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Chelsea to Stick Toe Deeper Into Manhattan Watersl ON IISH 1) FROM I%u2019AGI- Minnovative productions for free. But what they came up with offended the Church%u2019s elders, so they moved briefly to another church. %u201c There the Monsignor got on our backs.%u201d In 1968 they received an invitation from the Brooklyn Academy. In one bold stroke Halfin opted for Brooklyn and a transformation of the Center to a major professional theater with a full production schedule. Soon after, David and Hash joined Halfin.Needless to say, it worked. Starting with Leroi Jones%u2019s %u2018%u2018Slaveship,%u2019%u2019 in 1969, success followed upon success. Genet%u2019s %u201cThe Screens%u201d won the Drama Critic%u2019s award for the best foreign play of 1971. Productions of Allen Ginsberg%u2019s %u201c Kaddish%u2019%u2019 and John Gay%u2019s %u201c The Beggar%u2019s Opera,%u201d born in Brooklyn, were later moved to regular off-Broadway theaters for substantial runs in 1972. Last year Peter Handke%u2019s %u201c Kaspar%u201d was awarded two Obies, and this year David Storey%u2019s %u201cThe Contractor%u201d and %u201c Candide%u201d walked off with the Drama Critics%u2019 Award for Best Play and Best Musical respectively. As for %u201c Candide,%u201d five Tony%u2019s and two Obies as well.Chelsea now has its toe in Manhattan%u2019s waters in another way. Last year the Center leased a former Lutheran Church on West 43rdStreet to serve as an %u201c annex%u201d for their Brooklyn operation. Headquarters in Brooklyn with a Manhattan branch? %u201c We need to develop space in Manhattan to launch other productions in our Brooklyn season,%u201d Burl explained. %u201c We%u2019ll move certain of our productions there after a run in Brooklyn; but, for the most part, the space will be used by other companies needing it.%u201d Chelsea plans a cabaret theater in one of the two spaces there, and a %u201c miniseason%u201d of productions by other companies in the Fall. The main rational for the annex is to reduce the costs of producing in Manhattan. It will also produce more income for the Center%u2019s operations in Brooklyn.What can we expect from the new season? The unexpected. %u201c We%u2019ve narrowed down our choices considerably, but what we%u2019ll come up with we still don%u2019t know,%u201d says Michael. If Chelsea%u2019s penchant for the unpredictable has any form at all, we might postulate that the productions won%u2019t be about Blacks, won%u2019t be %u2018serious and relevant,%u2019 won't be foreign, won%u2019t be a musical, but who knows? Chelsea may feature next season the first foreign musical comedy about Blacks treating serious and relevant political themes in their typical irreverent manner.Candide [Mark Baker] and Cunegonda [Maureen Brennan] sit bemused by their travails in %u201c thebest of all possible worlds.%u201dCollages, Model Ship Share Berth In Gallery 91%u2019s %u2018Snip and Ship%u2019Blue-haired Prince to CourtPacker Theater A udiencesEugene the Genie, who forgot his magic-Pepe, the Parrot of many Tail Feathers--Figaro, the Fat Castillian Cat-this is just a sampling of the many delightful, zany characters that frolic through %u201cThe Prince with Blue Hair,%u201d second production of the Popcorn & Popsicle Theatre, Brooklyn Heights%u2019 own theatre for children at Packer Collegiate Institute, 160 Joralemon St.%u201cThe Prince with Blue Hair%u201d is a new and original fairy tale, set in Old Spain. It tells the story of Princess Arabella and the evil Joaquin the Bluebeard, who masquerades as Arameo, the rightful Prince of Granada.The play is written and directed by Jane Stanton, managing director of the Popcorn & Popsicle, a theatre company of teenagers. Ms. Stanton confesses to stealing three locked doors and some blue tresses from the ancient and fearsome tale of %u201c Bluebeard\blance to this happy story ends. The production boasts a singable musical score by Andi StrykerRodda.