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In its ingenious verbal shorthand, "Please Hello!" — a song about West meeting East — best shows off Sondheim's theatrical panache.
It's like, Please, hello — let's have others in here now".
Only with the elaborate patter number, "Please Hello," in which admirals of many nations descend in an ambassadorial babel, does something seem to be lost, as it were, in translation.
There is plenty of room, both for the echoes of eventful change to resonate as Kayama (Kevin Gudahl), the minor official who is one of the central characters, sings the haunting solo "A Bowler Hat," and for the witty and chaotic production number "Please Hello," which depicts a diplomatic invasion of Japan by a flood of smiling and threatening Western emissaries.
(How else to explain the toasted insect I gulped down at the Aboriginal village in Australia?) And so, after 30 months of frugal travel, I have learned to say "please," "hello" and "thank you," (and, if pressed, "where is the bathroom" and "bring me a beer, please") in Hungarian, Tamil, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Croatian, German, Slovenian, Laotian and Cantonese, among others.
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