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Page 6, PHOENIX, May 2, 1)74%u2019Pleasi ire 8> RepBntence'atBAM: A Love of an Eveningby Frances FreedgoodJames Grout: %u201c Do you talk to your wife after making love?%u201d Michael Rederave: %u201c Yes. if there is a telephone handy.%u201dJames Grout: %u201c Twenty years of love makes a woman look like a ruin.%u201d Michael Redgrave: %u201c Yes, but twenty years of marriage make her look like a public building.%u201dAre these wheezing jokes from an old comedy revue? A burlesque show? The 1917 high school yearbook? No, theatergoers. These are the salvos that open the second part of %u201c Pleasure and Repentance,%u201d the Royal Shakespeare Production lately at BAM, and they drew gusts of laughter from an audience happy to be privy to the unfolding lunacies of love.%u201c Pleasure and Repentance%u201d is a merry survey. Love is what the evening is about, beginning with an agreeably worldly view of the elusive emotion by Sir Waiter Raleigh, which opens the program. (It is also the piece from which the title is drawn.) Ecstatic love is juxtaposed to sills sentiment; love is carnal or pure; love is a song, and a music hall joke. Love is unfailingly fascinating, and frequently it is hilarious fun At various points in this amorous mix, a %u201c Bachelor Complains About Married People,\would be wed,%u201d and the Lord God thunders at Adam and Eve, %u201c Who Told Thee That Thou Wast Naked?\although not everyone is happy about it.Interspersing the readings are ballads from America, Ireland, Somerset and Birmingham sweetlysung by Martin Best.Part One touches on love for and by the very young, and proceeds to the joys and perils of courtship. There is Ogden Nash%u2019s alwaysfresh %u201c Song to Be Sung by the Father of Infant Children.%u201d There is a portion from the private journal of the precocious Marjory Fleming. Miss Marjory, age 8, ruminates on the perils of love, finding that %u201cremore is the worst thing.%u201d This impetuous child voluptuously resigns herself to her fate. \afraid I%u2019ll be a martyr to it,\writes. In a love letter, the poet John Keats is lyrically romantic: %u201c Love is my religion...Love is my creed.%u201d An anonymous maiden urgently prays to St. Catherine for a husband - %u201c soon, St. Catherine.%u201d In Mickey Spillane%u2019s %u201c I, the Jury,%u201d love emerges as unconsummated lust. The brawny hero had his hands on the girl; he kissed her hard; he felt temptation; he fought it off; and in the primlyproper end, the girl friend %u201ctook a shower.%u201dFrom illusions and ideals of love, the company moves on. Part Two concerns dyspeptic attitudes, and disillusion. In %u201c The Pooters at Home,%u2019%u2019 a wife with a heart bursting with conjugal happiness cohabits with a husband engrossed in house repairs, economies and domestic chores. D.H. Lawrence rages about %u201c The Mess of Love,%u201d and in %u201cCocoa,%u201d there is %u201c startling news.%u201d Cocoa is discovered to be a mild aphrodisiac.Concluding the program, the company circles back to the beginning, to love between a parent and child. In a letter, George Bernard Shaw movingly describes as an amalgam of flame and laughter, the cremation of his mother.The Royal Shakespeare Company%u2019s %u201c Pleasure and Repentance%u201d offered its audience boundless pleasure. Repentance is for the stay-at-homes.YWCA Announces Summer SessionRegistration for the Early Summer Term of Creative Morning Classes for women will be held May 7-9 at the Brooklyn YWCA. Third and Atlantic Avenues. Babysitting for pre-schoolers is available.Tuesday courses include Swim lesson and Dip, Tennis and Dip, Yoga and Dance or Dip, SewingSnaniy s / ? / s / (li K rsia u n m l12! A tla n tic A v e . 625-8539Authentic CuisineFrom SpainfeaturingIA P A S S p tim s h $ n a ( k %u25a0, > S e iv c d n t B n .So* A Sun Not.n 4 PM OPFN fOR LUNCH AND DiNNtR SfVfcN DATSW g mTake a chicken to lunch-to the beach\iiWorkshop and Carpentry for Beginners. W ednesday morning participants can choose from Yoga, Tennis and Dip, Drawing and Painting and a course titled Know Your Car which deals with basics in how your car works, minor repairs and information on dealing with professional mechanics.Thursday classes are Swim and Dip, Slim and Modern Dance or Dip, Bellydancing and Typing. Programs start with a half hour coffee time at 9:30 and classes running from 10:00 to 11:30 with the exception of Tennis which is a 45 minute class.The Early Summer Session will run for six weeks from the week of May 14th through the w%u2019eek of June 18th. Fees for the courses run SI5.00 a term for an adult without pre-schoolers, $25. for an adult with one child in the nursery and $32.50 for an adult with two children in nursery . YW membership at $6.00 per year is required for participation.For additional information call program director Nancy Pierce at 875-1190.MMlIiWllIHBillWIWMlIllMIHHHIMPIIIIHimillWBMIIlIHHHMmillllllHimilllHimWIimBiHIIlHCad man Towers:Only FinancingPrevent Exodus%u2018%u2018I haven%u2019t hung a picture onthe wall or bought a stick offurniture for this place,%u201d saidElaine Feldman of CadmanTowers Association. %u201c I %u2019mafraid to.