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T m * ---------phoenix%u2014Sab Shimono: Cobble Hill'sAcfor-Brownstoner Talks ofGetting Parts & PlumbersBY DAVI NAPOLEONThis March. Cobble Hill actor Sab Shimono will be in three places at once. On television%u2019s CBS Daytime 90, he will appear in the leading role of RUN VALERY RUN, a drama about a relationship between an Oriental man and a Caucasian woman. On stage, he will create the character of Oh%u2019onga, a central role in the Stage 7 Matrix production of a Korean mask-dance comedy, \Yangban.\busy rehearsing his. parts, he will be searching tor hidden treasure%u2014 a bit of parquet under the linoleum, perhaps, or some fine wood under three layers of paint%u2014as he continues to renovate the South Brooklyn brownstone he bought five years ago.Shimono, who was educated at The University of California in Berkely, came to New York to study acting (mostly with Stella Adler) and to try to establish himself on the stage. His first major break came when he was cast in the role of I to in the original Broadway production of %u201c Marne%u201d with Angela Lansbury. Since, he has appeared in many plays, numerous television shows and com m ercials, and his movie career includes featured roles in %u201c Hospital%u201d and %u201c Loving%u201d .The theatrical work he is engaged in currently is as rewarding as anything he has done in the past, he says. Ch'on-ga, his stage character, is a rich man oflow birth who is sold a position of power, a yangbanship, that is connected to high birth and therefore not transferable. %u201c Buying a yangbanship,%u201d says the play%u2019s director Julian Olf, %u201c is like buying the Brooklyn Bridge. Jmpossibele.%u201d Shimono finds this gullible character complicated and unpredicable, and therefore a challenge to develop.T .V .%u2019s %u201c Run Valery Run%u201d provides him with another challenge because, he notes, %u201c this may be the first time an Oriental man has been involved with a Caucasion woman on television. Generally, the sexes are reversed.%u201dOf the three media he has worked in, Shimono laments that the stage is the most conservative in its casting policies. %u201c Most of the time, American actors are chosen to play Oriental characters, and Oriental perform ers are discrim inated against.%u201d On television and in the movies the situation is much different. Generally, however, Shimono has not himself had a hard time being cast in any medium. %u201c Getting a part,%u201d says the actor-brownstoner with a grin, %u201c is never as hard as getting a plumber with a grin, %u201c is never as hard as getting a plumber when you need one.%u201dBecause his work does take him out of town a great deal, he does have more problems to contend with than the average home owner. Last year he spent twenty weeks onPaintings91 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn GN.LGRY91I BRGDKLVM COLLGGG SCHOOL OF PGRFORMING dRTS DGPhRTMGNT OF THGWRG. PPGOTC: l f f O %u00ae O D %u00a3 T ^ | ^ %u00a3 .% '\* i*GAl A OPENING NIGHT IHUHSOAY MARCH 7 C/j,DIRGCTCD BYTICKETS: $3.50 KCITH ALDRICHWITH SKIPP07 JO DWIDSON HS JdCOBM4RCH 7 THROUGH 12,1974 8 PM.THURSDAY THROUGH TUGSDPY GGRSHWIN THGttfRGTickets: $2.25 Student Rate $1.50 (except Sat.) BOX OFFICE: 859-1180the road and, he estimates, he has lived in his home a total of no more than four of the five years he has owmed it.But if he complains about it, Shimono also considers brownstoning one of his greatest sources of satisfaction. %u201c There are long stretches of unemployment in any actor%u2019s career, and working on a renovation is good therapy.%u201d Not only does this work provide him a constructive use of his time and energy, but he finds that it serves as a good outlet for anger when things are not going well. %u201c Whenever I%u2019m angry, I expose a brick wall. I don%u2019t know what I%u2019ll do when I run out of walls and there%u2019s nothing left to pound on.%u201dWhen Sab Shimono is notSab Shimono with actress Lynette Chun, rehearsing a scenefrom the Stage 7 Matrix production of %u2018%u2018The Tale of Yangban.%u201d(Photo by William M. Shoucair)rehearsing a role for stage or screen, and when he isn%u2019t exposing parquet or pounding on walls, helikes to relax in his garden. %u201c That,%u201d he states unhesitatingly, %u201c is my favorite place of all.