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CHARLES MANSON, THE MUSICAL!? JIM STEINMAN’S LOST 1969 ROCK MUSICAL
Wow, I just found this great page on a musical called The Dream Engine, which Jim Steinman (later of Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, and Celine Dion fame) wrote and starred in at Amherst College and then Mount Holyoke in the spring of 1969. The story centers around a Manson-like character named Baal, the revolutionary poet and leader of a tribe of wild boys on the California coast.
http://www.jimsteinman.com/comeinthenight.html
American Revolution, 1969. The beast lives forever. The creatures are behind you! The universe is in a state of triumph. I am meat. I am muscled space. I am electrified nerve ends! I am colored light! I am chemical blood! I am the meat of the universe! I am the muscles of space! I am the colored light of a god! I am the nerve end of a star. I am the chemical blood of the future.
Dig it.
Here’s the Amherst Student review from April 28, 1969:
http://www.jimsteinman.com/dreamengine/defckcum.htm
A piece from Steinman himself for the paper on “Nudity in Theater – A Metaphor for Revolution”:
http://www.jimsteinman.com/dreamengine/deltr.htm
And great description of Joe Papp’s aborted New York production, from cast member Bob Sather:
SUSAN ATKINS, MANSON CULT MEMBER, DEAD AT 61
Susan Atkins - the member of Charles Manson’s cult who confessed to killing 26-year-old pregnant actor Sharon Tate in the infamous Manson killings in August 1969 that also victimized Steven Parent, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca - passed away today at the age of 61.
Tate was murdered in the home she and director Roman Polanski rented on Cielo Drive in the Hollywood Hills.
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-25-susan-atkins-obit_N.htm?csp=34
‘1969′ IN THE SUMMER OF ‘09
Be on the lookout this summer for 1969: The Year Everything Changed at Barnes and Noble, where the book will be featured in a special promotion to commemorate the 40th anniversary of that eventful “Summer of ‘69″!
The moon landing…Woodstock…the Amazin’ Mets…Easy Rider…Charles Manson…and more. The stories from that summer grabbed the headlines and left indelible impressions upon an entire generation of Americans. As the subtitle implies, 1969 left our nation forever changed.
- Rob