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NORTH-SOUTH SHRINE ALL STAR GAME (ABC, 4-7 p.m.). From Miami's Orange Bowl.
Tuesday, December 27 CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.).
"Westmoreland on Viet Nam." Correspondents Charles Collingwood and Morley Safer interview U.S. General William C. Westmoreland at his headquarters in Saigon.
In coming weeks, check your educational TV stations for:
FLORENCE: DAYS OF DESTRUCTION. Richard Burton narrates and Franco Zeffirelli directs this special report on the flood damage to Italy's priceless art treasures.
N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Play of Daniel. A re-creation of the musical drama that was a Christmas favorite in 12th century TELEVISION
France. Filmed in the medieval setting of the Cloisters in upper Manhattan.
N.E.T. JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Head Start in Mississippi" tells of the war within the war on poverty, focusing on the rise and fall of the pilot Head Start group in Durant, Miss.
THEATER
On Broadway
I DO! I DO!, based on the 1951 play, The Fourposter, is a two-character, two-gun salute to the enduring joys and passing frustrations of 50 years of married life. While the musical is blessed in its stars, Mary Martin and Robert Preston, and in its director, Gower Champion, the book and score are blubber.
WALKING HAPPY is an amiable amble through a Dickensian landscape breezily propelled by moving sets, spirited choreography, and a beguiling zephyr named Norman Wisdom who, as a "my fair laddie," is a bootmaker lifted out of the lower classes by his shoestrings.
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Rosemary Harris and Ellis Rabb lead the suavely professional APA Repertory Company through Richard Sheridan's high-humored dissection of a gossipy group in 18th century London whose slashing tongues cut a wider path than their wits.
RIGHT YOU ARE. Is reality an illusion? Aren't a man's illusions most real to him? And doesn't each one appear a different being in the eyes of others? Right you are, Luigi Pirandello answered. If you think you are, he added. The APA again.
CABARET. The prevailing mood winds in the Berlin of 1930 were blowing toward Nazism and war—not exactly the bubbly stuff of which a heady musical is made. In its very success at recreating the decadence and vulgarity of the era, this adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin acts more as a depressant than a stimulant.
THE ROSE TATTOO. In his most verdant drama, Tennessee Williams molded his most earthy and full-blown heroine (Maureen Stapleton), a Sicilian widow in Louisiana, whose glory fades at the death of her husband, but is eventually brought back to bloom by another man (Harry Guardino).
THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. A radio heroine beloved by millions for her sweetness and generosity makes life a maelstrom for her intimates with her tyrannical temper and oppressive ways. Comedienne Beryl Reid makes British Playwright Frank Marcus' lesbian protagonist a most believable bully.
Off Broadway
AMERICA HURRAH, and bravo for Playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie for the inventive dramatic form and sharp philosophical content of his three-playlet investigation of life in mid-20th century U.S.A.