IV: Charles Manson

[Mark Kohut]

everything in America can be turned into a musical. ----BLEEDING EDGE, paraphrase, I'm sure.

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> On Sep 20, 2014, at 4:58 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> Panem et circenses ... I won't go there.
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> Charles Manson: Summer of Hate – The Musical
> A musical trip between L.A. and the Death Valley
> Directed by Stefan Pucher
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> Charles Manson – the name is synonymous with an American nightmare. While Woodstock was celebrating the ‘summer of love’ in 1969, Manson became a gravedigger, condemning his followers to brutal ritualistic murders in the Hollywood Hills. 
> Lesser known than the demonic seducer is the failed musician Charles Manson. After spending half his life in prison, Manson emerged onto San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury scene in 1967, before travelling to Los Angeles, the economic and cultural epi-centre of pop culture towards the end of the Sixties. Manson’s ‘Family’, a commune of young,  predominantly female outcasts from prosperous America, saw many stars come in and out – greats of the music scene including Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, Neil Young and producer Terry Melcher all sponsored the charismatic singer songwriter.  The sexual availability of his female followers and drugs served not only as currency for access to Hollywood royalty, but were also Manson’s most important instrument of power within the ‘Family’. While his music career failed, as ‘band leader’ he experienced similar adoration to a pop star. When he relocated the core ‘Family’ to a disused Western movie ranch in Death Valley, Manson and his followers prepared themselves for ‘Helter Skelter’, the final race war that Manson believed was foretold in detail in The Beatles’ ‘White Album’. 
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> Director Stefan Pucher stages a musical trip between L.A. and the Death Valley, hippy ideals and the death cult, the excesses of rock star life and the means of finding food from the rubbish bins of American civilisation.
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> World premiere on 26th September at Thalia Theater
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