SPOILER ALERT
If you haven't seen the play or are only a casual enthusiast (you know the songs, some of the story, seen the movie, etc.) and you don't want the play's ending to be spoiled, read no further please!
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Friday, July 9, 2010
Second-Guessing the Creative Mind
Over the years, as many fans of Hair can attest, James Rado, the surviving co-author, and Galt MacDermot, the composer, have made many changes to the show. So many changes have been made in fact that the script released by Tams-Witmark Music Library for amateur licensing, with a copyright date of 1995, has been excoriated by Mr. Rado for its "confusing textual material." He considers it a "big mistake" that the "superior revised version" is not being licensed. The question is, how much revision is too much?
Early Brainstorming: An Overarching Concept
The first step to writing a screenplay of Hair is making an essentially plotless show slightly more linear for the screen.
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