Word: hokey
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...choose our winners because they have made a lasting and significant contribution to the field of entertainment,” says HPT press manager Joanna S. B. O’Leary ’03,who is apparently already comfortable with hokey-sounding PR platitudes. The HPT executive board meets over the summer to consider which stars to honor. O’Leary, who is not directly involved in the selection process, does not detail the selection timeline but emphasizes that the executive board knows who is booked for Man and Woman of the Year well before the information...
...This hokey 1958 Broadway hit has justly languished in dinner theaters ever since. Now, in a radical revision at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, playwright David Henry Hwang treats the original like "some kind of weird Oriental minstrel show," as one character puts it, and wraps its assimilationist anthems into a merry multicultural trip from Tiananmen Square to San Francisco's Chinatown. Director-choreographer Robert Longbottom adds a dollop of kitsch--and somehow the mix is funny and clever. It even jerks a tear or two. Broadway, get ready...
...more inspired, wow. There is a death-by-falling sequence that would be tremendously clever even if it weren’t mocking falls in musicals such as Les Miserables. And all of the scenes that depict dead characters are accomplished not only with the right amount of hokey acting and writing but with a low budget effect that grows funnier each time it recurs. Like similar on-the-cheap elements in the show, it humorously riffs on the low budget nature of Urinetown while exposing the frailty of such a device when employed seriously in other musicals...
...Manhattan, where "good" is just the name of a restaurant in Greenwich Village and "evil" is what we call the prices at the new Chanel store in SoHo, the concept of miracles seemed a little hokey until last week. A pointy-head at one of the city's universities might have said the idea of the miraculous is an old metaphor that needs demystifying...
...languages the tunes were sung in. Even a few translated songs had the novelty of distance and difference - "Skokian," for instance. As I recall the English lyric, it wore its ethnographic condescension jovially: "Oh, far away in Africa,/ Happy happy Africa,/ They do a bingo-bongo-bingo/ In hokey-smoky-Skokian...