Tag: Hair: The American Tribal Love Rock Musical
Theatre in the Park’s Sold-Out Production of Hair Reaches Across Generations
A time of racial strife, a seemingly unending and unpopular war, a contentious political election, a general feeling of doom. Sound familiar? We could say those words described America last week or last month or 10 years ago. Those words also described an equally confused and divided America back in 1967, when Hair debuted Off-Broadway…. Read More ›
Theatre in the Park’s Hair Lets All the Sunshine In
In the spring of 1968, on Manhattan’s West 47th Street, a musical opened on Broadway that would become legendary in the world of theater for decades afterwards. Hair (subtitled The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical) is an autobiographical musical with book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and a score by Galt MacDermot. Hair… Read More ›
“Hair” Lets Its Freak Flag Fly at DPAC
The eyebrow-raising 1967 psychedelic rock musical “Hair: The American Tribal Love Rock Musical,” now quickening Baby Boomers’ pulses at the Durham Performing Arts Center, is a real trip (pun intended), a tie-dyed treat with a toe-tapping score that includes “Aquarius,” “Let the Sun Shine In,” “Easy to Be Hard,” and “Good Morning, Starshine.”