Hair
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 innovati...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
If only good intentions were golden, "Hair" … would be great. As it is it is merely pretty good; an honest attempt to jolt the American musical int...
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Critical Essay by William F. Buckley, Jr.
"This, folks, is the Psychedelic Stone Age," says Claude, in the Broadway musical production, Hair. Claude opens the show by declaring that ...
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Critical Essay by Theophilus Lewis
[Hair] is a saturnalia in scatology that voices the revolt of the hippie generation, which rejects all traditional values of the social order, as well as the amenit...
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Critical Essay by Robert Kotlowitz
[There] is something curiously attractive about [Hair's] excessiveness (and vigor), its willingness to be both flamboyant and ruthless on behalf of its cause...
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Critical Essay by Benedict Nightingale
The beleaguered youth of Hair live precarious, vulnerable lives. If it isn't the fuzz, vindictively breaking up a harmless 'suck-in' on the...
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Critical Essay by John Weightman
Hair comes rather as an anticlimax. The actual performance did not seem to contain any features that have not already been present in other avant-garde productions. (...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
"Hair" is beautiful…. Nearly a year after the opening, the show has a kind of radiant freshness. It still seems as though the whole thing is swiftl...
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Critical Essay by Gene Lees
The real nature and significance of the [nude scene in Hair] seems to have gone unobserved by everyone.
Before we get into that, I want to define my position on the ...
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Critical Essay by John Rockwell
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 t...
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Critical Essay by Peter Schjeldahl
[I dearly wish that I had seen "Hair"] earlier—say, during the lamented 1967 "Summer of Love" that gave birth to it. For, astonis...
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Critical Essay by David Ewen
The psychedelic years of the late 1960's had a musical stage spokesman in Hair. The authors, Gerome Ragni and James Rado, have revealed that for two years they had...
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Critical Essay by Edith Oliver
I have mixed feelings about "Hair."… (p. 128)
"Hair" is a musical comedy about life among the hippies in New York—a mixture...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Swift
"What a big put-on!" is the cynical reaction many of us have on first being exposed to Hair. A closer look, however, might cause a wary reevaluation, fo...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
The progenies of "Hair" have not enjoyed a great track record. It is therefore all the more pleasant to report that the latest of that tribe, "Rain...
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Critical Essay by Richard Eder
Nothing ages worse than graffiti. "Hair," the hippie musical, was a raffish slogan scrawled in day-glow upon the institutional walls of the late 1960...
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Critical Essay by Brendan Gill
Why on earth should anyone have wished to bring back "Hair"? Surely not for any reason as simple as making money. No, I Fear that its producers believed i...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
[When Hair! first appeared in 1967] it was carefree going indeed. True, there were weaknesses, but the show's flower children were in full bloom, the anti-war prot...
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Critical Essay by Howard Taubman
The story line of "Hair" … is so attenuated that it would be merciful to label the piece a revue. Examined under this rubric, it can be appreciat...
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Critical Essay by Robert Brustein
The concept of a hippie musical with an electronic score is potentially very exciting, and I am convinced that the sound of rock—a sound that has developed re...
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Critical Essay by Henry Hewes
Hair has a minimum of plot, being content merely to try to describe what it is like to be a teen-age hippie. Gerome Ragni and James Rado, who wrote the book and lyrics &...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Weales
What Hair has most to offer is the good-natured exuberance implicit in even the most ordinary rock music and embodied in the vitality of young performers. It has sever...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
What is so likable about "Hair" …? I think it is simply that it is so likable. So new, so fresh and so unassuming, even in its pretensions…....
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Critical Essay by William Kloman
"Hair" will be the "West Side Story" of the sixties. The difference between the two shows illustrates how far we've come in a decad...
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Hair, a "tribal-rock musical" (Barnes), captures the attitudes and idealisms of the Hippie movement of the 1960's. Written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, with music and lyrics by Galt McDermot, Hair ...
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Berlin (dpa) - First the forehead gets higher, then a spot at the
back of the head clears - hair loss is for many men the worst thing
they could possibly suffer as they get ...
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