[Mb-hair] Good press

Fri Sep 23 16:52:01 PDT 2005

I think Shakespeare would be faulted for trying to change HAIR

> 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" <cpreston2 at tds.net>
> To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
> 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 McNamara" <olhippie at tampabay.rr.com>
>> To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
>> 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" <katiekasben at hotmail.com>
>>> To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
>>> 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
>>>> speeches.  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 it 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 country'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 back 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 and  "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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