[Mb-hair] Not Woof on the Off-Broadway album

[Barbara Siomos]

Martin...

That is what makes this list so great the sharing and loving of the past parts of HAiR.... :-)

peace,
barbara

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Eayrs
Sent: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:17:23 -0800
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] Not Woof on the Off-Broadway album



That's really clear - thanks, Nina. I'm really impressed by your care 
and devotion to the cause. Guess that album was recorded in a studio, 
not from a show ?  Anyway, of all the lines on that album that's the 
one that most stuck in my head.

Funny thing - I had only ever heard the off Broadway album until a 
few years ago (bought it when I was living in Finland in the very 
early 70s) so for me it was the only Hair i knew :-). Then I caught 
the movie (when I was working in Italy) - later saw the show in 
Buenos Aires (I lived in Argentina for a while) - and eventually 
started to hear other versions. (One of my favourite versions of 
Flesh Failures - if you know it - was by an English singer called 
Julie Driscoll.

Funnily enough, two of the members of my theatre group at university 
were in the first London 'Hair' - one was Tim Curry, better known 
later through the Rocky Horror Show, and the other Judy Loe 
(probablky better known today as the mother of Kate Beckinsale). Me, 
I was an assistant stage manager, even went solo a few times which I 
loved, but decided to make a career elsewhere - having travelled all 
over the place for half my life now I teach at a university in 
Manchester, England, England. Two kids, one working in NY (whom I 
visit once in a while) and a son in Buenos Aires (ditto).

Better stop - it's a bit too much information. Excuse my indulgence - 
I like being on this list and wanted to share something.

Martin (in Lancaster, UK).



>The dialogue in the middle of Good Morning Starshine on the Off Broadway
>recording is a condensation of several slightly longer sections of dialogue
>in the middle of the song in the off Broadway script. It is Jill O'Hara
>(Sheila) who says the lines "Look at the Moon, look at the moon, look at the
>moon!" although that line does not appear in the script exactly like that.
>In the script there are several dialogue sections at the end of which Sheila
>sings "Look at the moom"  7 times before going back into "Good morning
>Starshine..." (the first verse again) rather than as on the recording, where
>she says the lines about the moon, and then sings "Singing a song..." etc.
>
>Nina
>
>The Hair Archives
>http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html
>
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