[Mb-hair] Good press

richard haase hotprojects at nyc.rr.com
Fri Sep 23 17:01:08 PDT 2005


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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