%u201dMs. Feldman%u2019s family is oneof 400 middle-income familiesin the Cadman Towers buildingwho are petitioning GovernorWilson for his signature on abill to extend Cadman Towersinterim financing for an additional three years, whichwould keep residents%u2019 monthlycarrying charges at affordable,middle-income levels.The Cadman Towers development was subject to protracted construction delayswhich resulted in the loss,residents say, of favorableinterim financing; passage ofthe bill would actually restorethe financing.%u201c If we lose, says Ms. Feldman,it%u2019s going to mean that anintegrated, middle-incomecommunity of 400 families -can%u2019tsurvive in the City; if thelegislators mean what they sayabout retaining the urban midIi!i!!i!IiliIiimiI!iniiilHllfil!III!i;sl!!!m?SiiI!IIllUliimil)iimilEtIilllllIiIIIIIIilllllllliIIEIIIIlf!lii!I!l%John Jay Music Program Is Varied & Comprehensive101 Clark Streetdie class, now%u2019s the time toprove it. Without that financing, our maintenance costswill rise beyond our ability topay, and we%u2019ll just have to leavethe city. The middle class hasfewer and fewer options; formany of us, this was the lastone after rent control wasabolished.%u201dResponding to a nation-wide survey which television star Oscar Brand says reveals \nation of musical cripples,%u201d Joseph Albertson, music chairman at John Jay High School maintains that students at the Park Slope school are in no way musical cripples. %u201c I think our spring concert on Friday, May 17, will show that we are well ahead of the national norm,%u201d Mr. Albertson commented. %u201c Our students receive the kind of music training which remedies many of the deficiencies in music education which the national survey revealed.%u201d%u2022for a ride in the country;- %u25a0 -in your own backyard Turn an ordinary meal into a picnic with -RE GO'S ROOST jOpen Unity 11 to 11 169 M il a N I I I AVb.(an_iinion)%u25a0%u25a0%u25a0Triple Feature%u2022To celebrate Triangle Parks Special Evening at \BAM for the 78th Precinct on May 4, Cabaret at JMichel%u2019s has brought back, by popular demand, %u25a0thtee fabulous entertainers. a%u25a0Miss Claiborne Cary, singer-comedienne-actress %u00a3Mr. Franklin Roosevelt Underwood, piano, vocals %u00a3and composer of the Broadway musical.%u201c Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen.%u201dMr. Ronny Whyte, piano, vocals, whose album,%u201cWe Luve a Gershwin i une,%u201d was Stereo iReview%u2019s Brat Bet for December.%u201d %u25a0%u25a0All this entertainment-just a hop,* skip and %u25a0deep breath away at Michel%u2019s, 346 Flatbush SAvenue. No cover, no minimum. Thursday, %u00a3Friday & Saturday, 9 to 1. By the way, Mr. %u00a3Underwood will begin an extended engagementwith special acts at Cabaret on Thursday, May 2.Cabaret at Michel%u2019s iLive EntertainmentFriday sj S aturday nigirts I Thursday %u00a3 Sunday niqhfs (Open -to ; 6 3 0 pm to lOprfiRalph Kotkob i Anya Frakerfolk-roc* pianowxal.sf i folk guitaristS U P P E P S E tT V C O 'T I L I A MI3(2> ATLAls/riC AVE. (BET. CUNTON6 HENRY) OOSEO MONCWf %u2022 Q5H-I95\\Hie very famous restaurant in Brooklyn.Announces Mother%u2019s Year.We promise to make Mother%u2019s Day an event she%u2019ll cherish all year long. She will select from our enticing menu of more than 100 Epicurean dishes cooked strictly to her order.She will luxuriate in an unhurried, elegant, nostalgic j, atmosphere preserved from a golden era in New York's history. And like many other patrons who return to us year%u2019 after year, she will leave with warm, happy and loving memories'. It%u2019s how we came to fame.Brooklyn's landmark Seafood and Steak House (Est 1879)Gagextollner 372 Fulton Street (nr. Boro Hall). For reservations, 875-5181. AmexS Diners.Students at John Jay can learn to play guitar as well as the traditional band and orchestra instruments. Keyboard classes will begin in September. There is a folk music club which performs on Fiddle, jew%u2019s harp, and autoharp. Individual talent is discovered and developed. %u201cJust last month we encouraged a student to experiment with bassoon,%u201d Mr. Albertson said, %u201c and now that is his major interest.%u201dMusic appreciation classes use examples from all fields of music to give students a better understanding of the music they encounter as a part of daily living. In addition, there are extracurricular and interdisciplinary activities which provide opportunities for performing musical comedies such as %u201c Bye Bye Birdie,%u201d %u201c Damn Yankees,%u201d and currently %u201c L%u2019il Abner.%u201dSinging classes master a repertory which ranges from the traditional %u201c great%u201d to the topical and contemporary. The school%u2019s dance band is a big student favorite.The annual spring concert, to be presented at 8 p.m. on May 17 in the school auditorium, will feature a string orchestra led by Michael Zaplitny, a concert band conducted by Alan Levine, the dance band under Bernard Lieberman, and a chorus led by Mr. Albertson. Also on the program will be %u201c Country Pickin%u2019s,%u201d the folk music club which has been making a local name for itself since its inception earlier this year.%u201c Musical cripples? I don%u2019t think so,\