| Hair - The Musical |
| Karen Marie Shelton |
| Revised Date: 01/17/07 - Original Publication Date: 6/23/00 |
Introduction
What does Hair the musical have to do with hair that
grows on mammals you might ask? Everything and
nothing.
Because it was considered so revolutionary, the
musical known as Hair: The American Tribal
Love/Rock Musical the play which eventually became a
movie, featured the majority of the cast completely
nude. It was considered to be the defining play
and film about the drug, music, free love and peace
culture of the 1960s.
The popular score of Hair was ultimately responsible
for several pop hits.
Hair was written by James Rado (New York)
Gerome Ragni (from Pittsburgh, PA) and Galt
Macdermot (from Montreal, Canada).
HAIR opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on
West 47th Street in 1968. It was such a huge hit
and society event that over the years since its original
opening it has been produced around the world and
translated into a dizzying array of languages from its
original English.
The play has appeared from Japan and Australia to
South and Central America and all over Europe.
Even though there have been periods where the play was
not as popular as others, it has pretty much been
playing somewhere in the world since the beginning of
its life on Broadway.
A new interest in Hair occurred in the
mid-1980s.
Hair: The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical
What does Hair the musical have to do with hair that
grows on mammals you might ask? Everything and
nothing.
A quick search on the Internet provides tons of great
sites with a range of details.
Check out the following Hair related links:
Visit the official website of James Rado the
original creator of Hair at:
http://www.hairthemusical.com/
The Hair Pages
http://www.geocities.com/hairpages/
Hair at the Internet Broadway Database
http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?id=3393
Lists of current Hair Productions
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/CurrentProductions.html |