To Bare on Not to Bare (NBC's Hair Live Issue)- Page 2

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/30/19 at 1:45pm

I also wouldn’t mind if they just bleeped the curse words and released the uncensored version on DVD later. I was wishing Fox had done that while watching Rent instead of having to listen to those cheesey revised lyrics.

[ggersten]

Posted: 1/30/19 at 2:23pm

JudyDenmark said: "I couldn't care less if they cut the nudity or not... as others have said, it's not necessary to the show.

I'm a lot more worried about all of the inevitable language changes. Like, are they going to do "Sodomy" at all? "Colored Spade"?If I was a network censor, I'd be worried about a solid quarterof the show. As a big Hair fan... I'm cautiously optimistic. Maybe naively."

Also on the chopping/bowdlerized list:  Black Boys/White Boys; 3-5-0-0;  interjections in "Ain't Got No" and "I Got Life" won't have tits.  Also, "Give me head with hair" will change to "Give me a head with hair".  And how old will Donna be?  Still 16?

Updated On: 1/30/19 at 02:23 PM

[MannPhan24601]

Posted: 1/30/19 at 2:30pm

I keep wondering about the cast for this...

[bk]

Posted: 1/30/19 at 2:39pm

I find it fascinating, all the people who are obsessed with the nude scene of this show.  It will make no difference to the piece itself if it isn't done, and even within this thread you can see people talking about an actor who they saw nude at the Bowl and how they still remember what said actor looked like nude.  Sorry, Hair has and will survive without a nude scene that literally lasts a few seconds.  And perhaps the actors who might take part in such a scene understand that unlike the stage, these broadcasts can be DVRd, and then screen shots can make their way to the Internet.  And why would they do an uncensored version for home video?  So people can freeze frame and check it out?  On stage in dim light as originally done, is one thing.  On TV or home video it becomes something else.

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

Posted: 1/30/19 at 3:39pm

ggersten said: "Also, "Give me head with hair" will change to "Give me a head with hair". "

No it won't, because that's what the line always was, poor diction notwithstanding... more than that, "give me a head with hair" is the only line that makes sense in the context of the song. Nothing else about it is sexual.

Also, I'm surprised everybody missed "Sodomy" in their ripe-for-censorship lists.

Updated On: 1/30/19 at 03:39 PM

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/30/19 at 4:41pm

I can see a fair amount of "Sodomy" going unchallenged, but someone's gonna pick out "pederasty," since the attitude on pederasty in gay culture has changed MUCH more drastically than attitudes to anything else in the show.

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/30/19 at 5:17pm

bk said: "perhaps the actors who might take part in such a scene understand that unlike the stage, these broadcasts can be DVRd, and then screen shots can make their way to the Internet."

Bootlegs of the staged versions make their way online, too.

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 1/30/19 at 5:37pm

Actors do nude scenes in movies all the time knowing we live in an age where somebody can digitally freeze the image on a dvd. Hasn’t stopped many of the major stars in hollywood from showing some skin.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 1/30/19 at 7:30pm

QueenAlice said: "Actors do nude scenes in movies all the time knowing we live in an age where somebody can digitally freeze the image on a dvd. Hasn’t stopped many of the major stars in hollywood from showing some skin. "

All sorts of things can can be done in film can't be done on stage  it’s hard to cut to a body double on stage.  

 

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/30/19 at 7:37pm

JSquared2 said: "All sorts of things can can be done in film can't be done on stage it’s hard to cut to a body double on stage. "

It is? Lots of shows do it just fine... there's a brilliant use of a body double right now in...

 

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