HAIR - Colored Spade

This is a number from Theater Mitu's production of HAIR, directed by Ruben Polendo. It's called Colored Spade, a racially charged performance by Elinor Famutimi. Music by Todd Almond.

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• Hair
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• Mitu
• Ruben
• Polendo
• Todd
• Almond
• NYU
• Skirball
• Tisch
• Elinor
• Ellie
• Famutimi
• Colored
• Spade
• War
• MrLomaLoma
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[ImaniOU]

I liked the costumes with loose white clothing, the minstrel makeup, and bare feet, but nothing will ever compare to Lamont Washington's original rendition of this song.

I grew up having racial slurs thrown at me (n addition to rocks, sticks, and spit) and having to fight almost every day yet this is one of my favorite songs of Hair. Hud lists all the labels and stereotypes slung around by the establishment while celebrating the openness and love felt by the counterculture.

[MrLomaLoma]

WORD

[raynarayskye]

Sometimes I feel this way.

[GleekGirl1234]

WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!

[braxtonioan]

...........im confused, this is kinda wierd

[jarvisbmanningjr]

PERFECT PERFORMANCE

[Seston]

ive never seen the show, can someone tell me what this is all about?

[balletsouth]

I certainly see your point and agree that SOME of the message was maintained but I suppose that using the antiquated imagery of minstrel shows doesn't seem to me at all effective when the modern community doesn't personally recognize or identify with such a metaphor. Most young people don't know what minstrel shows are and the role they played in vaudevillian society.

[balletsouth]

I guess my argument is that a more identifiable (but still imaginative) metaphor would've been more effective especially considering the role this show played in the time it was written. A play on blackface not only seems too literal, but too easy and too posterior.

[justwhatimthinking]

This waa, something other then just a nostalgic celebration of what was, and weather this production was completely successful or not, it was interesting, it made you think, and it was worth creating. Oh and Galt MacDermot and James Rado came and saw it and they were really excited by it.