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1 23 DETROIT FREE PRESSFRIDAY, JUNE 2. 1978 Makarova is back at the barre 'Sly Fox9 is canceled Appearance third since son 's birth By MARY CAMPBELL 21. A future St Louis engagement also was canceled. Refunds will be made at the box office, a Fisher spokesman said, or by mail, if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed with the request GLEASON BEGAN his "Sly Fox" tour in San Diego in mid-April, successfully played in San Francisco, and had opened at the Blackstone Theatre In Chicago last month before he became ILL He was hospitalized for tests there last weekend. The cancellation of "Sly Fox," which also starred Cleavon Little and Irwin Corey, leaves the Fisher with an unfilled six weeks in its summer schedule.

jiiiiiiiiK By LAWRENCE DeVINE FrM Prat Oram Critic Ailing star Jackie Gleason has canceled his entire Detroit appearance In the comedy "Sly Fox," forcing the Fisher Theatre to refund more than $100,000 in advance ticket sales. Gleason, 62, was stricken recently in Chicago with a still-unspecified chest Illness in the middle of a five-city tour in the Larry Gelbart com-edv. His "Sly Fox" was sched- "But for that time nothing exists In life but to give birth to a normal healthy baby." SHE INTENDED to devote herself entirely to taking care of the baby for a month after he was born. But to her surprise, "My muscles said, Get up, get up, do The day after the natural childbirth, she got out of her hospital bed and touched her head to her knees. "I felt fantastic.

Before, when I tried, was stomach there. To put myself together like that was a nice feeling." uled to open at the Fisher June its grace and ethereal, emotional qualities. Since "the biggest thing In my life" the birth of the child she calls "Andrushka" she said she thinks her dancing has changed and become even more expressive of her emotions. "I can find In myself now something more serene; dancing is like talking with myself. I feel I am coloring the steps differently.

I feel more inside myself and at the same time more outward. "I have a child. I grab him, kiss him. I love him. I feel It Is the great culmination of my life.

I'm full of life and spirit How can I not put it in my dancing?" Miss Makarova did her last dancing befoore the baby's birth at the end of August at the Edinburgh Festival, in the title role of "La Sylphlde" with the Scottish Ballet After that she said, ahe Just enjoyed life. She practiced at the barre, she said, "because I am a serious TONIGHT AT 8 P.M. SAT. 2 P.M. 8 P.U.

Sunday 2 and 7 fM. I at. NEW YORK After the biggest event In her life having a baby ballerina Natalia Makarova has re turned to dancing. She and Fernando Bujones recently danced the pas de deux from "Don Quixote" as an evening at American Ballet Theater was shown "Live from Lincoln Center" on Public Broadcasting Serylce stations, Including Channel 58 in 1 Detroit MISS MAKAROVA defected from Russia's Kirov Ballet In London In September 1970 and joined Ballet Theater month later. She was born in Leningrad in 1940, and had been a member of the Kirov since graduating from its school in 1959.

Immediately after defect-fog to the West, she said she wanted to dance new roles and works, something she said want possible with the Kirov. She returned to the stage recently in ballet Jerome Robblns choreographed for tier and Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1976, "Other Dances." Z'Jltr only fear, she said, was that she might have lost Eer "sense of stage." She said AP Photo Ballerina Natalia Makarova defected from Ruaala In 1970 because aha wanted to danco now rolea. 8ho Joined tho Amarlcan Ballet Theater a month lattr. fw II3BTP0OPL0! she was relieved to find she had not. The PBS special was her third appearance since the birth of Andre-Michel Karkar on Feb.

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