The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1984 Page: 18 of 28
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Hello Hamlet! once again funny, entertaining, and successful
Hello Hamlet!
Tower Theater
October 17
Wait a minute, it hasn't been
four years! No. it hasn't, but last
Wednesday night ai the lower
Theater, Main Street Theatre
staged a benefit performance of
Hello Hamlet! with a special "all-
star cast," including various
Houston actors and veterans of
past productions.
For anyone who wasn't here last
year or just ignored it, Hello
Hamlet! is a musical parody of
both Shakespeare's classic tragedy
and assorted Broadway songs,
including as it does such numbers
as "Put on a Gloomy Face,""Shall
We Fight?" and "I Enjoy Being a
Ghoul." Characters from other
Shakespeare plays also make brief
appearances. There are several
changes in the plot of Hamlet\ for
example, Hamlet is supposed togo
to Grossinger's with Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern, and Ophelia
does not really drown. However,
the story does basically resemble
the version read during one's
senior year in high school.
Hello Hamlet! was written in
1967 by then-student George
Greanias. Greanias went on to law.
teaching, and being a city
councilmember. Wiess College
went on producing the play every
tour vears, and the most recent
William Shakespeare rises from the
production took place last spring.
Wednesday night's all-star cast
was headed by none other than
Mr. Greanias himself. He did a fine
job (although the idea of a balding
Hamlet is a bit unusual) and
obviously enjoyed every moment
of the performance. Terri Branda's
Ophelia was properly overbearing
and man-hungry, and her singing
voice was strong and clear. Tim
Tavcar was a very good King
Claudius and his Louis Armstrong
dead to express his feelings for the author of Hello Hamlet!, George Greanias
rendition of the title song went
very well. Unfortunately, as
Queen Gertrude, Roxanne Shaw's
voice was occasionally weak,
although her acting was fine.
Maurice Tuttle was satisfactory as
Horatio, but didn't live up to the
promise of a hilarious hip-wiggle
in the beginning of the play.
One touch that was quite
different than the performance at
Wiess last year were the roles of
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and
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the Three Witches, which were
filled by two women and three
men, respectively. The ugly sisters
certainly were ugly (two even had
beards) and this worked out well.
However, 1 was not as pleased with
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Sure, they looked cute in tights,
but their femininity could have
been put to more use.
The cast was accompanied by a
nice combo, but occasionally the
music was too strong, overpower-
ing the actors' voices.
Probably as a result of the very
limited run of the play, the set was
extremely simple, consisting o'<
three scaffolds and a few set pieces
moved on and off. The scaffolds
were hung with banners that said E
for Elsinore. They served rather
well, especially in the Busby
Berkeleyesque production of the
title song. The only problem that
arose from this set-up was that the
set crew had some difficulty
moving them between scenes.
Overall, this performance was a
lot of fun. Everyone seemed to
enjoy it immensely, but then a
major part of the audience
consisted of Rice alumni and
people involved in Houston
theatre. It was interesting to see the
performers who had created or
previously occupied roles, and to
see performers over the age of 25 in
this production.
In her beginning speech,
Rebecca Greene Udden (artistic
director of Main Street Theater
and also director of this
production) said that the benefit
for M.S.T. had been a success. So
was the play.
—Karin Murphy
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and sizes in his pictures, is strongly
developed, so that the overall
effect is pleasant. But his
foregrounds, generally flowers on
a flowering tree, were too riotously
colorful, too flat, too linear, and
jarred with the more earthy
background colors. The walls of
villages in the background were
mud-colored, lacking the life of his
city walls, and almost monochro-
matic, killed bv the flamboyancy
of his foregrounds.
There are, however, two
stunning pictures. The first one is
"Rocks and the Sea." In this one.
Zupan demonstrates his feeling for
color and light while subduing his
chromatic overzealousness. It is a
cool, soothing picture, one I would
like in mv bedroom, one I would
like to look at again and again
because it did remind me of the sea,
I could feel it. The other one is
"Slavic Memories," an incredibly
subdued picture in both color and
tone. It is a dusky winter forest
scene; through the trees there is a
hint of a village, a hint of people
beneath the trees, as well as three
definite figures. All are hunched
over, and their backs are towards
the viewer. It is a cold picture; its
effect is one of despair and
emptiness, yet somehow,
somewhere, it contains warmth,
maybe in the church, maybe in the
sky.
It is powerful.
Zupan's watercolors work in the
same way that his oils sometimes
do not. The lightness and delicacy
of hue that characterize
watercolors balance Zupan's
flamboyancy and energy, traits
that become overbearing in the
heavier oils. The use of ink to
outline also gives these pictures the
concreteness that is lacking in his
oils. And the simplicity of his
pictures counteract the complexity
of his brushstrokes. Their impact is
nowhere as great as that of any of
his oils, but their effect lasts longer.
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Havlak, Paul. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1984, newspaper, October 26, 1984; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245572/m1/18/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.