[Mb-hair] Gate HAIR report

[Robin McNamara]

Sherwin I tend to agree with you brother the message of the ignorance & 
maddness for war is always contemporary until it isn't anymore. There are 
some minute places where youi can take "liberty" i.e. "Initials" just for 
laughs, but  it is a period piece that that should not be tampered with .If 
you think about it, it really doesn't matter war is savage & peace is good , 
'one' of the messages of Hair.

Love forever
Robin




----- 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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