 1-3 at7 3o  Tickets Are $5 for adults and $3 for students. Due to the Content the play is not recommended for Verv Cumo children. Call ets 469-8647. A auditions Germany Bamberg entertainment Center has auditions for the musical Oliver oct. 11 and 12 at 6  And oct. 13 at noon. The musical requires a Large cast of adults and children As Well As musicians. Backstage help in lighting sound and make up Are also needed. Call ets 469-8647. Wil Flecken entertainment and eleventh hour productions have auditions for the lion in Winter oct. 16-18 at 7  In the Wil Flecken Community Center lounge in building 31. Five men two women a technical Crew and stagehands Are needed. Call ets 326-3607 or civilian 09745-353-607. Variety Germany Wil Flecken entertainment and eleventh hour productions hold an Oscar presentation ceremony Low moan spectacular awards nov. 3 at 8  In the Wil Flecken Community Center lounge in building 31. Tickets Are $5 in Advance and $7 at the door. Call ets 326-3607 or civilian 09745-353-607. Music Germany Frankfurt s German american Community choir presents a concert oct. 21 at 7  At the Frankfurt Central Chapel Lubecker Strasse 38 Abrams Complex. The choir will be accompanied by a chamber group from Frankfurt and a soloist. Featured works Are John Rutter s requiem Manuel de Falla s Spanish song Cycle and Kurt Weill s Kiddush. Tickets Are $8, available at the Frankfurt Uso or at the door. Call ets 325-5513/7293 or civilian 069-5978348. Ail military communities and English language Heaters in Europe May submit information on their theater and music activities for publication in this column in the first stripes Magazine of each month.  must be received by oct. 24. Items must include the performance dates and times location of the performance site Cost of tickets and phone numbers to Call for reservations and or More information items that do not include this a formation can be run on a space available basis Only. Please Send the information to stars and stripes entertainment Apo 09211, or to the me National address stars and stripes entertainment Postrach 11 1437,6100 Darmstadt 11, West Germany. English National opera highlights 20th Century by Robert Musel United press International times being what they Are the English National opera can no longer claim that it is the Only major opera House in the West whose moderate prices tempt passing Trade a boast it relinquishes with reluctance. Anyone strolling by the coliseum theatre in London these Days would still be impressed by its innovative and imaginative repertoire for 1990-91, but it now takes More than Spur of the moment impulse to inhabit the better seats at $70. One of the lessons Learned thus far As the Eno progresses through a season of operas written in this Century a from Puccini s Tosca 1900 to Stephen Oliver s Timon of Athens world premiere May 1991 a is that the jeans and to shirt brigade May have had to move to the balconies but there Are adequate replacements for the right attractions. A recent week saw the debut of the third of the 22 operas on the schedule Alban Berg s Wozzeck of 1925, which introduced atonality. Donald Maxwell As Wozzeck the oppressed and exploited Soldier who murders his unfaithful mistress and Kristine Ciesinski As his Marie brilliantly played out the tragedy every nuance of which is signalled underlined and epitaph de by Berg s mighty orchestration. Quot this is the greatest opera written in our Century Quot said producer David Pountney. The cast did its Best to give truth to this opinion but the rigidly structured score stretched to the limits even Ciesinski. The tall handsome american is a favorite Here 10 stripes Magazine october 4, 1990 presence but for her habit of expressing forthright opinions in a operatic language. Quot some directors Are Yoyos Quot she once remarked. Quot i m an expert at controlling myself from killing  and they like her for the Lack of fuss with which she twice stepped in at Short notice to save european operas when the stars were out of action. The Eno season of nine new productions and 13 revivals a including three Mozart operas to Mark the Bicentennial of his death a opened with Tosca in August. It closes 213 performances later in june with Dmitri Shostakovich s lady Macbeth of it Send. Peter Jonas general director of the Eno describes this As Quot a publisher s dream and an accountant s Nightmare As far As Royalty payments Are  Quot we Hope the season in its selection and presentation is reflecting the turbulence of the Century we live in and the changes in society and its boundaries that have taken place and Are still taking place. Some of the pieces were conceived during and directly performed after world. War i or ii and some have added and unforeseen relevance to what is happening today Quot Jonas said. Quot All this costs Money and  we made a deficit larger than forecast because of continued High inflation after three years of profit. But the commitment to the work of this Century and of today will not end with june 1991.&Quot Jonas has Given opera goers a remarkable mixture of the milestones of the Century a some classics some old standbys some innovations some novelties plus a reminder from Mozart that modern composers still have mighty mountains to climb. His vision he said gave him courage to Quot lie Down in the Road against the forces of Cost Quot to ensure the British premiere sept 27 of Mark Anthony Turnage s greek which follows Wozzeck. Written in 1988, greek is set in the modern East end of London a seedy area Well known to Turnage whose score has echoes of Charlie Mingus Black music Ravel Puccini Hans Werner Henze and Benjamin Britten. The libretto by actor playwright Stephen Berkoff is a simple tragedy of East end Folk a two men fight for the love of a woman in a shabby cafe. The Victor discovers the Man he killed is his father. And the woman they were fighting Over is his Mother. The considerable Cost of Wozzeck was supplied by an Anonymous donor but although Jonas regrets he could not assemble enough sponsorship to include for example Strauss s Rose Kavalier critics consider he has managed an enormous Range of theatrical styles. There Are two double Bills Frederick Delius s Little known rustic tragedy Fennimore and Gerda teamed with Puccini s comedy of avarice Giann Schicchi. And Bela Bartok s gloomy study of Solitude Duke bluebeard s Castle with Igor Stravinsky s oedipus Rex. There is a new production of Debussy s Only opera pellets and Melisande Prokofiev s colourful and eccentric love of three oranges Dvorak s melodious rus Salka Aribert Reimann s highly praised Lear Britten s the turn of the screw Janacek s the cunning Little Vixen and Feruccio Busoni s doctor Faust which Lay unfinished for 50 years until a musicologist found some missing sketches in a West Berlin Library in 1977