[Mb-hair] Re: Good press

[richard haase]

also understand i dont find it dated
im a hair freak
but the critics and the general populace?
i wonder if psychologically
anything set then set in a historical period
to the average american
conjures up taking a history lesson
?
and americans dont like to go to school

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leo" <peacefreak at metrocast.net>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:22 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Good press


> 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.
>
>
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