Claude was too unsure of himself to do as Berger did — to actually burn his draft card to demonstrate his objection to the senseless deaths in Vietnam. There were many military dissenters serving overseas and in military bases and posts across this great land, doing their own bidding against an unjust war. Tioga Joe (yo, dude) and I have had some really thrilling conversations about the back story to HAIR, including the unseen part of the action that occurs in Vietnam. Although later rewites of the show place Vietcong with rifles onstage (ugh), in the original Bway version (the successful one – you know: the version that was really a worldwide phenomenon), all one sees is Claude being hit by unseen bullets (rim shots from the drummer). As Berger and the Tribe discover he is missing from the demonstration in the snow at he induction center…as they look for him with increasing alarm…Claude, wandering among them, finally and truly Invisible as he had wished aloud earlier, reprises “Ain’t Got No…”, gets shot by multiple rifle bullets (I count seven), and then disappears off stage…and returns – dead – in a DRESS UNIFORM (NOT fatigues – !!! I am honored to lend my energy to an extremely ‘heavy subject’. He may not have been shooting back, but his killer was no deranged sergeant, a “Lifer” or career military man, who would risk his career and pesonal freedom by committing a war crime, by summarily executing a GI for merely refusing to obey orders. “Claude comes forward, now dead, killed in Vietnam, invisible to the tribe – just as returning Vietnam vets were “invisible” in American culture – and as he reprises his theme song, “Manchester England,” the The cross was used, I suppose, as their own personal expression and perhaps belief as an external visual force of utter compassion, sorrow, and bewilderment. Like it or not, they got me!’ He’s invisible now. One meaningful comparison is to the civilian population of the United States. Find More Answers. The death rate for African American men ages 20 to 34 in Philadelphia was 4.37 per 1,000 in 2002, 11 percent higher than among troops in Iraq. The day he set foot in Vietnam. I watched his failures compound as he took it out on cast members. Claude Barolet died in 1761. He’s saying: 1. ‘Ain’t got no’ (friends). Source Judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin.And he saw corruption everywhere, except within.Clopin during "The Bells of Notre Dame" Claude Frollo is the main antagonist of Disney's 1996 animated feature film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Between March 21, 2003, when the first military death was recorded in Iraq, and March 31, 2006, there were 2,321 deaths among American troops in Iraq. Melinda Bowensees Sicily as a very kind and gentle girl. Trackbacks are closed. Claude Mckay, 1889-1948 If we must die—let it not be like hogs The simile “let it not be like hog” motivates the audience to die with dignity, it does this by implanting the thought of dying like a hog, since hogs often die a brutal and cruel death this simile motivates the audience to die a righteous death. As Berger and the Tribe discover he is missing from the demonstration in the snow at the induction center…as they look for him with increasing alarm…Claude, wandering among them, finally and truly Invisible as he had wished aloud earlier, reprises “I’m Here!…â€. Jerry was a C.O. Oh, and about Claude’s being killed so quickly after arriving as a GI in Vietnam: They weren’t called FNG’s by the GI’s for nothing. At this moment, many a ‘Berger’, (Red Sheppard (Los Angeles), Kenny Ortega (Venus Tour), and others) would raise two sticks that they used to symbolically ‘beat back the demons’; placed these wooden instruments into a perfect Christian cross above the dead body as it lay middle stage. Some other factors to be considered: Branch of service: Marines are paying the highest toll in Iraq. [Burial – 21 gun salute – bugle – all this has happened already.]. Their relationship was an uphill battle, but Catherine Di Medici gave the couple her blessing to wed when Leith saved both Catherine and Claude from an assationation attempt. Of course, the next scenes are fast forwarded about 6 months after his ‘boot camp’ training, and then fast forwarded even further as he his then placed ‘in country’, and where he goes from there, where he meets his maker – it is extremely liberal in the presentation and left to liberal; innovative and creative interpretations. The words are Romeo’s, after he finds Juliet’s (apparently) dead body, and just before he takes his own life. Claude is a tall and handsome man with short black hair that has long bangs swept to the right and gold eyes which are adorned by clear square glasses. Besides, were that the case, then Claude never made it to Vietnam anyway (that is, if it was a DI, or Drill Instructor, who shot him — that’s the guy in boot camp and AIT, Advanced Infantry Training, done Stateside). NOTE: This partial chapter is an excerpt from “Rebels with Applause: Broadway’s Ground-Breaking Musicals,” by Scott Miller, published by Heinemann Publishing. This claim, accompanied by a refusal to follow orders to do combat duty, surely pissed off a sergeant or two during the Vietnam War. These have reduced the ratio of deaths to wounds from 24 percent in Vietnam to 13 percent in Iraq. Hollywood is a perpetrator but not in HAIR. The tribe is begging us, the audience, to change things, to stop the killing, the hatred, the discrimination, the destruction of our world. Why? He was killed by Claude just to make use of his soul to consume Ciel's which is really very tragic for his part since Alois thought Claude only acknowledges … It says we have to take action, we have to let the sun shine on the darkness around us, and the implication is unmistakable – if we don’t let the sun shine, What