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I hope everybody who had a holiday weekend had a good one. I had a very fun week. I wasn't doing anything special, but I saw a lot of people that I don't always see and it involved a lot of colorful drinks.
One of these meetings happened in Central Park as I was trying to get tickets to Hair, and because of it I got into the show. I was the second-to-last person to get a ticket--woo hoo!
Anyway, I highly recommend the show. I think it's going to go to Broadway. I saw the replacement actor for Claude but my friend said he seemed better than the original guy. I thought he was adorable.When I think of this show I always remember how in college I went to a production at a nearby college and a student reviewer said she was disturbed by the show because it was so pro-war.
If you don't know Hair...it's a show about hippies. It's kind of entirely anti-war.
It ends at a peace protest and everyone is asking where Claude is. He's now got short hair and is in uniform and they can't see him. She read it as him being so "above" his former friends that they couldn't even see him anymore. He was raised up because he had nobly gone to war.
It was kind of an interesting reading. Why would we spend an entire show listening to these kids sing, jump around and get naked just end by saying, "Well, thank goodness we've left those terrible people behind. Go war!" But I did wonder if there were some subtle differences in how it played back then. I mean...just in terms of how hippies were perceived then and now. I did admire Claude for going to war while being scared out of his mind.
In this production, I found the ending incredibly powerful. They made no bones about drawing parallels to the situation today, and the final scene had the cast leaving the stage singing "Let the Sunshine In" leaving behind Claude in uniform lying dead on the flag in a spotlight. Which pretty much goes for any combat situation.
And the audience all got to dance on stage and it was hopeful again.
Fandom-wise I seem to continue to write meta about the DC-verse in my head and not posting it.:-)
One of these meetings happened in Central Park as I was trying to get tickets to Hair, and because of it I got into the show. I was the second-to-last person to get a ticket--woo hoo!
Anyway, I highly recommend the show. I think it's going to go to Broadway. I saw the replacement actor for Claude but my friend said he seemed better than the original guy. I thought he was adorable.When I think of this show I always remember how in college I went to a production at a nearby college and a student reviewer said she was disturbed by the show because it was so pro-war.
If you don't know Hair...it's a show about hippies. It's kind of entirely anti-war.
It ends at a peace protest and everyone is asking where Claude is. He's now got short hair and is in uniform and they can't see him. She read it as him being so "above" his former friends that they couldn't even see him anymore. He was raised up because he had nobly gone to war.
It was kind of an interesting reading. Why would we spend an entire show listening to these kids sing, jump around and get naked just end by saying, "Well, thank goodness we've left those terrible people behind. Go war!" But I did wonder if there were some subtle differences in how it played back then. I mean...just in terms of how hippies were perceived then and now. I did admire Claude for going to war while being scared out of his mind.
In this production, I found the ending incredibly powerful. They made no bones about drawing parallels to the situation today, and the final scene had the cast leaving the stage singing "Let the Sunshine In" leaving behind Claude in uniform lying dead on the flag in a spotlight. Which pretty much goes for any combat situation.
And the audience all got to dance on stage and it was hopeful again.
Fandom-wise I seem to continue to write meta about the DC-verse in my head and not posting it.:-)
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