Gimmie a head with HAIR!

It's a rather crappy dated show, but it was the last musical to produce a plethora of number one hits.

Just the head?

One of the very few OBC recordings I didn't buy on CD when it came out.

Never haird of it.

The Hamilton of its day.

I found the movie scene of Treat Williams urinating while John Savage watched highly homoerotic.

The only time Broadway was groovy.

I was in High School when it made a splash on B-way, The cast was on Carson and did "Aquarius". I loved it. The Cast album had just been released. I remember calling the local record store and felt silly asking..."Do you have Hair?" No one understood what I was talking about.

Gimme a dick with hair

Bushy, pubic hair

Sweaty, coarse

Scrotal flaxen, waxen

I saw the original production when it came to SF -- I was still in high school--must have been '70. Then I saw it again a few years ago and it made me feel REALLY old. For one thing, I realized that it debuted more than 50 years ago! That made me think that when I was seeing it in 1970, the 1920s were more than 50 years in the past -- and I thought of the '20s as being ancient history. Then in 2019 watching all of these twenty-somethings act out an era that I lived through ... and knowing that they thing of the '60s as ancient history -- it was depressing.

OT but this reminds me, will someone tell Trevor Noah to go back to his crew cut? We get it, he's black, yeah, but that afro looks terrible on that cutie.

The Cowsills

I saw the stage revival ten or so years ago and thought it was pretty fucking great.

I remember the nude scene at the end of the first act was a scandal. People went just to see peen onstage.

NOT the Hamilton of its time. HAIR has some really good music. It produced 4 or 5 top ten singles (covers by other artists). The only "song" I've ever heard of from Hamilton is one about someone only having one shot. Or getting shot. Or drinking shots. Who cares?

Who used to sing these misheard lyrics ?

“This is the dawning of the age of a hairy ass”

I met a boy called Frank Mills, on September fourth, right here, in front of the Waverly . . .

He has gold chains on his leather jacket, and on the back are written the words: "Mary" and "Mom" and "Hell's Angels" . . .

So please, if you see him, tell him Angela and I don't want the two dollars back; just him!

Is Good Morning Starshine the most nonsensical song ever ?

[quote]It's a rather crappy dated show, but it was the last musical to produce a plethora of number one hits.

But none from the OCR itself -- the hit singles were all versions recorded by other artists.

I loved it and knew every piece by heart. It was also a social thing because I hung with a couple of friends who loved it too. I saw the movie multiple times.

[quote]Who used to sing these misheard lyrics?

Absolutely no one.

My brother died in Viet Nam in '68. I just noticed that Burger's tombstone at the end of the movie has my brother's birth/death years, and he was 11 days younger than my brother at 22. I loved the stage show and movie, but appreciate the message of the movie more today.

I saw the play when a friend and I visited New York City a number of years ago. All the good familiar stuff, songs, etc. and during the nude scene a nicely hung guy on stage! Glad I saw the fable HAIR!.

I saw the Broadway revival a while back, and before that the version in LA with Steven Weber and Sam Harris. Unfortunately Marissa Jaret Winokur was also in it, and I had to see her nude. If I hadn't been gay already, that would have done it.

R24, I saw the LA production as well and was too busy looking at Steven and Sam to notice Marissa.

The original Aquarius singer, Ronnie Dyson, was gay.

I’ve never seen it on stage, but I love the movie. The ending always chokes me up.

According to James Rado, he and Ragni were long-term lovers.

It wasn't just Rado who said that.

My parents had the album so I listened to it as a teen, decades after it was released. Loved it! I really loved James Rado’s voice.

The movie was pretty terrible, though.

I loved the movie, It showed the hippies in the park having fun on dugs and sex. Making fun of the crusty ass east coast society. The main hippie guy flirting with the uppity rich chicks and stickin to tha man at the wedding. Great stuff. The evil empire killed the good guy in the end while he was trying to do a good deed for the rube who joined up willingly. They don't make em like that anymore.

Wasn’t the movie a flop ?

I went to a revival of HAIR in the 1980s . Worst play I’ve ever seen . Walked out after 10 minutes.

I don't know the facts about Music Theory nor about Minor Chords, Key Change and Modal Mixture.

But I think this first song 'Age of Aquarius' has some fascinating sounds that utilise that kind of music theory.

DL Easy chair art consumers where is your play.

It was exciting and challenging when it came out, with as much authenticity as a hippy antiwar song written in the Brill Building.

I wish Charlotte Rae's big song was in the film.

Fun songs.

I still sing "Frank Mills" and "What a Piece of Work Is Man," "Sodomy," "White Boys," "Black Boys."