does that say about Claude’s character at the be-in with his own tribe mates? One possibility about Claude’s service in Nam and about the circumstances of his death that I imagined aloud with you, what that he may could well have registered as a C.O. Who made up the "silent majority" of Americans that President Richard Nixon claimed to represent? Samuel H. Preston is the Frederick J. Warren professor of demography at the University of Pennsylvania. But one can also find something equivalent to combat conditions on home soil. A propos of this (and I welcome anyone’s thoughts on the matter), here is a fascinating piece of statistics from the current version of Vietnam, another unjustified war based on official lies and media illusins, the accursed war in Iraq. As Claude waits for the poison to work on Edgar, Claude tries to get out of the burning barn but sees his brother's figure in the smoke. Part of the reduction in the death rate is attributable to improvements in military medicine and such things as the use of body armor. It didn’t take long Dream On 105. Seventy-nine percent were a result of action by hostile forces. But I have another question: Why was Claude killed so quickly? It seems in the show that he goes through basic training in record time, hits the ground in Nam and gets blown away 10 seconds later. Is it because Corpsmen at the front lines had one of the highest death rates, and no way to shoot back…? A world; a created entity of machine, devoid of compassion, feelings and empathy, fails to balance the POSSIBILITIES which manifest themselves into the human expression as critical thought and emotion. Identifying racial and ethnic differences in mortality is not straightforward because the Defense Department uses a different classification system for deaths than for deployments. So, we come back to viewing the show from the audience’s perspective – what they see. Rank: In both the Army and the Marines, enlisted personnel have 40 percent higher mortality than officers. These heavenly creatures (children) are now placed into harms way. I am deliberately not going to go there because it will definitely not prove the point that Claude was a coward. If he was a grunt, what did these types do there? This is the genius of interpretations. The message is: It can happen to any family, no matter the color. When he meets his parents in a confrontation, (down stage – center, Act 1) he is always reading (this time the newspaper), he looks for connections and finds none. ” He and his race have a purpose in this world. However, equally profound is the fact that acts of dissention takes great amounts of patriotism and a diiference of presentation; often times more than most followers can do. Some have said it was his Protestant home life that brought this on but at this point, I think we are over analyzing a moment. And often guys WERE put into action quickly after arrival (that is, if they survived arrival, with VC rocket attacks on planes coming and going). Samuel H. Preston & Emily Buzzell | Saturday, August 26, 2006; A21 | The Washington Post Princess Claude of Valois was born on November 12, 1547 in Fontainebleau, France, as the 2nd daughter & 3rd child born to King Henry II & his wife Queen Catherine de Medici. Also, in Vietnam, medics and corpsmen were specifically targeted by the enemy, because of their value in keeping Americans alive. Can we see our own deaths? This requiring thought, from a blanked-out personal journey into our own frailty deserves recognition. Despite this Sicily is willing to use pitty as she hope that Apparently, there was nothing left to recover. Be the first to answer! The more the show is kept to its pure arrangement and direction the better was the overall production. They are saying that we are in a time of darkness (as described in detail by “The Flesh Failures,” “Easy to Be Hard,” and other songs), that it is now time to let the sun shine in and change things. Don’t like that possibility at all. Here’s an exerpt from my press release for his presentation here in 2004: Gerald Gioglio, of Trenton, NJ, received an honorable discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector in 1969. “If We Must Die” is a Shakespearean sonnet written by the Jamaican poet Claude McKay in 1919. In his mature works, Monet developed his method of producing repeated studies of the same motif in series, changing canvases with the light or as his interest shifted. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sixteen, Part One 110. Follow comments here with the RSS 2.0 feed. First, the machine; it eats its young, gathers the riches, and celebrates (short-lived), then denies it ever knew that evils such as those would come about, “Who would of knownâ€, is a favorite of today. How many signers of the Declaration of Independence became president? What is the outcome? The following day, Claude is captured by Father Solomon's men. His goal is to get rid of every single gypsy in Paris. We used these fighting men as fodder – simply put as pawns in a no good war. Barbara Lee Horn, based on what Gerry and Jim told her, assumed that Claude’s drill instructor shot him when he ran away. Appeared in 155 episodes from 1992 - 2000. Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: / ˈ m ɒ n eɪ /, US: / m oʊ ˈ n eɪ /, French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. Does Claude die? I was a brown-skinned Claude, originally cast in this role from Hawai’i. Age, sex , race and ethnicity: In contrast to the civilian population, mortality rates decline precipitously with age. There is a ‘floating’ remembrance of a soul (Claude), we once knew in a plot, full of time periods, full of confusion which honors part patriotism, anti-war, peace and aggressiveness in the same breath, manifested within the tribe’s psyche and in Claude’s remembrance.