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0113.09 Hair Fb Postings Hi Tribe. What's your Tribe's Name? Every Tribe ever has named themselves! Great opening night. You mean what you are doing and it means a lot to those who come to see you. Your lives will be changed by this tour, so have a blast! (BTW your cast is the best of the 3 B-way stagings I've enjoyed - Less Belting and wonderful harmonizing - much more satisfying thant the over amplified shows that preceded you, plus the meaningfulness of the text is much more apparent in your show than before) Check out Rado on Smothers Brothers show w/ LA Cast in 1968! - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I did a college production of HAIR in 1977 at Northwestern (http:// www.facebook.com/album.php?id=1117459016&aid=2065972), and then took to the road in the Summer/Fall of 1978 selling computer portraits ("Put your face on a T-shirt!") in state and county fairs. It was while living in a motorhome that summer I read "On the Road" for the first time. Connecting the dots between Neal Cassady / Jack Kerouac / Alan Ginsberg / the Beat Generation / the Merry Pranksters / Counterculture of the 1960's / Summer of Love / Hippies / Yippies / Antiwar movement, etc. has been a lifelong avocation and intellectual pursuit ever since. I hope you will enjoy some of these links and will ultimately write a book about how YOUR consciousness was raised by embracing HAIR, the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical! Robert Mendel IMDB http://mendel.locations.org NEAL CASSADY AND ALAN GINSBERG http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143944/bio - Biography for Neal Cassady http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Cassady - Neal Cassady http://www.beatbookcovers.com/cassady/ - NEAL CASSADY BOOK COVERS (check out "As Ever" - collected letters between Cassady and Ginsberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_(musical) -- The theme of opposition to the war that pervades the show is unified by the plot thread that progresses through the book – Claude's moral dilemma over whether to burn his draft card.[51] Pacifism is explored throughout the extended trip sequence in Act 2. The lyrics to "Three-Five-Zero-Zero", which is sung during that sequence, evoke the horrors of war ("ripped open by metal explosion").[64] The song is based on Allen Ginsberg's 1966 poem, "Wichita Vortex Sutra". In the poem, General Maxwell Taylor proudly reports to the press the number of enemy soldiers killed in one month, repeating it digit by digit, for effect: "Three-Five-Zero-Zero." The song begins with images of death and dying and turns into a manic dance number, echoing Maxwell's glee at reporting the enemy casualties, as the tribe chants "Take weapons up and begin to kill".[51] The song also includes the repeated phrase "Prisoners in niggertown/ It's a dirty little war".[53] (Lifts from the poem: "Napalm and black clouds emerging in newsprint Flesh soft as a Kansas girl’s ripped open by metal explosion— three five zero zero on the other side of the planet caught in barbed wire, fire ball bullet shock, bayonet electricity bomb blast terrific in skull & belly, shrapneled throbbing meat" [last stanza:] "The war is over now— Except for the souls held prisoner in Niggertown still pining for love of your tender white bodies O children of Wichita! February 14, 1966") http://www.shmoop.com/howl/ - The controversy surrounding Howl launched the Beat movement into the public consciousness, and it was a major inspiration for the 1960s sub-culture. Along with Jack Kerouac's On the Road, it is the most famous literary work to come out of this movement. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5419033 - Revisiting Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' at 50 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4950578&ps=rs - Birth of the Beat Generation: 50 Years of 'Howl' http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5353273&ps=rs - Essay Collection Honors 'Howl' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation - Beat Generation http://mendel.locations.org/ 0511.26%20Neal%20Cassady%20from%20Intrepidtrips.com.html -- NEAL CASSADY from http://intrepidtrips.com http://www.nealcassadyestate.com/neal.html - Neal Cassady Estate website http://www.beatbookcovers.com/cassady/Kesey_Superman_Esquire_1979_text.jpg http://www.beatbookcovers.com/cassady/Kesey_Superman_Esquire_1979_text2.jpg -- "The Day After Superman Died" by Ken Kesey (semi-fictionalized account of the death of Cassady which I think is evoked by Berger's 'faint' after "I'm going to stay high forever" in Act 2. I think it's interesting if you read the intro to this piece that Nick Nolte played Cassady twice in the movies, "although Nolte probably didn't know he was doing it the first time." I delight in watching Berger lay down in the arms of his tribe while assuming that the actors playing him don't know that they are portraying a Cassady-like figure in Berger, and especially in this moment. