Let us not forget this brilliant interpretation. Shakespeare meets 1960’s America. (Cut includes the segue into “Walking In Space”) A musical, and a theatrical concept, ahead of its time.
Jan Hermansays
Hi. Which cut?
Peter F McDowellsays
What a piece of work is man, from the musical HAIR.
Thanks Jan, may you and yours be spared the worse, of what appears to be looming in the black heart of time.
I paused and a comma lept into place where none intended.
and to you, dear Richard, the same. may the looming “black heart of time” miss us all … at least for a while longer.
(whether the number 23 signifies what WSB found in it is perhaps debatable, but it felt awfully true to me all year. )
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The first Broadway play I ever saw was HAMLET, with Richard Burton in the title role.
It was 1964, at the height of the Liz/Dick media frenzy.
Burton was terrific – as was the rest of the cast, performing on a mostly empty stage and wearing dark 1964 clothing.
The next night I attended my first B’way musical: the original production of OLIVER!
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Lovely memories. Thanks for saying.. Here’s a video of that Hamlet production. Not the real thing, but worth having just the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vABGEzB7T9M&t=6227s
Let us not forget this brilliant interpretation. Shakespeare meets 1960’s America. (Cut includes the segue into “Walking In Space”) A musical, and a theatrical concept, ahead of its time.
Hi. Which cut?
What a piece of work is man, from the musical HAIR.
ahhh. … I shld have realized.