[Mb-hair] Gate HAIR report

Sun Sep 25 12:56:02 PDT 2005

but again that is not the problem
nor have i suggested changing the hair script
and what you did factually is a national company
with different contingencies
what im saying is absolutely valid
and i wonder how the frankel company is going to succeed
and please understand for me
hair is perfect the way it is
but what youre missing is in the tams witmark book
are places where improvisation etc are indicated
i am simply talking about making more contemporary references in the places
indicated by the authors
i love the 60s
it is the formation of my conscious
60s/hair is why i have long hair
but to the average american particularly 30 - 35 and under
vietnam is as distant as ancient egypt
and unfortunately most americans have a distaste for history etc
if you look at what just happend in nyc
with two gentlemen of verona
they tore into it for being of its time period
and they attributed a lot of negative things to the time period
unjustly
again im talking about a producing problem; not an artistic one per se
and the factors that constitute the problem
have nothing to do with my personal opinion or tastes
i we are not indicative of the majority of americans
we are free thinkers artists etc

pull up the times review
see what they did to two gents
another magnificent show
im just trying to help sherwin
as someone who loves the show
who saw and remembers the original production vividly
my intentions are coming from the best place

and i dont debate the response you saw got etc
but there are second class ( not a statement relating to quality but to the
structure of the rights ) national companies
second class local companies
the dynamics of a first class company are different
and as someone who loves the show
i want to see the next first class company succeed
thats all
( again remember they slaughtered the 77 broadway revival and it was a
wonderful wonderful company )
( they did so most undeservedly i thought )


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherwin Ross" <sherwin at aceross.com>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Mb-hair] Gate HAIR report


> 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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