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- IMPORTANT BRAND NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT KEN KESEY & THE MAGIC CROSS-COUNTRY TRIP W/ THE BUS CALLED "FURTHER", THE MERRY PRANKSTERS, AND WITH NEAL CASSADY AT THE WHEEL IN 1964 WHICH OFFICIALLY GAVE BIRTH TO THE SIXTIES!!!!!! About "Magic Trip" the movie: http://mendel.locations.org/031211-hair-be-in-youtube-video-master-guide/ browse/magictrip Web Site with Trailer: http://www.magictripmovie.com/ Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood’s MAGIC TRIP is a freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16MM, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. With MAGIC TRIP, Gibney and Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the Kesey family. They worked with the Film Foundation, HISTORY and the UCLA Film Archives to restore over 100 hours of film and audiotape, and have shaped an invaluable document of this extraordinary piece of American history. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- HEY! HERE IS AN ARCHIVE OF MY HAIR BROADWAY FACEBOOK POSTINGS (I aggregate them here to memorialize for myself this wonderful chapter in my own HAIR legacy and am grateful to share with you my unabashed emotionality and ecstatic enjoyment of your performances on both stages - HAIR & the Be-Ins!) : Taking my 85 year old Mom to HAIR in Tampa on Saturday! (She took me to HAIR in Indiana when I was 12, so am returning the favor!) We had to walk past protesters to see the show in 1971 ....... Check out this article from VARIETY back then: "Hair Ruffles Officials In Ind'p'ls; SOuth Bend Nix, Evansville Maybe" http://www.orlok.com/hair/holding/articles/HairArticles/Variety6-24-70.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Is this the real Frank Mills? (fan mag circa 1965) http://mendel.locations.org/031211-hair-be-in-youtube-video-masterguide: files/143612 HAIR TOUR CAST BE-INs Youtube Video MASTER GUIDE: http://mendel.locations.org/031211-hair-be-inyoutube- video-master-guide --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- HAIR Be-Ins are the bomb! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVZsxUJvxo HAIR BE-IN LOS ANGELES PT 1 - America & What's Goin' On - Nkrumah Gatling & Jake Langley On Jan. 10, 2011, the Official Hair Broadway Tour Cast played an intimate concert to benefit Broadway Impact in Los Angeles at Barre Vermont. Special Thanks to Musicians: Guitar - Jake Langley; Bass - Frank Canino; Drums - Wayne Dunton; Perussion- Sean Ritenauer http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/13687/theater-feature-casts-of-hairmillion- dollar-quartet-benefit-marriage-equality http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=1117459016&aid=2078491 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Dig your HAIR cast Be-In Los Angeles: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=LyJ3af3KBRo and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVZsxUJvxo "BE IN" Los Angeles - A Little Help from my Friends/ Let The Sunshine IN 1/10/11 The touring cast of HAIR did a benefit for Broadway Impact. This is the final 2 songs of the night. This was in Hollywood's Show at the Barre Videography by: Mitch Friedman/mitchophoto.com This is almost where it all began - this production, anyway! In Central Park, 'Hair' Line Brings A City Closer : NPR Free summer staging of the '60s musical has New Yorkers camping out overnight — but a sense of shared adventure (and bike messengers bearing delivery breakfasts) help pass the time. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93994249 I was in NYC then by accident and saw it several times -- one night it was shortened by rain -- the most magical experience ever! We sang 'Let the Sunshine In' in the rain until the band and cast erupted onstage in the downpour to join us! (Shared this story w/ Kacie on Hollywood Blvd after seeing the show at the Pantages and she mentioned "singing in the rain at the Delacorte" at the Be-In the next night) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- The first anti- War march to turn violent happened in L.A.! Sheila alludes to violent protests in Washington D.C., but those were largely peaceful (the D.C. cops just watched). But in LA, the s**t hit the fan. Irv Sarnoff organized this march, and I was proud to bring him to HAIR in L.A. at the Pantages! http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2009/05/crowd-battles-lapdas- war-protest-turns-violent-.html Crowd Battles LAPD as War Protest Turns Violent | The Daily Mirror | Los Angeles Times June 23, 1967: Antiwar protesters march toward the Century Plaza Hotel COLUMN ONE The Bloody March That Shook L.A.
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