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1968 (Forty years later...)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Eek! Elle, I have to hide under a rock! Blush! But thank you!
Now:
--- Quote from: Elle on August 18, 2008, 06:46:14 pm ---Hey! I'd never heard of Jonathan Groff, but he's going to be in Ang's new Woodstock movie!
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But now I have to say--Jonathan Groff is really a White Boy worth talking about! :o
I loved him in Spring Awakening as the brave, anguished, forthright Melchior Gabor, and, when he was to be in Hair in Central Park this month (but leaving the production early, yesterday, on Sunday, August 17), I said to Meryl--that's it, it's this weekend or not at all! And we did it! ;D
Funny--I sent some pictures to a friend in San Francisco, an exact contemporary (she went to see Hair in San Francisco in 1970 at 16, just as I went to see it in New York, same year)--and she sent me back an email, and said:
My goodness me! It all comes rushing back! I just loved that "Frank Mills" tune. What songs stayed in your mind? And such hunky cast members! Back in the day, I believe, they were probably on the 'wan' side!
Hilarious!
So here's the real White Boy, 'smooth as milk' (and hunky!) Jonathan Groff! (The extremely young and extremely talented three principals of Spring Awakening, Jonathan, his real live Lady Love, Lea Michele, and my "cousin"--Hah! Joke!--John Gallagher, Jr., the Emmy winner, have now all left the show for even more amazing things--but it's still a terrific show, so try it if you can!)
But here's Mr. Groff!
From left: John Gallagher, Jr., Lea Michele, and Jonathan Groff
and--
Hair!
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on August 18, 2008, 03:37:37 am ---I have vivid memories of going to see the stage play Hair.
It was July 1970, in Sydney.
My husband and I made a last minute decison to go go and see it and got to the theatre only ten minutes before show time. Hubby said he would go and park the car, while I went to the ticket office to buy the tickets. As I walked up to the ticket office, I was aproached by two American Marines.....at the time, Sydney was a very popular place for American servicemen to take R&R leave from Vietnam.......they asked me if I wanted to see the show, and I said I was just about to buy tickets for me and my husband. They handed me two tickets, and said, have these.
Apparently they had bought four tickets, two for themselves and two for their dates who apparently had not turned up, which was quite sad. We ended up sitting next to them in the theatre. We were planning to ask them if they wanted to go for a drink afterwards, but unfortunately they did not return after intermission.
Whenever I hear the music of Hair, I always remember that night, and those American marines.
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Lovely, lovely story, Katie! Thank you! (I bet the marines didn't leave because of the politics--I bet they decided to go back and find more girls!)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Meryl on August 18, 2008, 12:32:14 pm ---John, you are a true channeler of the 60's, and you're even five years younger than me! I must have slept a lot as I went through high school and college. ;)
Thanks for the great "Hair" pics, and of course for spending all day in line getting the so-called free tickets. I'm glad to see your one illicit snapshot came out, despite the usher's stern looks. ;D
I was hoarse as a hog after belting out the high part of "Let the Sun Shine" in chest voice! :P
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Thank you, Meryl! We can be 'Rainbow' and 'Moonbeam' yet!
(Wasn't that 'Staff' girl something fierce?? ::) )
Aloysius J. Gleek:
And by 1969, we found, these, uh, variants--but still valid artifacts of the '60s!
5th dimension-Aquarius-Let the Sunshine In (3:50)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uONF0zJz2Oo[/youtube]
Bob McGrath, the Muppets - Good Morning, Starshine (3:06)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q2wXCiZ4oc[/youtube]
Gotta love 'em!
cmr107:
Great Hair pictures John! I saw it 2 or 3 years ago at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. My parents (who were 21 and 19 in 1968) said it was important for my brother and I to see it. I listen to the title song all the time and a few others are definite favorites of mine. I love that show.
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