HAIR LIVE! To Air On NBC Spring 2019 — Page 5

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "For what I hope is the last time, but probably won't be...

Hairis, always has been, and always will be "a structured Broadway musical." Ithas, always has had, and always will have a book.

Period. End of report.

It is not a "non-" or "un-book," as popular as it was to throw that term around in its heyday. It is no more a collection of loosely connected vignettes than Company. People just don't understand the structure, and I'm sorry that they don't, but you would think, especially after Paulus' revival (which, at least to me, proved that the problem is not that the plot doesn't exist, but that it needs to be brought to the fore instead of buried in fluid-abstract staging), that someone would finally have gotten at least a hint. Just goes to show that if wishes were fishes, the ocean would be full.

I totally agree with this assessment. I don't understand why people claim that "HAiR" doesn't have a book.

Easy. Because we've all seen productions that went on and on, aimlessly, without a sense of progression towards an inevitable and surprising end.

There's a book, certainly a structure, but it takes good direction to give it tension. Simply put, it doesn't have a strong book, that is one you can trust to do much heavy lifting.

BJR said: "Easy. Because we've all seen productions that went on and on, aimlessly, without a sense of progression towards an inevitableand surprising end.

There's a book, certainly a structure, but it takes good direction to give it tension. Simply put, it doesn't have a strong book, that is one you can trust to do much heavylifting."

Then you've seen ****ty productions. At a certain level of presentation, they're pretty much the rule, not the exception, especially if the director hasn't lived through the Sixties.

I like the hair in the artwork- appropriately enough- but the face is really... odd. It looks out of place.

It looks like a psychedelic advertisement for toothpaste. Ugh.