A new milestone in Broadway history was set in 1968 when Hair, the first rock musical, opened to mass popularity. Tackling controversial and explosive issues of the era in a theatrically innovative fashion, the brash and exciting musical sustained a...

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and music by Galt MacDermot. The musical was a product of the hippy counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, and several of...

A sort of psychedelic aura hung over the Kennedy Center last night for the 14th annual Helen Hayes Awards. "Hair," as adapted by the Studio Theatre SecondStage, took honors as the outstanding resident musical of 1997, and its director, Keith Alan Baker,...

Charleston, Rita Philadelphia Tribune, The 05-02-2003 "Yes, there's a lot of rejection in show business. But there's a lot of rejection in college admissions. There's a lot of rejection in dating. We all face a lot of rejection in many aspects of life....

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Hair has been the most successful music drama of the decade, if not of the entire postwar era…. [It] has been exalted as a paean to the health and vitality of today's youth, denounced as an open slander of time-tested ideals, dismissed as a commercial exploitation. Whatever one's opinions as to its worth, nobody can deny its success. (p. 9) Hair has been widely hailed as the salvation of the Broadway musical, which has been dying an inexorable death from massive public indifference to a...

[I dearly wish that I had seen "Hair"] earlier—say, during the lamented 1967 "Summer of Love" that gave birth to it. For, astonishingly enough, the three years of history that have changed me along with everyone else have also left a perceptible patina of age on "Hair," a patina which no amount of newly minted anti-Nixon-and-Agnew jokes can dissipate—inspiring some glum thoughts…. The unexpected trouble with it is, so to speak, at its roots.

"This, folks, is the Psychedelic Stone Age," says Claude, in the Broadway musical production, Hair. Claude opens the show by declaring that "… I'm a genius genius / I believe in Gawd / And I believe that Gawd / Believes in Claude / That's me that's me." Of course, Claude doesn't believe in Gawd—nobody does in the cast of Hair, because they are far too sophisticated, provided one understands that paganism is sophistication…. [A] gre...

The musical and movie "Hair" was a celebration of Hippie ideals that rebel against conformity and the Vietnam War. The Hippie ethos in this work consists of drugs, sex, racial equality, pacifism and boundless love.