PLEASE tell me 'I Got Life' doesn't take place in a bathroom...

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:17pm

...because this video sure makes it look that way

[wickedfan]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:19pm

No and no. This was NYU's production that took place in an insane asylum.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:19pm

What the hell?!

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:20pm

Why the f*ck would you put Hair in an insane asylum?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[BwayBoundJoe]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:21pm

...um...ew?

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:34pm

I think it's cool.

[canmark]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:42pm

When I first saw that "I got life" I thought, Ew. But it's actually kinda intestesting. And that arrangement of "Age of Aquarius" is actually quite good.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:43pm

This looks like a poorly directed production with an interesting new concept, with a few moments that actually land.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:47pm

...Says the idiot who's seen all of two numbers.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:49pm

I've seen 6 of the videos, and I only liked 2. Read carefully, I said 'SEEMS', not 'IS'.

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:51pm

I hated that Aquarius video.

[scott68]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:51pm

Having actually seen the production, I can say that it struck me as a somewhat pretentious attempt at an update that effectively demonstrated that the show didn't need one, but it did have a few extremely resonant moments.

[AntonEgo]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 8:26pm

scott, I'd like to hear more about this production. How did all the songs fit into the idea of taking place in an insane asylum? Did it still take place in 1968?

[BobRandomGuyMan]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 8:54pm

It didn't specifically take place inside an insane asylum. There was some convoluted explanation of the set and why they were bald in the program, but insane asylum it wasn't. You must be getting this one confused with the production of South Pacific that Anne Bogart directed at NYU that took place in a veteran's hospital! (Which was way more successful than Hair, FYI.)

As far as the show goes, not a lot landed, but it looked cool and there were some great arrangements of the songs.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 9:05pm

This is heinous.

They've stripped away everything the show is about for the sake of being "edgy."

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 9:08pm

Yeah. Because the minimalist, monocolored, zombieish, edgy production of "Sweeney" that took place in an insane asylum was SUCH a disaster.

Nobody in this thread except for scott and Bob even SAW the show. You're judging by a couple of YouTube videos. STFU.

Updated On: 5/31/09 at 09:08 PM

[BobRandomGuyMan]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 9:10pm

Dude, I saw it. It was my senior year. And it was insane. Especially the part where everyone took communion off of Alex Brightman's naked body.

[scott68]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 10:47pm

Yeah, I'm not sure where the insane asylum thing came in. The conceit of the production was that in our times, a shaved head is more subversive than long hair, so the entire cast shaved their heads, male and female alike. The set and (if I remember correctly, although it was threeish years ago) the costumes were all white, with lots of colored light effects. The nudity was much more played up than in your average production, I believe in more than one scene.

All in all, I don't think the specific ideas or changes they enacted really added up to much more than doing the show a bit more... traditionally, if you can use that word to describe Hair, would have done. That said, I can still remember how powerfully the show ended, with the curtain closing right over the cast still extremely angrily singing.

[yay_gerb]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 12:09am

i hate the video of I Got Life but i love the Aquarius one. wish i could have seen this.

[MisterRussell]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 1:00pm

No, no, no ... the song that takes place in the bathroom is "I got the Hershey Squirts."

Posted: 6/1/09 at 2:19pm

"Yeah. Because the minimalist, monocolored, zombieish, edgy production of "Sweeney" that took place in an insane asylum was SUCH a disaster."

AMEN! I am glad to hear someone admit it finally. God.

[holdyourbatboy]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 3:07pm

Alex Brightman naked what?