[Mb-hair] Re: HAIR'S "moon oysters"

[Little Birdie]

Yes, that is exactly how it appears in the Broadway script, and it's still 
there in the 1995 revisions. It is gone from the 2001 revisions and has been 
replaced with a short dialogue sequence between Berger, Sheila and Woof that 
makes it clear that Claude has been missing. It seems to me that someone 
asked Jim about this a while ago (maybe around the time of the original 
discussion. Maybe John Michael Cox?) but that he couldn't help...but perhaps 
I am remembering this wrongly?

Nina

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>From: "Leo" <peacefreak at metrocast.net>
>Reply-To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
>Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: HAIR'S "moon oysters"
>Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:51:26 -0500
>
>Joe, first of all, great to hear from you again brother. I believe I 
>brought
>up the whole moon oyster scene waaaaaaaaaaay back when. Specifically in the
>script it comes right after ELECTRIC BLUES  and immediately before OH GREAT
>GOD OF POWER and it's written in the stage directions as follows. "The 
>TRIBE
>comes from the rear of the house, singing the following lyrics in a soft,
>musical chant. THEY carry candles, wind chimes, moon oysters, and incense
>sticks.............................................." I thought perhaps 
>they
>were like castinettes (sp?) but never got a firm answer even from old 
>freaks
>I had contacted. But you're right bro, I remember you went off on some
>creative, tangent that was amazing.
>
>PEACE,
>Leo
>
>  Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:22:20 -0500
> > From: "Sibley Smith" <sjsmith at njvvmf.org>
> > Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR's "moon oysters"
> >
> > Yo, fellow HAIR-heads,
> >
> > Many moon ago (like around September of 1999), there was discussion on 
>the
>Jabberwocky HAIR List regarding a reference to "moon oysters" in HAIR's
>script.
> >
> > Well, I must've chimed in with something (no doubt, stuff off the cuff),
>because back in September of THIS year, 2004, a college student involved in
>a production of HAIR, sent me a query about the topic.  Unfortunately, I'd
>started on my walkabout at about that time, so I never noticed her e-mail
>until earlier this week (late December 2004).
>...................................... Please remind me (those of you in 
>the
>know), what is the precise context of the mentioning of "moon oysters" in
>HAIR?
> >............................So, if you've got the script, will you please
>transcribe for me that portion where "moon oysters" are mentioned, so I 
>(we)
>can consider the context?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > "Look at the Moon!  Look at the Moon!"
> >
> > --Tioga
> >
>
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