Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
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Opened Apr 14, 2010
Closed Sep 4, 2010
Opened Apr 14, 2010
Closed Sep 4, 2010
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Winner of the 2009 Tony for Best Revival of a Musical!
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical features book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and music by Galt MacDermot. Diane Paulus directs a cast led by Gavin Creel, Will Swenson, and Caissie Levy.
With a score including musical numbers as "Let the Sun Shine In," "Aquarius," "Hair" and "Good Morning Starshine," Hair follows a group of hopeful, free-spirited young people who advocate a lifestyle of pacifism and free-love in a society riddled with intolerance and brutality during the Vietnam War. As they explore sexual identity, challenge racism, experiment with drugs and burn draft cards, the "tribe" in Hair creates an irresistible message of 'hope' that continues to resonate with audiences 40 years later.
The production opened on Broadway to rave reviews, with TheaterMania's Brian Scott Lipton declaring that "in the remarkably sure hands of director Diane Paulus and a committed cast of young Broadway talent, the landmark 1967 work not only retains its political and social relevance, but remains a remarkably joyous and occasionally heartbreaking piece of theater. The result is the year's best Broadway musical revival."
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Gielgud Theatre
33 Shaftesbury Ave
London, England
The Gielgud Theatre opened in December 1906 as The Hicks Theatre. Later renamed The Globe, it was renamed yet again in 1994. To honor Sam Wanamaker's dream that Shakespeare's Globe would be the only Globe in London.
33 Shaftesbury Ave
London, England
The Gielgud Theatre opened in December 1906 as The Hicks Theatre. Later renamed The Globe, it was renamed yet again in 1994. To honor Sam Wanamaker's dream that Shakespeare's Globe would be the only Globe in London.
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The Public Theatre's Tony Award-winning revival of the 1960s musical
Hair has been transplanted to London with most of the 2009 Broadway cast intact, and while there's something faintly ticklish about this hymn to American counter-culture being staged in the West End's plush Gielgud Theatre, one can't argue with its infectious energy.
Diane Paulus' production is played as a thing of its time. There's no attempt to add a sprinkling of irony to it or to update it in any way, but that's not to say it's without relevance. The show's capacity to shock has, however, almost entirely evaporated; the references to sodomy and masturbation -- and even the mass disrobing that ends the first act -- fe[...]