[Mb-hair] Good press

Fri Sep 23 19:57:15 PDT 2005

i was making a very simple statement
i just said
that all of the original participants as far as i know
have for the very most part
always advocated against a serious updating to the present etc
preferring to set the piece in 68 - 69 as it originally was
thats all i was saying
i dont think thats inaccurate

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Good press


> You are entitled to your opinion.
> Where did you get your list pf traditionalists?
> That is not an opinion. it is a statement
>
> > what do you mean michael?
> > i just have a different opinion\
> > its all right
> > debate is healthy
> > you traditionalists are entitled to your opinion
> > im entitled to mine
> >
> >
> > and again im making a quantitative operational discernment\
> > not a qualitative one
> > debate gentlemen is healthy
> > and no one loves the original production more than me
> > greatest in the theater i ever spent ever
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: James Pappaconstantine
> > To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
> > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 7:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Good press
> >
> >
> > 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 o ther
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 McNamar a"
> >> 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
> >>>> speec hes. 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 i t 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 co untry'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 bac k 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 a nd "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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