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MANILA — About half a miihon
anery Fihpinoa. KMne thoutmg
'Marroa n a fciSrr" and ochen burn
Mf tare* and throwing Monea.
through Man da Tueaday
of op-
Miss piggy breaks the news:
Muppets wed at long last
Fen
they arreted 27 youths Many wore
id toted fire cracks caflad to
the fires About 1.000 pobce
ddaen acataoned near the nal-
at their riot shaeida wnh club*
ire off 900 eoutha taunting
BEVERLY HILLS — Mna Piggy
and Kermat tW Frog, co-founders of
the Mupper Repertory Theatre, ea-
« mamaae vows on the stage
of their hat ^ ^dway musical.
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TW ceremony was also fiianad for
a argitient of their new feature film.
“The Muppets Take Manhattan ~
Sources dose 10 the pag and frog
■aid thr wcddang\po4 otacr after
years of pressure byyHebride. who
an snaee her
’"Th, wedding, which was t
by all thah kmannet
cept Stader and Waldorf (1
they wouldn't condone heatiabty by
attending) took the bridegroom by
aurprwe
TW ceremony, waned as the fi
nale of (heir Broadway musacai
“Manhattan Melodies.* was sup-
puaed to be port of tW fictional atory
about the Muppets taking their caL
lege musical to the New York wage.
Fnrnr Bear was cam m thr rale of
the minister whi
the 1
* ben the couple mg that rented to pigs and
a real clergyman, not a felt hand
puppet, had replaced Fozaae
The result. Mim Piggy told UM
during lunch at the famed Polo
Lounge, is thau she is now Mrs. Ker
mil Frog
"You are not." aasd hermit, who
also attended the lunch as pant of
their national promotional tour for
the film
"That’sjuat hermit s public stance
—*■ when he's taikmg to the seventh
ewate In private W^ completely Af
ferent." Mim Piggy-Mn Frog ma-
sured the reporter
“TW seventh estate 7 " hermit
asked.
"Yes. dear, that'a a journalistic ex
pression When you have as many
press agents as 1 do. you get to know
the hago, I mean, Ir langur As for
that lovely wedding, there was no
trickery involved None whanao-
vever Except for the aaanmer "
the newlywed*
lomc but that m
were took, m for a
was hard to find an
"And dogs, and chickens and
bears.” hermit added, hinting that
the entire Muppet men age rw would
be mtaung tW new household
Frank Os. who directed the new
Muppet movie and serves as Mm
Piggy i spokesman. Mopped the ac
tress from answering questions
about rumors that widespread drug
use among the Muppets had inflated
the picture's budget to $19 million
from as original price tag of fl.M
"I don't know how much it coat
I’m a movie star. It was somewhere
between thoae two figures." Miss
“ said
Jim Henson, executive producer
the film and her mu'» spokesman,
threatened to end the interview
when the frog was asked about re
ports that he was a "real animal" in
Media speculation has suggested
that the Orcmbns. faw nsmg stars of
the hit summer movie, might replace
the Muppets as America’! favorite
fell figurines
No injuries were reported in the
demonstrations, the largew in Ma
nila since Aquino’s funeral drew an
2 million mourner* last
closed and students
boycotted classes to attend I ursdav’s
march through Manila commem
orating Aquino FW demonwrator*
began at different lotatiom
throughout tW cny and converged
atonftVanila Bay
e vefc»w T-shirts — the
«»1 mourning — or
earned velow banners and balloons
and shouted "Marcos. Marcos w a
killer "
Firecrackers exploded on the
street, church bells rang and office
workers showered marcher* with
confetti from office budding*
Manila police chief Nartiso Ca
brera estimated close to 500.000
took part in the march and other ral
lies in Manila, with ocher demonstra
tion* in 17 provincial ( Mias Some
10,000 people rallied m (he central
d»y of Cebu and 4.000 in thr resort
town td Baguio, where Marcos has a
mountain retreat
Marco* m power since 1965. was
a latter for of Aquino, thr opposition
*rnai<ir gunned down at Manila air
port Aug 21.19HS while under mA-
tary escort as he irturited home
from three years of self-imposed
exile in the United States
. The government Mamed a com
mumsi hitman, who was himself
killed m a hail of military gunfire
moments after the Aquino shooting
A civihan panel imruigating the
Aquino killing is ex pet led m release
hs finding* soon
Live entertainment still alive
UMssdPw
WASHINGTON — Live enter
tainment is not only alive. « is play
ing to record houses in some areas of
the country despite the tight dollar
and the popularity of the home en
tertainment business
From Broadway m New York Cky
to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
and the Nal theater and Arena
Stage m Washington, audiences
have been the bew ever, and current
productions are selling out with reg
ularity
Ruing production costs and the
consequential increase in ticket
prices also faded to keep audiences
at home
"I think that cigarettes and booze
and tickets do great during a rrcea-
won.' said Richard Bryant, director
of public retatiom ’for Arena Stage
"People tell them selves. ‘I can have a
good night out I might not go to the
Bahamas, but I sure can bn the
town ' It’s an inexpensive way to
have a good time, but still quite ——
lying and exciting "
Bryant said Arena rawed ticket
prices about 10 percent, but re
corded its bew season in 33 years
with more than 307,000 adnmsion*.
about 7.000 Acer law year
Tickets at Arena sell for between
$10.75 to fit 75 to defray a $6 mil
lion annual operating budget
Bryant saw there is “an extraordi
nary growth ui interest in the per
forming arts in America."
Wayne Knickel, spokesman for
the National Theater in Washing
ton. said thr theater has been sold
out wince it reopened mi January af
ter an MK-ntomh renovation. The
NaUcmal. with tickets ranging from
$22 5d to $40, opened with block
buster*. "42nd Street" and “Cots '*
f hr past season on Broadway
frroughi in $227 million with 7.9 mil
lion adniixvioris. compared with a de
cade earlier when 5.7 million tickets
vielded $46 niiNtcm
In Boston, three productions are
sHling out — “42nd Sireet." “Brigh
ton Beac h Memoirs*' and “Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor
Ifreamcoat."
Darth said production coats are
escalating at a higher rate than ticket
pricr*. winch range fret ween $2 and
$35, so the Philharmonic relies heav
ily cm subsidies
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