%u2018 %u2018The Prince with Blue Hair%u2019 %u2019, the second of a four production season for the ambitious Popcorn & Popsicle Theatre company, will open next week for a seven performance run: June 24, 25, 26 and 27, and July 1, 2 and 3. All performances are at 1:30 p.m. Regular admission is $1, with group rates available. Reservations can be made by calling 875-6644.BY EILEEN BLAISCollage is an especially expressive contemporary art form. This medium is a synthesis of input, drawn from other media and reshaped with the artist%u2019s particular vision into a new context%u2014recycled, if you will. Roger Erickson%u2019s collages currently on exhibit at Gallery 91 exemplify this melding of documentation and fantastic vision.Eight years in the making, Erickson%u2019s collage, %u201c Devil Lake State Park,%u201d is an impressive work, drawing mainly from newsprint elements with selective color applications. Monsters, nudes, cartoons, reproductions of old engravings and industrial clippings are used by the artist to describe and define the effect of such images on the unconscious. The result is a rhythmic fantasy in which the yellowed newsprint suggests a venerability quite alien to the mind-teasing, surreal effect of the composition. %u201c Devil Lake State Park%u201d is an updated Inferno, the gospel according to McLuhan.In \incorporates \ments (a flying, suited executive from a glossy periodical and horrific commemorative stamps, for example) and our daily bread ofO L D M E X I C O LunchH-12 PMRESTAURANT | 1 Dinner115 Montague St. | p l S I 5-10 PMD%u00bbdn' t To this ye/SR %u2022TheN visit %u00a3O UVLAKji *47 AXowTafeuc St.- tk i -ttu s & u x < 4 .The YWCA of BrooklynPrivate Health Club for Men & WomenFeaturing...Luxurious heated pool-distance swimming Gym, Jogging track, Tennis practice,Table tennis Hand Ball, Paddle Ball,Paddle tennis,Fully equipped exercise room %u2022Total privacy in showers, iockers, dressing rooms.Professional personal supervisionSauna<4 i l i r \\ n i n n.......................oHealth Club DirectorHy Schaffer: 875-1190 YWC A$ 150.00 per y ear. JOIN NOW! YWCA Health Club 30 Third A w on n o R r n n U t / n M V 11917restorersrenovatorstheBROWNSTONEINSURANCEPROGRAMfl,e V *from the BR0WNST0NEAGENCY INC.Division ol Murphy & Jordan111 John S t, New York, NY 10038coaxing packaging (food labels, etc.) in an effort to %u201c objectify certain images to see if they are dangerous.%u201d But the artist issues no indictment of advertising%u2019s sophisticated manipulation with images.Erickson%u2019s pen-and-ink drawings also on display at the Gallery until July 4 are notable, especially in relation to the collages, for their lack of dependence on image. These black-and-white, rhythmic landscapes suggest Dubuffet set in motion, a distillation of form into energy.In addition to Erickson%u2019s work. Gallery 91%u2019s current exhibit entitled %u201c Ship and Snip!%u201d also includes a 12-foot replica of a 1610 galleon by artist Malcolm McKesson. McKesson spent ten years buildingthis seaworthy replica in wood and fiberglas. Working in plastic wood, he has molded and sculpted the ship's details with a remarkable precision. Sailors, porthole covers, heraldic carving on the bow, sails and rigging are painstakingly reproduced in McKesson's scaled-down model of the great Prynce Royale.Strange bedfellows, perhaps. A hand-crafted model of a 17th-century galleon and a collection of collages that form a deliberately exaggerated fun-house image of the 20th century---but the show works, and should be seen. One lament%u2014 we would've liked to see more of Erickson%u2019s collages. Visual assault is a daily component of our lives, and the more refractions Erickson presented, the more the point would be driven home.I The Community Bookstore of Pori Slope# w ill o p e n a g o o d b o o k s to re on! M ontague StreetIIIPEKINGP A L A C EX uiidarin anil S iech u a n cuisineI I a.its. to tfidnighlH o n T h u r s . I | 1Oi.'MipmSi%u00bbr\\ii%u00bbi* l unc'h and llim io rI till M*r\\in* liar romint: soon O rders to lake outHenry (neoi Clort* Street) Telephone 05$ 5003 ^ t'MON T|JI JRS, 11 30 AAA / FRI SAT, 11.30 1) 30 PM SUN , 1200 10 30 PMSummer High School Art WorkshopsPainting, Drawing, Sculpture, CeramicsThe School off A rt And ResignPratt Institute,Brooklyn, N.Y.Eligibility:Hiqh school students who will have successfully completed their sophomore, junior or senior year by June 30.Tuition:(Supplies not included in tuition cost)$60 per sinqle-period session three hours daiiv. three weeks.%u00a3100 Der double-period sessionsix ho urs daily, three weeks.For Complete Schedulesand Application Forms,Associate Dean Charles M. Roberlson Director, Summer High School Workshops The School of Art and Design Pratt Institute Brooklyn, N.Y. 11205 (212) 636 3620June 20, 1974, PHOENIX, Page 15