[Mb-hair] !!!!!!!ARGH

[Barbara Siomos]

My two cents....

The idea of Katie going to Community centers or even Black Churches that have choirs (some of their voices tear it up), or even high schools or (IF any around) Colleges. When putting up notices be truthful and explain the situation so perhaps they (black folks) will have a better understanding of why it is so greatly needed to get the points across in the show, which in my impression it is. I for one (I am white) would be bothered by a mask or black face (sorry Michael)... :-)) 

In your notices explain briefly so as not to lose their interest. Katie where do you live? Is it North Carolina?

peace,
barbara

-----Original Message-----
From: Little Birdie
Sent: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:30:17 -0700
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] !!!!!!!ARGH

Katie wrote:
>THank you Nina, and Richard, and Leo, and Michael.

Richard and Leo - if you sent advice to Katie privately off list I encourage 
you to share it with us here, so that we can hear your thoughts on this, and 
work on putting all our thoughts on this into a document.

Since the Jabberwocky Hair List archives disappeared (and yesterday when I 
checked even the cached versions had been removed from Google, although I 
can't imagine how David Shaw accomplished that, nor why he would want to) I 
have a great desire to recreate that database of thought on Hair.

Someone recently posted that they were upset at off topic posts to the list, 
but I find it difficult to get upset with off topic posts when it proves so 
difficult to get on topic discussions going. Sherwin recently posted a 
question about the symbolism of the Hair logo, an interesting question I 
thought, but we got only a handful of responses. Thanks to those who did 
respond. This current topic of doing Hair with a limited racial mix is one I 
know people here have dealt with but it is not being responded to. Michael 
and I have often wondered how to get more Hair related discussions going on 
the list, how to make this a real resource for people doing current 
productions, but the answer evades us. Maybe we need another Randy Bowser or 
Scott Miller, who read through the script and posted long lists of specific 
questions to us, which we answered (Ross T? Katie?). Or maybe, as a friend 
suggested to me, Hair is "all talked out". But I hope not. One of the joys 
of Hair, to me, is the passing of the flame to others, to support them in 
finding their own version of Hair. The collective knowledge of the people 
here is astounding. Let's share it!

Love,
Nina

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