Re: Messiah XXI - apologies if this is duplicated

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

No, I'm in the USA.  At the time I didn't hear any discussion of the 
controversy from the UK list members, so I thought it went pretty much 
unnoticed outside of Ireland.  You're the only guy on any of the lists I 
belong to who seems to have made it to the show.  Appreciate the info.

keets


>are you in UK ?
>I'm in dublin
>
>>From: "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>
>>To: thewho@igtc.com
>>Subject: Re: Messiah XXI - apologies if this is duplicated
>>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:25:08 GMT
>>
>>Hmmm.  Well, I was thinking the backlash had only been local, as the only 
>>way I knew about it was to poke around in the Irish Times.  I guess it 
>>must have gotten around in the UK, though.  I guess we'll just have to 
>>wait.
>>
>>keets
>>
>>
>>>I've been in touch with him but I think the opinion within the company is 
>>>that because it received such bad press they're waiting for things to die 
>>>down.
>>>The bad press came not from the performances,but from the organisation - 
>>>the government had allocated £x million for a "millenium event"...The 
>>>Messiah show took a large share of this and there was a huge backlash 
>>>against it because only a certain portion of the population could see it 
>>>and so it shouldnt have been eligible for a national fund etc...
>>>
>>>As I've mentioned,if your VCR can play PAL I can run off a copy.
>>>
>>>Jeremy
>>>
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