%u201dOdd Couple' EmergesIn Chelsea's ' Total EelipseBY CORRINE COLEMANThe two year liaison between French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine began in high with the 17-year-old Rimbaud%u2019s arrival at the Parisian quarters of the older Verlaine during September 1871. The iconoclastic guest from Charleville %u2014 near Belgium %u2014 who was already steeped in the works of Baudelaire, quickened the dormant sensitivity of Verlaine who was already married and ensconced in the upper bourgeois surroundings of his in-laws. The fateful meeting prom ised an awakening for both poets %u2014 for Rimbaud who was at last in Paris %u2014 at the center of the world; for Verlaine who would now be able to move out of the domestic scene. Together they would dispense with the lies of polite society, touch the heights and depths of the Parisian world %u2014 and write poetry.Alas, however, the two-year connection wound up in a %u201c Total Eclipse%u201d for both participants, alapse into decline for the two poets. Playwright Christopher Hampton has covered the two years in the life of the two poets, and added an afterthought taking place 17 years later in his %u201c Total Eclipse%u201d , the current presentation at the Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.The play begins as a mood piece %u2014 bitter-sweet Victorian Paris %u2014 with the indolent Verlaine encountering the spewing rebellious Rimbaud. It promises to be a cozy tale, filled with that nostalgic quality%u2014%u201c la Vie Boheme%u201d backed by the stability of polite society. And the first act indeed wallows in that nostalgic theme, moving from the home of M. Maute de Fleurville (Verlaine%u2019s father-in-law) to an artist%u2019s studio %u2014 to the cafes of Paris. Decadent artist%u2019s hi-jinx fills the various scenes %u2014 Rimbaud cops his host%u2019s crucifix %u2014 insults other artists %u2014 drinks %u2014 takes opium %u2014 seduces the ready Verlaine.Everything changes during Act 2It%u2019s a gas.If the gas shortage has been keeping you from a nite on the town, why not try %u201c Cabaret at Michel%u2019s,%u201d Park Slope's newest entertainment room, easily arrived at by bus. train, cab, or your own two feet.Norman Fields has been performing for the past two whirlwind weekends and Michel%u2019s couldn't be happier. If outrageous sight gags and clever, sophisticated (and. sometimes, very naughty) repartee are your forte, along with show stopping tunes (with Bryan Torff on bass) hurry on down.But please! Help us over our initial shock by calling ahead for reservations. NE 8-4552. No cover, no minimum. Attire: Vogue to Simplicity. Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights, 9 to 1. At Micnei s, J40 Fiatbusn Avenue, near 6iii Ave. Park Slope.at Michel%u2019showever. The two poets have gone to Brussells, then to London and back to Brussels again. From July 1872 through July 1873, much of their time is spent together %u2014 though Verlaine now and then is tempted to return to his wife. The act becomes a series of beds (a great brass bed is prominent) and though we are treated to scenes of the naked poets cavorting, tumbling, on the beds, under the beds, we hardly get a sense of %u201c a search for universal experience.%u201d Rather, we are offered a picture of %u201c the odd couple%u201d without clothes %u2014 who spend most of the time nagging, haranguing, whining, in language less than poetic. As a matter of fact, the act comes down to old movie cliches %u2014 %u201c Sunday Bloody .Sunday%u201d comes to mind during the scene with Verlaine%u2019s wife. And imagine! Verlaine, in despair over the petulant sadism of Rimbaud says, %u201c You tried on the cloak of vice and it stuck to your skin.%u201dThe act finally closes when Rimbaud, who has had it with what he considers the weakness of Verlaine, wants out. Verlaine in despair shoots him and though not hurt Rimbaud calls the authorities when the older poet continues to cajole.Act Three begins with Verlaine%u2019s trial %u2014 ( %u201c The word is sodomite,%u201d he says when accused of such activities) and takes ages winding up. After the two year prison term the poets meet again in the Black Forest %u2014 but Rimbaud who has already given up poetry cuts the connection. The last scene whichContinued on Page 19F a n n y ' sw, v Better4 ^ ( v ^ D r e s s e s W CoatsPant Suitsr x ? ______ ; r i i' 1 r t U I U U B L i i U J C I SatDiscount PricesBankamericard &Mastercharge accepted56 Court StreetM on-Thurs 10-6: Fri til 3