Frank Mills from HAIR

[Elphaba43]

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:28pm

My friend and I are having a discussion about this now.......what is this song really about? Is there some hidden meaning to it?

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:30pm

I think just a girl missing a random man.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:34pm

I don't know, but the first time I heard the song and heard the line "tell him Angela and I don't want to the two dollars back, just him" I laughed out loud.

[thetheatrekook]

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:37pm

isn't it based on a real ad in a paper?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:39pm

I don't know.

[singalongsong2]

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:42pm

I think the song is about a guy named Frank Mills. :) Crissie randomly met him, liked him, and wants to see him again. However, she has no way of contacting him, so she is hoping that she will bump into him again.

isn't it based on a real ad in a paper?

I posted this in the Hair thread yesterday. I think it's really interesting. If you click on the link, you will see a page from a 1966 copy of Rave magazine. If you read the entire "Boys and Girls Lost and Found" section, you will see that it is the source material for the song, "Frank Mills." Pretty neat.

http://www.newlinetheatre.com/frankmills.pdf


Updated On: 2/15/10 at 11:42 PM

[Elphaba43]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 12:55am

I really can't see the link you posted singalongsong2....do you think you could please send it to my email? [e-mail]

Thank you so much I appreciate it!

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 1:37am

hahaa, that's so cool! and even cooler the first thing I saw was the question about "what pop star shares my birthday, April 2nd?"....that's my birthday :) haha.

[Baylink]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 9:09am

Yeah; I don't know who found that, but it's directly on target.

I've seen 4 performances of HAiR now, last August's B'way, USF Tampa, a community theater company in Crystal River, FL *with no black actors* (I invite you to imagine how the hell you stage that show with an all-white cast , and a run back in 07 directed by Florida acting teacher Corinne Broskette, who was in the '68 LA and Mexico casts. Honestly, I think I liked hers best, though it's difficult to be objective, since it was my first.



American Stage is doing it In The Park, this spring at Demens Landing; it will be interesting to see how *that* plays in Peoria.

[Patash]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 10:06am

I think I mentioned before that my one objection to the current production is that it is simply "too big" and "overproduced". I've seen some splendid very simple small productions that I liked better. The number Frank Mills is one example. I love it when the girl singing i just sits in a simple spotlight and sings that delightfully simple little story about her "love" and in a clear but simple, honest voice. In the current production, the number gets "staged". She's all over the stage and sings in a real character voice making her much more of a ditz or something weird. It just seemed they were trying to hard to make something of one of the simplest and most "honest" numbers in the show. My belief is that Hair should be about this simple but HONEST group of people from the 60's. I kept feeling they were being made fun of and pointed out as being very hypocritical and sort of shallow and sometimes even mean spirited rather than simply shown as the true-intentioned people (Love Children) they were. Maybe you had to live then and know real Hippies to understand what I'm saying.

[Baylink]

Posted: 2/16/10 at 10:12am

I was only born in 65, but I'd say you've nailed it.

The St Pete performance gave that song to the singer in the cast whose natural singing voice was the least "produced" of any of them, and it gained for the selection; I assume that's generally a casting note for the show, though I've never seen the package.

My production photography from that show, incidentally, is in the link if anyone's interested.

HAiR 2007 by MAD Theatre of Tampa Updated On: 2/16/10 at 10:12 AM