[Mb-hair] Gate HAIR report

[Sherwin Ross]

May I ad my two cents worth......

In the past year I have been to two HAiR plays, Bridgeport CT and Santa Anna
University, Both times I cried like a baby....

When I played Berger, staged by Robert Camuto and Sally Eaton, every
performance we did, when I looked into the audience during "Let the Sunshine
In", there was not a dry eye out there.

Why would anyone even consider changing a master piece?
YOU CAN NOT CHANGE HISTORY AND HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF. 
People need to see HAiR, without one word from the original Tames Whitmark
Book being changed!

Just my opinion :)



-----Original Message-----
From: mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com
[mailto:mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com] On Behalf Of richard haase
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 12:15 PM
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Gate HAIR report

it sounds nasty
but
again i would say its a bad adaptation
not the fault of updating per se in principal

it sounds like the director at 26 had no idea
what hair was or what the 60s were etc

i think first of all for the updating to work it must be minimal
the extraneous insertion of ipods or S and M
or making white boys and black boys homosexual etc

or having the nude scene with mickey mick
etc
it all just sounds really bad

obviously i think aside from a few topical changes
and subtle changes in mis en scene
the script/book is perfectly contemporary as is etc

shame
it sounded like a courageous attempt at the gate
that went terribly wrong
shame
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] Gate HAIR report


>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: ocsomtan at aol.com
> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:52:42 -0400
> To: michael at michaelbutler.com
> Subject: Re: Hair #2
>
>
>  M:
>
> No, that's the thing -- sometimes it was so different, it made me laugh --
> there was real originality there, but it wasn't HAIR.  It was the piece
> formerly-known as-HAIR-aspiring-to-be-RENT -- But did you know "Oprah" is
> the Tourist Lady?  That "Hair" is sung to her cameras? -- That there is no
> nude scene is Act 1 (but rather a nice rip off of RENT's candlelight vigil
> in it's place?); however, there IS a nude scene after Woof's "Mickie Jag"
> speech?  [Incidentally, why does this generation have such lumpy bodies?
> And why do they insist upon taking it off when there's nothing -- or
rather
> , too  much -- to see?]  Oh, and Woof has a tattoo H.I.V.I.P across chest!
>
> "My Conviction" has been cut; "Dead End" has been cut.  "Sheila" is Asian
> and wonderful.  "Jeanie" has been rewritten so no one (except me, when I
> played her in Paris wearing flippers), could get a laugh!  -- She can
really
> sing, and she only miscarried twice!  "Hud" is a woman, and she should
have
> kept her clothes on!
>
> There is no war sequence.  "What A Piece of Work" is a duet for "Berger"
and
> "Claude" who seem to be at each other's throats for most of the piece, so
> it's weird.  Oh, they also get to banter "To be or not to be" back and
> forth.  I laughed when "Berger" went into "nymph"...but, it's a very "in"
> joke -- "Ham" tells "Ophelia", "nymph in thy orisons be all thy sins
> remembered."  -- I guess the BRits are more likely to get it -- but I was
> the only one laughing.
>
> I'll have to talk to you about this -- the rewrites are one thing, and the
> directing another.  The cast is more-than-willing -- but why?
>
> "White Boys" was sung by "Hud" about "Berger" and two others in bondage.
>
> We shoudl speak about this -- it has been more than an eye openeer -- and
> yes -- I got a program for Miss Nina's archives.
>
> (oi!)
>
> Nat
>
>
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