[Mb-hair] Re: La MaMa

[Leo]

Sounds like a highly successful evening Michael with lotsa love and lotsa 
very talented people. Wish I could have been there! Thanks for the report!

PEACE,
Leo

> From: Michael Butler <michael at michaelbutler.com>
> Subject: [Mb-hair] La MaMa

> Well, it was a super experience.
> When Chris Kapp asked me to do this I had to accept. Anything for Ellen
> Stewart is a 'command performance'. I did begin to freak out when I 
> realized
> that it would be 2 hours of me alone dealing with theatre subjects.
> I then suggested to ask Tom, Jim and Galt. When that was Ok'd I put forth
> several names of tribe members I knew of in NYC. Further, upon going to 
> see
> HAIR in Bridgeport I leaned on Nina and her Archive Gang of Annie, Trevor,
> Bill and Rob. Debbie and Michael joined them. Natalie, Robert I and 
> Richard
> H decided to come. They began to speak to others. Organic growth was
> happening.
> Tom and Mark with new dog Ori arrived. Jim showed up. We missed Galt who 
> was
> Staten Island bound.
> Ellen was not well and could not come downstairs for the interview. Chris
> found Sally Kirkland who has great history with Tom, LaMaMa and HAIR to
> start us off. She did a great job, many anecdotes and many laughs. A real
> warm up act. Jim made some good observations and comments. He was
> particularly good in the Q&A. I talked of my social political reasons for
> getting into HAIR. The star of the evening was Tom who really taught us 
> much
> in his comments about theatre of the period.
> Jim and Bill polished off the singing when everyone followed Marjorie and
> joined in.
> Final cap was when Jim, Tom and I went upstairs to see that lovely lady,
> LaMaMa.
>