None of the hits. Ugh. "Good Morning, Starshine," "Aquarius," "Let the Sun Shine In," "Easy to Be Hard." No.

I remember Treat Williams was gorgeous in the film version.

Was privileged to see the original production at the Geary Theater in San Francisco. Fantastic play. Fun songs, And a Very effective (at the time) presentation of anti-war sentiment.

It's no Jesus Christ Superstar

I was very pleasantly surprised when I saw the stage show. The ending was unexpectedly moving.

I went to see it in London (at The Vaults?) a few years back, and I left during intermission. I had just flown in from the States, was jet lagged, and could not be be bothered with all of that. I decided to give it a second chance, and found myself quite moved by the end. It's such a unique and weird little time capsule of a truly fascinating era of American history.

I saw the last Broadway revival when the whole cast travelled to London to play it on the West End.

I saw the original production on Broadway as a gayling and was disappointed the nudity was so fleeting.

I think that long hair on men, in general is experiencing a revival. I’m see a lot of old and young men with shoulder length hair. I’m so over the quiffs of the past few years. I like the longer hair on men.

I'm over the shaved sides that make everyone look like they are fighting in WWI.

I thought what we've been looking at these past few years was known as the Hitler Youth haircut, r47, ergo WWII.

The feyest, gayest, and yes, most bullied kid in my high school class was in the original Broadway cast and then the national tour.

My very liberal mom and dad were into all of the counter culture trappings o the late 60's, and that included Hair. Seeing the first big touring production of Hair at the Aquarius Theatre on Sunset Blvd with them and my brother was a family outing for us. I was nine at the time. My mom's from San Francisco, so a year prior on a trip up there she bought the B'way soundtrack at Tower Records, the iconic store that was near The Cannery and Fisherman's Wharf. So while the neighbor kids played the Julie Andrews movie soundtrack of The Sound of Music, my family had Hair blaring from the living room all the time. I knew (and still know) all of the lyrics and would flip through the program book from our night out all the time.

When the much discussed Nude Scene, as someone said upthread, it's at the end of the fir Act. I wasn't exactly fully focused on the the show at that moment, and it was staging was very subtle. It didn't announce itself; it appeared like a mirage. You could see it but it was lit for nighttime, and there were puffs of smoke and billowing scrims and tapestries slowly undulating everywhere.

I thought the movie was just wrong. It came out in 1979 and it was the wrong time, before there was any hippie-era revival of anything, and it had been given the Hollywood treatment, commercial and too squeaky clean. It wasn't edgy or counterculture at all. And I know Milos Forman directed it and he is talented, so I don't know what happened there.

I think of Rado and Ragni as One Hit Wonders, but Hair toured all over the world for decades, so I think they're doing ok.

[quote]But none from the OCR itself -- the hit singles were all versions recorded by other artists.

And that is the case with nearly every B'way musical. I'm sure there must be something out there, but I can't think of any OCR recording single that ever became a hit.

I loved the movie version so much, I've avoided seeing a stage production because I'm afraid it would greatly disappoint me.

I have a distant memory.

I associate it with Wilfrid Owen, r48, who was definitely WWI.

My high school did this in 1985, a few years before I arrived. A Catholic High School in suburban Chicago! No nudity. The director went to U of Minnesota, and was fond of avant garde theater. I have no idea how he managed to convince the school to allow this. We only did West Side Story and Drood, so maybe he had to scale back.

Also, Peer Gynt.

Peaky Blinders.

I was in a touring cast years ago and invited to the memorial Tribute to Radio a couple of weeks ago. It was very good, very pop, great voices until the end. This guy came out who had played Claude in one of the tours. At least two octaves lower than the original he began to belt out the beginning of the Flesh Failures, segued into Manchester, England stopping abruptly to begin let the Sun shine as a funeral dirge, 50 former cast members joined him. It was stunning. I had always been told it was impossible to cry and sing at the same time but tears ran down his face and he stayed in key. After a standing ovation that would not stop he came out to sing Where do I go, lyrically appropriate ending why do we live? Why do we die? No idea who he was, but he belongs on the West End, one of the most powerful performers I had ever seen. No program, everyone was introduced except him he came out and said..."once upon a time I was Claude." and began.

[Quote] I had always been told it was impossible to cry and sing at the same time

Faggot, please!

Rado, not radio....damn spell check

It wasn't Paul Nicholas, was it?

[quote]B'way soundtrack

Oh, dear.

"One a Day" vitamins is currently using the Nina Simone version of "I Got Life" in their latest commercial.

Best song from Hair.

