Hello-out there!
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Hello Out There! is a one act play by William Saroyan, written early in August 1941.
[edit] Plot
- The story takes place in a small Texas jail. Throughout most of the play, there are only two characters, Photo-Finish and Emily, both are only referred to by Saroyan as A Young Man and A Girl
[edit] Stage History
- The play was first performed at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara on 10th of September, as the curtain raiser to George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, and after that has been performed in many languages around the world, where its two characters -despite their chronological differences- could have reflected themselves in different cultures successfully. Al Pacino played Young Man in a production of the play. It was his first Broadway appearance on stage (directed by Charles Laughton, in 1963).
- In 1949, the play was made into a film short by James Whale and millionaire Huntington Hartford, starring Harry Morgan, Marjorie Steele, Lee Patrick, and Ray Teal. The film, proposed to be an anthology film like Quartet (1948), was never released because Hartford was unhappy with the film. The film was Whale's last.
