HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019- Page 3
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019
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HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#50
Posted: 5/25/18 at 3:04pm
I'm excited for this! One of my all-time favorite musicals! I'm really not concerned about possible edits. Maybe they'll air it with a viewer discretion disclaimer. As for the nudity, I really don't care one way or the other, and of course they won't allow full frontal, but butts have been seen on network TV as far back as NYPD BLUE (1993-2005). They can make their point without the actors waving their junk in the audience's face.
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#51
Posted: 5/25/18 at 3:29pmDidn’t they leave the nudity in when they broadcast Schindler’s List? Also, going way back, breasts were shown during Roots. I don’t think nudity is prohibited by FCC regulations, but language is.
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HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#52
Posted: 5/25/18 at 3:39pm
Last night, I had the absolute joy of attending a concert with Audra McDonald and the San Diego Symphony. She talked about her experience with the TV version of "Sound of Music," and then mentioned that "Hair" would be the next TV production. Her comment: "How exciting!". That's what I think, as well.......how exciting!
Updated On: 5/25/18 at 03:39 PM
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#53
Posted: 5/25/18 at 5:13pm
I remember suggesting MAN OF LA MANCHA as a possible contender a few years ago. I got some negative feedback because of the show’s content. Now, if they don’t completely dilute and destroy HAIR, we’ll have SPRING AWAKENING soon...or at least MOLM. Ha ha...
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#54
Posted: 5/25/18 at 7:01pm
You just know they're going to do it concert style with big stars like the did for JCS. They're probably thrilled not to have to anything with multiple expensive sets for awhile.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#55
Posted: 5/25/18 at 7:39pm
I was also baffled when I heard the news. It can be done without the nudity, but they'd have to cut both "Sodomy" and "Colored Spade" methinks.
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HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#56
Posted: 5/25/18 at 7:50pm
Hest88 said: "I was also baffled when I heard the news. It can be done without the nudity, but they'd have to cut both "Sodomy" and "Colored Spade" methinks."
Those are the two numbers I keep mentioning getting cut while discussing this with friends.
I can't wait to see how those american's who have their heads inserted into Trump's rectum react to Abie Baby...
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#57
Posted: 5/25/18 at 7:54pm
Is NBC really ready to push the envelope and do it the way it should be staged?? I'm not so sure about this...however, Gavin Creel just has to be Claude again! I know he's had surgery but he was fantastic. Cassie Levy was Sheila, so who knows? They are not "Alice Cooper". I'll reserve judgement for now, (but I totally agree, they need to get Tina Landau)
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#58
Posted: 5/25/18 at 9:22pm
Sondheimite said: "Hest88 said: "I was also baffled when I heard the news. It can be done without the nudity, but they'd have to cut both "Sodomy" and "Colored Spade" methinks."
Those are the two numbers I keep mentioning getting cut while discussing this with friends.
I can't wait to see how those american's who have their heads inserted into Trump's rectum react to Abie Baby..."
Why do you think anyone who supports Trump would watch this in the first place? They would already know it's about hippies, which means they're going to refuse to watch it, period. Or if they somehow didn't know what it was about from its prior existence or the commercials, as soon as the first hippie shows up on stage they'd just go "Ew, Liberal Propaganda" and change the channel. You're not going to see any of those reactions period because they have literally no reason to want to even try it.
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#59
Posted: 5/26/18 at 3:51am
You just know they're going to do it concert style with big stars like the did for JCS. They're probably thrilled not to have to anything with multiple expensive sets for awhile.
This was my first thought, too. I bet they picked this specifically because it lends itself to a concert style staging
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#60
Posted: 5/26/18 at 10:55am
Steve C. said: "Is NBC really ready to push the envelope and do it the way it should be staged?? I'm not so sure about this...however, Gavin Creel just has to be Claude again! I know he's had surgery but he was fantastic. Cassie Levy was Sheila, so who knows? They are not "Alice Cooper". I'll reserve judgement for now, (but I totally agree, they need to get Tina Landau)"
The cut off age for the draft at the time was either 25 or 26. Let's not have actors in their 40s, being broadcast in high definition, acting worried about potentially being drafted.
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#61
Posted: 5/26/18 at 10:56am
Nice to see myself quoted in this thread. Annoying Actor Friend has the definitive take on this thus far:
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HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#62
Posted: 5/26/18 at 11:00am
Having said that, I am available to provide consultation from original cast members if they really plan to do this right. They should be talking to them rather than Jim Rado, in my admittedly biased opinion.
Jim, God bless him, consults on new revivals and adds a ton of stuff, both new and from pre-Broadway material, that he has yet to codify into a further revised script for the licensor (the current version dates from 1995; Tams-Witmark confirmed to me that any new changes only appear in productions if Rado works with them directly, and they have not received nor are they able to pass on any of the new material), but every time it gets farther away from what made the show work.
(Some of the Tribe, as they call themselves, have speculated that, being 85, he still tinkers with the show so much because he's gradually forgetting that he wrote it in the first place.)
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HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#65
Posted: 5/26/18 at 12:15pm
I'm looking forward to hearing the song about sodomy on national Tv. LOL.
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#66
Posted: 5/26/18 at 2:22pm
Given that sodomy is the technical term, is there a reason that word can't be said on network TV? In fact, I think every "bad" word in that song is the technical term. I don't see why that song would have to be cut.
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HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#67
Posted: 5/26/18 at 5:07pm
Well let's try the PC police on this one-
"I'm a
Colored spade
A nigga
A black nigga
A jungle bunny
Jigaboo coon
Pickaninny mau mau
Uncle Tom
Aunt Jemima
Little Black Sambo
Cotton pickin'
Swamp guinea
Junk man
Shoeshine boy
Elevator operator
Table cleaner at Horn & Hardart
Slave voodoo
Zombie
Ubangi lipped"
And i've left out the White House part of the lyric.
(to be fair- Horn & Hardart is a reference that no one will get)
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#68
Posted: 5/26/18 at 7:10pm
Hi folks, a lot of you addressed my comment about AIDA and I wanted to clarify that I completely blanked that ABC is Disney's network. So sorry! Don't want anybody thinking I'm an idiot.
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#69
Posted: 5/26/18 at 7:30pm
I kind of get the choice, actually. I mean, yeah, it’s going to be Bowdlerized, but it’s a great opportunity to cast huge pop stars of the moment to do one song and pull in ratings (I’m not really familiar with the show, I just know what’s described here, it’s reputaion, and the Actor’s Fund Concert from a decade ago).
Btw, while I’m at it, I’ll put a bet in for Demi Lovato singing Hippie Life, if it’s included.
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#70
Posted: 5/26/18 at 7:40pm
Actually some of us here on the board ARE old enough to remember Horn and Hardart diners around Times Square. Yeah, they were known in even earlier times as the brand name of some Automats around town, but by the late 60's I knew them as greasy spoon diners, along with Chock Full of Nuts diners.
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HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#71
Posted: 5/27/18 at 12:07am
"the Actor’s Fund Concert from a decade ago"
I bet it was in influence cause guess who is on board:
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SO happy @nbc is doing HAIR as their next live musical! Here's a deconstruction from the (Grammy nominated!) CD of my Actors Fund concert! Listen to these three amazing singers: @BrandiMassey @ledisi and @shaynasteele THEY ARE INCREDIBLE!
Shame!
HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#72
Posted: 5/27/18 at 12:37am
I wouldn't say hopping on the bandwagon to promote an old "deconstruction" of his necessarily constitutes Seth being on board.
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HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019#74
Posted: 5/27/18 at 2:35pm
I did, but that doesn't mean he's part of the show.
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