[Mb-hair] Good press

Fri Sep 23 17:40:46 PDT 2005

You are entitled to your opinion.
Where did you get your list pf traditionalists?
That is not an opinion. it is a statement

> 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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