IV: Charles Manson

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

But this Thalia Theater is not seated "in America", it once was an 
European temple of art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia_Theater_%28Hamburg%29

 > The *Thalia Theater* is one of the three state-owned theatres in 
Hamburg <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg>, Germany 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany>. It was founded in 1843 by 
Charles Maurice Schwartzenberger 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Maurice_Schwartzenberger&action=edit&redlink=1> 
and named after the muse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse> Thalia 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia_%28muse%29>. Today, it is home to 
one of Germany's most famous ensembles and stages around 9 new plays per 
season.<

On 20.09.2014 12:51, Mark Kohut wrote:
> everything in America can be turned into a musical. ----BLEEDING EDGE, 
> paraphrase, I'm sure.
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>
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> On Sep 20, 2014, at 4:58 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen 
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de <mailto: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
>>
>>
>> *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’.
>>
>> *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.*
>>
>> *World premiere on 26th September at Thalia Theater*
>>

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