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MOUNTAINDALE PLAYHOUSE, Mountaindale, N.Y. Annie Get Your Gun, Aug. 10-13; Camelot, Aug. 17-20; The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Aug. 24-27; The Most Happy Fella, Aug. 31-Sept. 3.
SHADY GROVE MUSIC FAIR, Rockville, Md. John Raitt stars as the psychiatrist in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Aug. 8-13. Richard Chamberlain is the Hell's Kitchen Romeo of West Side Story, Aug. 15-20. Oklahoma! comes sweeping down the plains with Gordon MacRae, Sept. 5-10, followed by Carol Lawrence as Funny Girl, Sept. 19-Oct. 1.
MELODY TOP, Milwaukee, Wis. Jane Powell is the unflappable flapper of The Boy Friend until Aug. 13, after which On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, with Van Johnson, comes into view, Aug. 15-27; and finally John Raitt takes a spin with Carousel, Aug. 29-Sept. 10.
DALLAS THEATER CENTER, Dallas, Texas. The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter. There was a lighter side to life during the crash, the Depression and World War II, and Porter's urbane eye found it and used it for his cornucopia of worldly wise and witty songs. Aug. 17-Sept. 23.
MELODYLAND THEATER, Anaheim, Calif. Elaine Dunn in Sweet Charity, Aug. 8-20; Betsy Palmer will be washing that man out of her hair in South Pacific, Aug. 22-Sept. 3.
CIRCLE ARTS THEATER, San Diego, Calif. Janet Blair leads The Sound of Music until Aug. 13. Carnival, with Anna Maria Alberghetti, takes over Aug. 15-27; The Unsinkahle Molly Brown with Gisele MacKenzie holds the berth Aug. 29-Sept. 10.
MUSIC
Europe in summertime offers nearly as much music as sightseeing—and sometimes both combined. Among the festivals:
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL (Germany, to Aug. 24) is the tops among summer festivals—provided, of course, that Wagner is your idea of great music. After the death of Co-Director Wieland Wagner last year, Richard's other grandson, Wolfgang, assumed the artistic as well as his administrative responsibility. Many of Wieland's productions return to the stage, complete with their conductors (Karl Bohm, Pierre Boulez) and singers (Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen).
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL (Scotland, Aug. 20-Sept. 9) will sweeten the bonny air with Vincenzo Bellini's / Capuletti ed i Montecchi, his bel canto version of Romeo and Juliet. Other programs include two Stravinsky operas, Joan Sutherland in Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice, George Balanchine's
New York City Ballet, George Szell's Cleveland Orchestra, and the omnipresent Boulez conducting the BBC Orchestra.
SALZBURG FESTIVAL (Austria, to Aug. 30) offers Herbert von Karajan's versions of Carmen and Boris Godunov, along with a diversified collection of other artists and works: Zubin Mehta and George Szell conducting in the orchestral series, Christa Ludwig and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing lieder, and Pianists Wilhelm Backhaus and Sviatoslav Richter providing virtuoso fillips in the instrumental series.
DUBROVNIK FESTIVAL (Yugoslavia, to Aug. 25) has a variety of performers ranging from the Harvard Glee Club to Soviet Pianist Richter and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.