Quick note on musical arrangements

Work has sporadically continued on this project, now with a new collaborator, Renee. We've talked about various things, including somewhat narrowing our focus to specific versions of Hair that will help us keep focused on the most essential plot points, character development, etc. While opening her mind to other musical arrangements than those of the Hair revival produced by the Public Theatre, I discovered the official YouTube channel of Galt MacDermot's company, MacDermot Music LLC (also known as Kilmarnock Records). Included on that channel were some unique arrangements of Hair tunes that proved to be a great influence. I think we'll be drawing on some of these for our dream script. Below the jump, arranged in show order, are the clips I found.

Characters: How I See Them

Commonly, with a screenplay, a list indicating the cast of characters, with a brief (usually one-line) description of each, will be included.  As my script is based on the musical Hair, one would think there would not be such exposition, but in the world of Hollywood, all must be explained to within an inch of its life.  Some people have been asking me how my script will view the characters, and if they will take their cue from any specific production in particular.  Well, here's the scoreboard at present!

Musical Arrangements (Part Deux)

I delved a little the last time I wrote in this blog (which was... yikes, a year ago! Sorry folks!) into the question of musical arrangements for my proposed film of Hair.  One of the first things I did was to collect multiple cast recordings and think about what I wanted from each version of the show.  Hair has had many productions over the years, each with a certain amount of flexibility to the arrangements, and I liked a different thing about each.  Guided partially by Randy Bowser's representative guide for his successful Oregonian production in 2000, I've come up with what I believe to be a definitive way I want the film's music to sound.