Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over a crossing just 50 yards ahead. "Come fall," Flaar shouts, "when everybody is going down to the grain elevators, you get lots of guys racing you to a crossing." He tugs on the whistle and sounds a series of short toots and long wails. "That's my hello to an old gentleman in his 80s who lives back there. His relatives say it gives his morale a big boost...
...what was modern thirty years ago no longer works. These days it is actually embarrassing when an actor breaks into song during a scene of a drama, even if the song is well integrated into the ???? why the successful musicals of the sixties- Hello, Dolly, Funny Girl, Mume, and the like-are already sufficiently dated to qualify as camp. Yet, very few people in show business seem to realize how quickly the "modern" musical has aged, how unacceptable these shows are now to most theatregoers under fifty. Certainly Hollywood studio heads are the most blind in this respect, which explains...
...Company comes too late to get the audience that will appreciate it. Too many young theatregoers have either been priced out or bored out of attending Broadway musical theatre. Prince has finally solved the musical's aesthetic problems, but his show must play to the audience that still wants Hello, Dolly. While the theatre-party crowd might accept Prince's modernization of the form, what will they say about the show's tricky music, cynical approach to love, and lack of sentimentality? What will they say when the wonderfully bitchy Elaine Stritch attacks them directly in a "Drinking Song" that...
...great, absolutely fabulous, what's happening in the movies," he said. "The day of the Hollywood-made-and-controlled film is over. The day of the multi-million dollar monolith like Hello. Dolly is over. The only reason I'd make a movie in Hollywood is to make a picture about Hollywood, as it were- shot on location." He leaned over and laughed raucously, his eyes glowing mischievously at the prospect. "Seen All About Eve a lot?" he asked...
...HELLO...