[Mb-hair] Good press

Fri Sep 23 16:35:31 PDT 2005

Personally... I have to side with the traditionalists.. Which is strange for me, as I am usually standing on the outside looking in. I've only seen Hair done the traditional way but I don't think I would like it reworked..  I do know that I Did Jesus Christ Superstar (Jesus) and we did it traditional way.. It was great and got mass appeal and press, Maybe two years later a larger theatre did it, I went to audition and had doubts when I read that the director was going to change it up.. I auditioned anyway.. and would have been cast as Jesus again, had I agreed to cut my hair.. The directors vision was to have Jesus be basically a skinhead. (I would not cut my freak flag and I didn't get the part.) A friend of mine got the part of Jesus and I went to see it.. I have to say.. I hated it.. Judas died from shooting up Heroin, The gaurds had guns and camoflauge and when Jesus died, nobody cried. I was so glad I didn't get the part. Again.. I have not seen Hair done any other way..
  but
 from that experience with JCS I doubt I would dig it.  My opinion.. JIM

richard haase <hotprojects at nyc.rr.com> wrote:I disagree
it is a question of the quality of the choice
if the updating is done sublimely
it will be sublime
if its badly done it will be bad

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Preston" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Good press

> I am right behind both of you.
> Way to go Robin and Way to go Katie
> HAiR is a piece of American Culture and should stay that way. HAiR really
> tells things like they are so everyone can understand if they will open
> there minds. It is also a lot of FUN and goodness. You know HAPPY along
> with some sad. There is that Message that gets but across.
>
> Peace, Love, & Blessings
> ~~Charles ~~
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robin McNamara" 
> To: 
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Good press
>
>
> > Congratulations Katie, sounds like you did a wonderful job & yes a show
> > should go on the road, that way through press & interviews we could
> > articulate how relevant Hair is today in contemporary times instead of
> > changing it like they did in London. In my opinion Hair is a powerful
> > period piece in American Culture & should stay that way.
> >
> > Love forever
> > Robin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Katie Kasben" 
> > To: 
> > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 3:24 PM
> > Subject: [Mb-hair] Good press
> >
> >
> >> Hey Kids,
> >>
> >> I wanted to share with you a great letter to the editor of the Raleigh
> >> News and Observer (our state capitol's paper, and about 4 hours away
from
> >> here):
> >>
> >> *the last two paragraphs are my favourite...
> >>
> >> Mark Schultz
> >> Orange County editor
> >> The News & Observer
> >> Chapel Hill News editor
> >> (919) 932-2003
> >>
> >> Now is the time to act
> >> Perry Young column for September 05
> >>
> >> A few weeks ago, a very nice lady organized a genteel gathering at
> >> the downtown post office in support of Cindy Sheehan's anti-war
> >> protest outside the President's vacation ranch in Crawford, Texas.
> >> I hung about the edges, expecting to be bored by the usual liberal
> >> speeches. But, no, this woman said there would be no speeches, just a
> >> quiet show of support. And, so, for several long minutes, we just
> >> stood there.
> >>
> >> I finally wandered off, frustrated that nobody was saying anything,
> >> nobody was doing anything. More to the point, why wasn't I doing
> >> more?
> >>
> >> After witnessing the obscenity of the senseless slaughter in Vietnam
> >> as a correspondent, I came back and joined in every major peace march
> >> on Washington. Then, as now, our President showed a profound
> >> indifference to poor people in this country and the devastation we
> >> were causing half way around the world. As we sang, "All we are
> >> saying is give peace a chance," armed troops surrounded the White
> >> House and turned the tear gas on us.
> >>
> >> Now it seems one pathetic Gold Star mother has finally aroused our
> >> outrage about the lies that led to the current quagmire in Iraq. Ms.
> >> Sheehan's courageous and timely stand was pushed to the back pages by
> >> hurricane Katrina and the unbelievable pictures of the needless
> >> suffering and dying of people not in Somalia or Iraq, but in our own
> >> backyard.
> >>
> >>
> >> We looked in the mirror and were appalled by our own self-image. The
> >> richest country the world has ever known was simply incapable of
> >> taking care of its own people in a time of crisis. The Bush
> >> administration was suddenly exposed for what it has been all along:
> >> an incompetent bunch of ideologues who are simply not worthy of the
> >> high offices they've been pushed into.
> >>
> >> It is one thing to giggle and grin about the sport of hardball
> >> politics; it is quite another when these kinds of self-serving
> >> decisions result in the loss of lives and livelihoods of hundreds of
> >> thousands of people. The President is guilty of criminal neglect on a
> >> scale never before seen in America. We are left with the indelible
> >> images of the poor people in Louisiana and Mississippi crying out for
> >> help while Condi Rice gads about New York and Bush blithely flies off
> >> to San Diego for another multi- million dollar fund raiser.
> >>
> >> It is eerie to watch; as Bush actually seems to look more and more
> >> like Nixon with his weirdly inappropriate facial gestures and that
> >> loony giggle that often follows even the most solemn words written for
> >> him to mispronounce.
> >>
> >> But in this moment of our country's dire need, some rays of hope
> >> shine through. The glamorous stars of television came alive as never
> >> before and proved themselves worthy of the profession of Edward R.
> >> Murrow. For once, the administration could not put a happy face on
> >> yet another catastrophe. This time, their lies could be proven by the
> >> pictures, live and in color from the battlefront.
> >>
> >> And in spite of our leaders indifference, the American people have
> >> responded with an outpouring of love and generosity unparalleled in
> >> our history. People aren't just giving money, they're offering up
> >> their times, their homes, their very lives to help. Maybe we are
> >> finally overcoming the greed and selfishness of the 1980s and 1990s.
> >> As if in answer to my personal yearning for the 1960s, I was recently
> >> invited back to Asheville for a new production of the rock musical,
> >> Hair.
> >>
> >> Now, if you think nothing could be more dated than this show which I
> >> first saw as a cabaret skit at Cheetah discotheque in New York in
> >> 1967, you are dead wrong. As I sat listening to the joyful music of
> >> protest to war, to racism, to the destruction of the environment, I
> >> realized that every word was just as relevant today as it was 40 years
> >> ago. Tears flooded down my face as an Asheville delegation of
> >> Veterans for Peace staged the last scene in this version of Hair,
> >> bringing in the flag-draped casket of the young hippie who got drafted
> >> and killed in Vietnam. I urged the incredibly talented young
> >> director, Katie Kasben, to take the show on the road. All America is
> >> ready to renew those anthems of peace and "let the sunshine in"!
> >>
> >> Just as I remembered from the 1967 show, there were "peace and love"
> >> people outside the theater getting signatures on petitions and signing
> >> people up for the bus ride to the next big peace march on Washingtron.
> >> It'll be on Saturday, September 24. I plan to be there; I love the
> >> smell of tear gas in the morning.
> >>
> >>
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