HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019- Page 3

[Luscious]

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. 

[jbird5]

Posted: 5/25/18 at 3:29pm

Didn’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.

[Cat Guy]

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

[MichelleCraig]

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...

[everythingtaboo]

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. 

[Hest88]

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.

[Sondheimite]

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... 

[Steve C.]

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)

[Oak2]

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.

Updated On: 5/25/18 at 09:22 PM

[NOWaWarning]

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

 

[AEA AGMA SM]

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.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

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:

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

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.)

Updated On: 5/26/18 at 11:00 AM

[ggersten]

Posted: 5/26/18 at 11:14am

 

[sabrelady]

Posted: 5/26/18 at 12:12pm

LOL.

Yup that about sums it up!

[RicardoMagon]

Posted: 5/26/18 at 12:15pm

I'm looking forward to hearing the song about sodomy on national Tv. LOL.

[CATSNYrevival]

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.

[sabrelady]

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)
 

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

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.

[XWW]

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.

[Someone in a Tree2]

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.

[sabrelady]

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:

 

Seth Rudetsky‏Verified account @SethRudetsky

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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!

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

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.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 5/27/18 at 11:23am

Didja read the "SO happy" part?

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 5/27/18 at 2:35pm

I did, but that doesn't mean he's part of the show.