[Mb-hair] Gate HAIR report

[richard haase]

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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