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

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 7/25/18 at 11:46am

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. 

[SNAFU]

Posted: 7/25/18 at 4:10pm

I saw Hair 26 times in the recent revival. It has a very strong book! I also found it strangely Patriotic in an unpatriotic protest about an illegal war. I lived during that era and on more then one occasion say the black Continentals pulling up to people's homes on my paper route with Military Officers delivering the sad news to families.

 To this day I cannot listen to Flesh Failures/ Let the Sun Shine In, without bursting into tears.

 

[BJR]

Posted: 7/25/18 at 9:37pm

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.

[Sondheimite]

Posted: 7/25/18 at 9:40pm

It doesn't get better than this for me.  I want an O'Horgan.  

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

Posted: 7/25/18 at 10:08pm

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.

[kelsey1389]

Posted: 11/20/18 at 9:32am

Sorry to bump, but here's the first artwork released for this!

 

https://twitter.com/broadwaycom/status/1064644886262149121

I have to say I'm not a huge fan, personally I think it's too digital looking, kinda looks like they just took a stock photo and colored it in.

 

 

Updated On: 11/20/18 at 09:32 AM

[Kad]

Posted: 11/20/18 at 9:56am

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

[natashalost]

Posted: 11/20/18 at 11:39am

Any rumors as far as casting goes? Or have they not even begin casting yet?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/20/18 at 12:48pm

It looks like a psychedelic advertisement for toothpaste. Ugh.