NBC’s HAIR LIVE pulled from schedule — Page 2

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "The hard truth is nobody wants live musicals. Period. Theres always complaining. There is always something to bitch about. The musical isnt right. This actor is terrible. The camera work is wrong. Blah blah blah. RENT Live and its ratings are proof: No likes them or wants them. And NBC is getting the message."

Not true. People are going to complain no matter what. Same with film musicals. Just because some people didn't like Mary Poppins Returns doesn't mean they should stop making movie musicals. I welcome these musicals with open arms, and I hope they never stop producing them. Also, as someone else pointed out, The Sound of Music, The Wiz, and Jesus Christ Superstar were all excellent. Going to throw Grease in there as well. I enjoyed Hairspray Live too!

I think appreciation for these had gradually been taken over by live-tweeting to see who can come up with the best snark. I never expected Hair to actually happen, and after the reaction to Rent, I just knew this was dead in the water.

I'm very relieved. A show that I care so much about it would have been gutted beyond belief to comply w Standards and Practices.

Keep wondering who the cast was going to be.

Exactly- they should have been announcing casting and it's my belief they could not attract any "names" and after the sorry mess that was RENT- I think they never were.

Just saw a live production w a mostly age appropriate cast and there were substantial changes made ( at least to me- Ain't Got No suddenly had a thousand call and response lyrics, the nude scene was just the cast stripping off ON STAGE while Claude sang Where DO I GO?, The Bed was gone - I'd say good except it unconsciously illustrated the idea that Free Love -was still for the mens among other things)

But it it revived my goldenmemories of the sit down we had in TO- that I saw three times as a teen and I think I'm going to thank heaven for small mercies that it didn't become dross.

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "The hard truth is nobody wants live musicals. Period. Theres always complaining. There is always something to bitch about. The musical isnt right. This actor is terrible. The camera work is wrong. Blah blah blah. RENT Live and its ratings are proof: No likes them or wants them. And NBC is getting the message."

Umm, that's not my truth, so please don't speak for me with saying "nobody wants live musicals . Period". I want GOOD live TV musicals- hairspray, The wiz, Grease were all great for the most part.

That's what the nude scene has been in every production of Hair that I've seen, including Broadway. What's wrong with that?

Updated On: 2/5/19 at 02:23 AM

After Eight said: ""NBC is no longer moving forward with its planned live version of the musical Hair."



Good.

Just what we didn't need: a glorification of that fetid entity known asthe counter-culture."

lol Ancient troll has been waiting since the sixties to make this statement.

Miles2Go2 said: "Wonder if the was reaction to the poor reception to Fox’s Rent."

You'll never convince me it WASN'T because of this. The PR answer is never the real, behind-the-scenes answer. Hair was always a borderline bad choice for a live broadcast anyway, but then Rent happened. I personally don't mind these not being quite family fare, but for live broadcasts, I know that's what it's going to have to be to keep them afloat. I feel like Rent COULD have worked, but from what I saw (admittedly it wasn't a lot because I couldn't sit through it after a while), it wasn't thought through well. But it's still not family fare. Plus, am I the only one who thought it was super ironic that it was Fox of all networks to do Rent?? But I digress. Thus far, the only TRULY good one on most counts has been Superstar. The rest have ranged from serviceable to terrible for various reasons.

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "The hard truth is nobody wants live musicals. Period. Theres always complaining. There is always something to bitch about. The musical isnt right. This actor is terrible. The camera work is wrong. Blah blah blah. RENT Live and its ratings are proof: No likes them or wants them. And NBC is getting the message."

JC SUPERSTAR was a ratings, critical, and award circuit hit. So, no.

As the release said, NBC got cold feet with a young adult musical that families would not feel comfortable watching together - yes, especially after RENT did so poorly with the same target demo.

I'm curious about the language "we're in the process of acquiring the rights to a couple of new shows that we're really excited about."

Does this mean "new" as in different from HAIR, or "new" as in written recently?

BrodyFosse123 said: "Maybe HBO could pull it off, since they wouldn't have to censor it as much as NBC.

HBO wouldn’t have to censor it as much? Seriously? HBO wouldn’t have to censor anything. HBO shows full frontal nudity, profanity, ejaculationand everything else you can think of."

"It's not porn. It's HBO"