Quote from: Leighton on Jan 19, 2025, 11:50 AMI thought Sweeney might have one but can't think of it - same for Sunday (thought more YOUR hair than MY hair).

Yeah, I thought of those too; while I admittedly haven't done an exhaustive search for any other instances beyond these seven, Johanna and Dot did occur to me as possibilities — but I couldn't think of any moment where either of them actually sings about her own hair.  It's always their respective admirers who are the ones rhapsodizing about it.

Even Dot's self-critique in "Color and Light" covers seemingly every other physical attribute, but not that one.  (Then again, when you've cast Bernadette Peters, you probably don't write a lyric that asks an audience to believe her character is insecure about, of all things, her hair).

I thought Sweeney might have one but can't think of it - same for Sunday (thought more YOUR hair than MY hair).

Brushing my hair,
Combing my hair.
Only my mother
And me and my hair.
Our little world
Is perfect...
If she just didn't drool.


Four down (Desirée, Florinda, Charlotte, Rapunzel), three to go...

It's worth noting that the four instances played so far just happen to cover the two "double"-my hair shows, in which an unrelated pair of occurrences happens in the same show:  A Little Night Music and Into The Woods.

And "Our Little World", the "seemingly most-obvious" instance (given who's singing), also covers the other "not immediately obvious" lyric (since the song was added later and made "optional", and may therefore be less widely familiar).

So, to recap:

• The three remaining instances (that I'm aware of) all come from different shows:  different from each other, and from the ones that have already been played.
• None is a cut song like "Bang!" or a later addition like "Our Little World" — these three songs have all been in their respective shows since their original productions (and cast albums), and remain in them to this day, so they're not too obscure.
• And, while one is from a less widely-known show, to those who have seen or heard it (it's had at least three cast albums), the song in which it appears tends to pop out as an instant highlight.
• None are hidden in chorus or counterpoint; the remaining three instances are all technically duets, but all three "my hair"s occur in clear, easy-to-hear solo lines.
• The three remaining instances are sung by women ranging in age from "very young" (probably even younger than Rapunzel, and, one could say, following a similar path) to "eyeing middle age from a cautious distance" (like a less-jaded Charlotte, perhaps).  [CORRECTION: This latter instance, while relaying the woman's words verbatim, is actually sung by a man -- my bad!! 

He smiles sweetly, 
Strokes my hair,
Says he misses me.

NYT:   Theater Productions to Stream Now

Includes The 7th Voyage of Egon Tiche, which probably more than anything put Theater in Quarantine on the map when Jesse Green reviewed it in the summer of 2020; I posted it on this very thread back then, and the original production can still be viewed here.

But the NYT is touting 7th Voyage again at least partly because the show is being revived, now for an in-person audience (and expanded from 35 minutes to 50), at New York Theatre Workshop as part of this year's Under The Radar festival.  While their review of this new version is less favorable, its main draw would presumably be the chance to see, beyond the edges of the TiQ closet-qua-performance-lab, exactly how the show is created in real time — similar, in that sense, to the "live film" performances of Manual Cinema, whom TiQ's Joshua William Gelb has mentioned as an inspiration.

This new stage version, in turn, will be livestreamed from NYTW tomorrow and the following two Sundays.  I don't know, but am guessing, that these livestreams may likewise expand the frame to reveal the mechanics of how the show is being made, as well as the resulting live-mixed video (projected onto large screens flanking Gelb's reconstructed "closet").

In-person tickets (closes 2/2), $30-50:        https://www.nytw.org/7th-voyage-tickets/
Livestream tickets (1/19, 1/26, 2/2), $19:    https://www.nytw.org/live-stream-the-7th-voyage/

Re-watching the original piece last night, I don't think TiQ had yet adopted its later policy in which any pre-recorded performance elements are "pre"recorded only within the temporal bounds of each individual live performance/capture (so, for instance, a piece of the current performance could be looped for reuse later during that same performance; and while that loop was playing onscreen, Gelb use his resulting "off-camera" time to record another snippet of action likewise to be used only during that same performance).  Even without that rule, and with what appears likely to have been a whole lot of earlier pre-recording and -editing, the 2020 version of 7th Voyage was evidently a pretty insane jigsaw puzzle.  Now that he's performing the show in front of an in-person audience, I'm wondering whether its expanded length might involve some even-more-mind-boggling restructuring to bring the show more in line with the company's evolving definition of "live"-ness — in this case, perhaps, finding ways to achieve the necessary dazzling multiplicity of Gelbs onscreen with less pre-recording and more live-looping (though I'm sure there was already plenty of the latter in the 2020 version; during one of his talkbacks, Gelb confesses that, while watching the full capture of a dress rehearsal before the show's first public livestream, even he kept getting confused as to which elements were which, i.e. "live" vs. looped vs. prerecorded).

Quote from: KathyB on Jan 16, 2025, 10:51 AM

Quote from: Bobster on Jan 16, 2025, 10:33 AMI have a bunch of pics if people will like.

Yes, please!

Seconded!

All it has to be is good—
And, George, you're good.
You're really good...

George's stroke is tender,
George's touch is pure.


There is a "stroke" — or a playable variant — that will get us back to one of the other "my hair"s, should anyone choose to accept the challenge.  (Two down, five to go).

Quote from: Bobster on Jan 16, 2025, 10:33 AMI have a bunch of pics if people will like.

Yes, please!

I was there to view. There were just a FEW things I would have liked to get but I knew they would go for quite a bit.
Not for HOW MUCH they went for, wow! And I did bid on a few to no success.

I have a bunch of pics if people will like.

I was too.