Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Woods cannot change the situation by itself or even by example. For one thing, imitation is a less viable route to success in the theater than in prime-time TV. For another, only Sondheim is Sondheim. Says Composer- Lyricist Jerry Herman, author of La Cage aux Folles and Hello, Dolly: "We would all agree that Steve is the genius of the group, the one who keeps on taking the musical theater to new places." What Into the Woods does, gloriously, is make the case for what musicals might be, blending innovation and old-fashioned storytelling into an elixir of delight...
Cleary (looking up): "Hello...
...perhaps the blame lies more in Hello Again's genre than in the acting or the script. Yuppies are just not very funny people, and this holds true even for the resurrected ones...
...Hello Again abuses the talent of its cast with an inexcuseably trite fairy tale of a plot. Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) is a frumpy, suburban housewife who feels somewhat displaced in the glitzy Manhattan cocktail set that she mingles with for the sake of her ambitious husband (Corbin Bernsen). "Isn't this party just suhblime!" coos Lucy's best friend and society beauty, Kim (Sela Ward). But nervous Lucy commits one social faux pas after another, culminating in a grand exit down the balustrade where she exposes more than just her sheepish grin...
...Hello Again often succeeds at being funny, but maybe too deliberately so. The relentless barrage of one-liners tends to inspire nervous laughter. The "death" jokes, for example, prove to be of the worst taste: "I wouldn't have been caught dead in that dress," "I thought I'd never live to see the day," "Conquering death, that was a killer...