Tom Gustafson's
Hello Again was really bad. This is a queer (or sort of queer) musical version of Schnitzler's
La Ronde with music by Michael John LaChiusa. And, like all versions of
La Ronde that I've seen, it has nothing holding it together. This one compounds that problem further by having each actor play a
different character in his or her next sequence. So we don't even get a single character for more than one musical number. Worse yet, everyone in this piece is unhappy.
The film was also obviously made on the cheap. The whole thing is unfortunate.
I remember liking Gustafson's film
Were the World Mine, which was also a cheaply made, overtly theatrical musical film about gay romance, but
Hello Again is not interesting, despite its more recognizable cast.
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