However, I’ve been experiencing a hang during pdflatex execution when using the “itemize” environment.

This works:

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{beamerarticle}
\begin{document}
Hello.
\end{document}

This doesn’t:

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{beamerarticle}
\begin{document}
Hello.
\begin{itemize}
\item{hello}
\end{itemize}
\end{document}

It works fine with enumerate and description environments, and when I
use the book or article documentclasses. But because I like Memoir, I want to fix it.

So I did what every self-respecting techie would do, and posted to Usenet. We’ll see how this turns out.