Bohemian Theatre Ensemble Presents HELLO AGAIN, 4/2-5/1

BoHo Theatre brings the contemplative, sometimes controversial, but not often done musical Hello Again to its cozy venue this spring with verve.
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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 1960s 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 1970s 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 haunting and sensual tale culminating in the moody recognition of love's inescapable pull.

AT A GLANCE:
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Who/What: Bohemian Theatre Ensemble presents
Hello Again
Where: BoHo Theatre -- 7016 N. Glenwood
When:
Opening: Friday, April 2 at 8:00
Running: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8:00
Sundays at 2:00
Closing: Saturday, May 1, 2010
Tickets: Call the box office at 866-811-4111
Cost: $19-$22