Talk:Hello Out There!

There sare two factual errors (and some missing information) in this article pertaining to Al Pacino's association with the play Hello Out There. First, Pacino's 1963 performance, his debut before a paying audience, was far from Broadway. It was at the progenitor of Off-Off-Broadway, the Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village. Second, the director of the production, Charles Laughton, was not the famous British actor (who died a year before Pacino performed the Saroyan play). "Charlie" Laughton, who is still alive, though ill, was a New York acting teacher and Pacino was in his class in those years. The class was working on Hello Out There as a project and Laughton thought it was good enough to put before an audience. He was a friend of Joe Cino, the former dancer who opened the coffeehouse that became a Village focus for poetry, music, and new plays. Laughton asked Cino to let his students present the play at the Caffe, and they were given a weekend to do so. (When the audience laughed at some of Pacino's early lines, he was so upset at the unexpected, but legitemate, reaction, he went out into an alley between scenes and had to be coaxed back in to finish the performance.) 12.64.180.24 22:34, 17 April 2007 (UTC)R. E. Kramer