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Hello Again

Music & Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa
Opened January 30, 1994 at the Lincoln Center Theatre, (New York)and ran for 65 Performances.

Synopsis

Ten nameless characters pair up in ten different scenes of sexual pleasure and/or despair. One character from each scene moves on to the next, seemingly dumping his old partner in favor of new prey. The play begins in 1900 with a Prostitute soliciting an unwilling Soldier. The next scene takes place in the 1940s, and the Soldier, afraid of dying in the war, tussles with a sympathetic Nurse. Next, the Nurse becomes a 1960's dominatrix over her patient, an upper-crust College Boy with wild leanings. In the 1930s, the College Boy reappears as the impotent partner of an adulterous Young Wife who can only have relations with him in seedy, out-of-the-way places. Meeting the woman's Husband in the next scene, we see why she's been driven to such moral turpitude. In her loneliness, the Wife dances a haunting pas-de-deux with the mirror image of her repressed, sensual self. Experiencing the Wife's scene from a totally different perspective, we then meet the Husband as a closet homosexual (and on the Titanic, no less), using the ship's imminent demise to steal a tango with a gorgeous boy hustler called the Young Thing. Shifting to a 1970's disco, a bisexual Writer lures the Young Thing home only to feel the creeping certainty of a morning-after desertion. Finally, the circle of lovers closes where it all began. A Senator quits his relationship with an Actress because of political liabilities, then seeks the Prostitute from the first scene, whom he desperately wishes he could love. A tableau begins forming in the background, with all the couples singing "Hello Again" over and over in a moody recognition of love's inescapable pull.

Song List

Hello Again
Zei Gezent
Tom
I Gotta Little Time
We Kiss
In Some Other Life
Story of My Life
At the Prom
Ah, Maien Zeit!
Listen To The Music
Montage
Safe
The One I Love
Silent Movie
Rock With Rock
Angel Of Mercy
Mistress of the Senator
The Bed Was Not My Own

Info

Original Cast included: Judy Blazer, Donna Murphy, Carolee Carmello, Malcolm Gets, Michele Pawk, John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Park, Dennis Parlato, John Dossett & David White.

Related

Hello Again MIDI Files
Hello Again (1994 Original Broadway Cast) [SOUNDTRACK] -- Michael John LaChiusa; Audio CD
Michael John LaChiusa Sheet Music

Licensing Agent

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440 Park Ave South New York ,NY 10016
(212) 683-8960

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