There are couple of different recordings by Nina Simone of "I Got The Life." Did she record it for an album and then later a new recording for a single?

*I Got Life

"Easy to be Hard" was a cool pop song with a classic American Songbook vibe.

Shirley Bassey's over the top version:

Jennifer Warnes - Easy To Be Hard. She was in the LA company, I think.

R40...I started working at the Geary right after Hair closed. It financed ACT in the beginning.

I loved Twyla Tharp's movie choreography which was all the rage in the late 70's. Everybody really looked like they were tripping and had the 'Electric Blues'.

^^^ I didn't realize that was Twyla as the minister in the dream sequence. Wow!

Even Andy Williams and The Osmonds covered The Age Of Aquarius. Everyone was trying to be hip and groovy during that time.

R37 I don’t think the theme song to Facts of Life really would fit well in the middle of Hair???

The original stage show and the movie are two different animals, sort of like the stage and film versions of Cabaret. Both are excellent but not comparable. The film flopped as it came out at exactly the wrong time (late 70s). The 60s and its attitudes were dead but not far enough in the past to be nostalgic. If it had come out in the late 80s or early 90s, it would have been a huge hit.

I never understood why the makers of Viagra didn't use "Easy To Be Hard" in their commercials.

Knotted, polka-dotted Twisted, beaded, braided Powdered, flowered, and confettied Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied

I love this number

No R60. It was not a known actor. He left the business after his tour of Hair and changed professions. The guy looked about 45 but performed with more depth and soul than anyone I had heard in years.

Only saw film version of Hair, it was on PBS one Saturday night years ago.

Wasn't very impressed.

How one does miss horseback riding in Central Park.

Claremont Riding Academy on UWS closed years ago, and property redeveloped .

[quote] I don’t think the theme song to Facts of Life really would fit well in the middle of Hair???

She sang "My Conviction." That's why she gets all the reaction shots in "I Got Life."

The definitive versions.

R47 Wow i didn't realize hitler had tattoos on his neck.

R57, use your contacts to find out who it was! That’s fascinating.

I am trying. Total unknown, to me at least was the best performance of the night.

Ellen Foley, the blonde in "Black Boys," had just played Sheila in the Broadway revival. I wonder if she crossed paths on set with the movie Sheila, Beverly D'Angelo. Awkward.

R91 But what is?

Looking forward to R91's answer.

Fuck, I'm still waiting for R91's post.

.... Bump

^What a wasted opportunity

My Kentucky Baptist grandparents were treated with tickets to Hair when they visited him in NYC around 1970. He had another engagement and sent them on their own to the theater. They were taken by surprise by the nude scene, but they had a good sense of humor about it and grandma told about it for years afterward.

[quote] ^What a wasted opportunity

So, typical DL. They promise but don't deliver.

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Is Berger in Sex and the City a nod to Berger in Hair?

Galt MacDermot also gave us this.

"Hair" launched Ronny Dyson. He's the one who introduced "Aquarius" in the original show.

His first hit was pretty great. His voice soars.

I saw a community theater production in the 80s. The nude scene featured a couple of guys with large, thick patches of pubic hair. I wondered if it was a criterion in the audition process.

Did Treat Williams and Ace Young go full frontal in their productions of Hair? Big bushes of hair?

r100 Treat Williams was in the movie. There was no full frontal at all.

^^^ Except him peeing on a paper in Central Park.

I have of late But wherefore I know not Lost all my mirth This goodly frame The earth Seems to me a sterile promontory This most excellent canopy The air-- look you! This brave o'erhanging firmament This majestical roof Fretted with golden fire Why it appears no other thing to me Than a foul and pestilent congregation Of vapors

Did anyone see Groff do it Shakespeare in the Park?

Galt MacDermott also gave Stephen Geoffreys his Tony nominated role before Stephen decided he'd prefer gay porn.

Yes, I saw Groff in the Shakespeare production and thank god they replaced him. He was awful. He played the role as if he were in a Toothpaste commercial. Smiling his way through it. Completely wrong in every way.

As much as I love Gavin Creel's singing voice, he didn't make much of an impression on me. Will Swenson was the standout in that production

Claude is a tough role and Creel was not up to it. It has to be more than well sung, it has to be felt.

bump 57

Bump for R57 or the 57th bump?

I skipped jr high with a friend and took the train into the city to see the original cast. After the show we ran into the lovey Ronnie Dyson and others in the cast at a deli. They graciously took two 13 yr old back to Penn to make sure we got back to LI safely! One local theater group in Saycille LI put on the show and I took my teenage daughter and her friend to see it