Word: hallelujahs
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...tract on the evils of Portuguese colonialism, into a mimetic dance of pain, fury, death and anticipatory joy. For a troupe in its infancy, opening night at Manhattan's St. Mark's Playhouse off Broadway marked a large stride toward the dream of Co-Founder Robert Hooks (Hallelujah, Baby!): "If in ten years we can compete with all the other companies in the country, I'll be satisfied...
...HALLELUJAH, BABY! is nothing, baby, except a vehicle for Singer Leslie Uggams to show her wares and wiles...
...Oscar portraying Homer Smith, the book's footloose handyman hero, who used ingenuity, faith and adobe bricks to build a Catholic chapel for a penniless order of German-speaking nuns. In this sequel, Homer works another miracle when, pressed into service as an evangelist at an old-fashioned hallelujah tent meeting, he inspires a crippled girl to walk. Although his tale is almost too short and slight to be put between hard covers, William Barrett (The Left Hand of God, Woman on Horseback) tells it with artful simplicity, and Homer retains the dimensions of a genuine folk hero...
...into Manhattan to conduct her own kind of revival meeting at the Copacabana. Her songbook is a primer course in variety and good taste. Tall and wickedly curvy in a snug, deep-dish gown, she swoops down into gutsy little growls for Walk On By, soars up into high, hallelujah quavers for What the World Needs Now Is Love...
...catalogue which lumps Mother Courage in a list with Hallelujah Baby is bound to be a little perverse. Nevertheless, a shift is clearly discernible, not among the artists but in their audience. Unlike television fads -- detectives, cowboys, spies, camp heroes -- theatrical styles are not plotted out in advance. There is no planned obsolescence. Seasons fill an audience demand; they are based on what went well the last time around. Currently, the audience wants social commentary--in one form or another...