[Mb-hair] Re: Good press

[Leo]

This is outasite Katie!! Big time congrats to you and your Tribe. HAIR has 
worked it's wonderful magic once again.

PEACE,
Leo
----- Original Message ----- >
 From: "Katie Kasben" <katiekasben at hotmail.com>
 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

..................... 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.