On Broadway: Feb. 25, 1966

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TELEVISION

Wednesday, February 23

CINDERELLA (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.).* Broadway tunesmiths who try to write original musical comedies for TV almost always fail, and Rodgers and Hammerstein were no exception, although this repeat should have a certain charm for the kids.

MICHELANGELO: THE LAST GIANT (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Part 2, the artist's life and work from the time he completed the Sistine Chapel in 1541 to his death in 1564. Jose Ferrer narrates, with Peter Ustinov as the voice of Michelangelo.

Saturday, February 26

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Three seasonal championship contests: Winter National Drag Racing, National Outdoor Speed Skating and North American Tobogganing.

Sunday, February 27

DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Kurd Hatfield in a biography of Trappist Monk and Author Thomas Merton.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite expounds the genius of Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey.

THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A program featuring the lyrics of Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner, with Singers Florence Henderson, Barbara Harris and Stanley ("Get me to the church on time . . .") Holloway.

WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 1 of "Ballerina," a Disneyized drama about a girl who wants to dance, filmed in Denmark with the Royal Danish Ballet.

PERRY MASON (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). "The Case of the Twice-Told Twist" in which Mason gets involved with a gang of teenage Los Angeles car strippers who take their orders from a latter-day Fagin. In color for the first time after nine years of black and white.

Monday, February 28

HOLLYWOOD TALENT SCOUTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Audrey Meadows, Robert Horton and Jan Murray tap some talent, most notably Sherri Spillane, wife of Mickey, who tries some singing. You, the jury.

TESTING: HOW QUICK IS YOUR EYE? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A chance to compare powers of observation with airline pilots, Marine Corps squad leaders, artists, scientists and taxi drivers.

Tuesday, March 1

TOWN MEETING OF THE WORLD (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Early Bird satellite relays a transatlantic discussion about nuclear controls between Senator Robert Kennedy in the U.S., French General Pierre Gallois in Paris, German Politician Franz Josef Strauss in Munich, and British Diplomat Lord Chalfont in Geneva.

THEATER

SWEET CHARITY is spectacular Gwen Verdon, who proves that she is still the dancer assoluta of the U.S. musical stage. Bob Fosse's choreography is fresh, kinetic and witty, but the book, written by Neil Simon, is consistently stale, as if he had heard rather than written the gags.

INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is John Osborne's Inferno, the journey of an "irredeemably mediocre" middle-aged soul through a modern hell. This anti-hero lashes out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes.

THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE blends Brecht with the Theater of Cruelty, mixing in philosophy, revolution and insanity. A skin-tingling assault on the senses.