Word: hellzapoppin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hair--A hippie "Hellzapoppin" with a lot of spirit and a nice score firmly based in the vocabulary of early rock. Only when the authors try too hard to explain to our parents what the new culture is all about do things become a little thick. Tom O'Horgan is the director, and the nice cast includes Barry McGuire and the nice Heather MacRae. At the BILTMORE, W. 47th...
Like most revues that have pleased Broadway recently, Wait a Minim is not American and not strictly a revue. Ten years ago. La Plume de ma Tante, a French non-revue with a Hellzapoppin heart, zipped through its evenings on a series of musical numbers that somehow fell apart before they ever could get started. Coming a little later, England's Beyond the Fringe had little music and a lot of satire. Wait a Minim, standing somewhere between its predecessors, has its own hybrid identity. While the collapsing songs of Plume abound, so do jeering sketches, and, in a throwback...
...falling off. When Utility Magnate Samuel Insull decided to build a new opera house as a showcase for his actress wife and persuaded the Chicago Civic Opera to relocate with him, the Auditorium's days seemed numbered. In 1941, the final curtain went down on a production of Hellzapoppin. During World War II, the empty hall was turned over to the U.S.O.; hot-dog stands and coffee bars were set up, and seats were ripped out to make room for bowling alleys. Only a decision by the newly founded Roosevelt University to take over the dilapidated building...
...comfort U.S. televiewers to learn that European programming has its shortcomings too. The highest TV rating in the history of Eurovision went last week to Games Without Boundaries (called It's a Knockout in Britain), a sort of Hellzapoppin' Olympics that would make Truth or Consequences seem comparatively cerebral. Yet the six-nation finals pulled more than 70 million viewers in six countries...
Broadway does cherish one "original"-George Abbott. At the ripe old age of 80, he is directing an updated Hellzapoppin (1938-41), this time with Soupy Sales and Nancy Walker. Another Abbott entry: a musical version of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, featuring Tom Bosley (Fiorello!). For Abbott, the shows are the 109th and 110th of his career...