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The HAIR Archives at Michael Butler.com, curator Nina Machlin Dayton, containing numerous historical documents about the musical

The nudity was optional for the performers. The French cast was "the nudest" of the foreign groups, while the London cast "found nudity the hardest to achieve". [61] The Swedish cast was reluctant to disrobe, but in Copenhagen, the tribe thought the nudity too tame and decided to walk naked up and down the aisle during the show's prelude. [47] In some early performances, the Germans played their scene behind a big sheet labeled "CENSORED". [47] [61] Original Broadway cast member Natalie Mosco said, "I was dead set against the nude scene at first, but I remembered my acting teacher having said that part of acting is being private in public. So I did it." [104] According to Melba Moore, "It doesn't mean anything except what you want it to mean. We put so much value on clothing. . ... It's like so much else people get uptight about." [105] Donna Summer, who was in the German production, said that "it was not meant to be sexual. ... We stood naked to comment on the fact that society makes more of nudity than killing." [7] Rado said that "being naked in front of an audience, you're baring your soul. Not only the soul but the whole body was being exposed. It was very apt, very honest and almost necessary." [7] Music [ edit ] In these two measures of "What a Piece of Work Is Man", the red notes indicate a weak syllable on a strong beat.

Hair effectively marked the end of stage censorship in the United Kingdom. [145] London's stage censor, the Lord Chamberlain, originally refused to license the musical, and the opening was delayed until Parliament passed a bill stripping him of his licensing power. [145] In Munich, authorities threatened to close the production if the nude scene remained; however, after a local Hair spokesman declared that his relatives had been marched nude into Auschwitz, the authorities relented. [47] In Bergen, Norway, local citizens formed a human barricade to try to prevent the performance. [47]

Judd Apatow (director and writer), Steve Carell (writer) (August 11, 2005). The 40 Year Old Virgin (Motion picture). Universal Pictures. Archived from the original on October 25, 2007 . Retrieved April 11, 2008. Because of the universality of its pacifist theme, Hair continues to be a popular choice for high-school and university productions. [34] Amateur productions of Hair are also popular worldwide. [257] In 2002, Peter Jennings featured a Boulder, Colorado, high school production of Hair for his ABC documentary series In Search of America. [258] A September 2006 community theater production at the 2,000-seat Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, was praised by original producer Michael Butler, who said it was "one of the best Hairs I have seen in a long time." [259] Another example of a recent large-scale amateur production is the Mountain Play production at the 4,000-seat Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre in Mount Tamalpais State Park in Mill Valley, California, in the spring of 2007. [260] Legacy [ edit ] If the New York event didn’t work with your schedule, then you have another opportunity to experience Barbercon, this time in Dallas. This one-day event includes live hair tutorials, product demonstrations, a barber battle, and more.Songs from the musical have been featured in films and television episodes. For example, in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the character Willy Wonka welcomed the children with lyrics from "Good Morning Starshine". [249] "Aquarius" was performed in the final episode of Laverne and Shirley in 1983, where the character Carmine moves to New York City to become an actor, and auditions for Hair. [250] "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" was also performed in the final scene in the film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, [251] and Three Dog Night's recording of "Easy to Be Hard" was featured in the first part of David Fincher's film Zodiac. [252] On the Simpsons episode " The Springfield Files", the townspeople, Leonard Nimoy, Chewbacca, Dana Scully and Fox Mulder all sing "Good Morning Starshine". [253] The episode " Hairography" of the show Glee includes a much-criticized mash-up of the songs "Hair" and " Crazy in Love" by Beyoncé. [254] In addition, Head of the Class featured a two-part episode in 1990 where the head of the English department is determined to disrupt the school's performance of Hair. [255] The continued popularity of Hair is seen in its number ten ranking in a 2006 BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "[United Kingdom]'s Number One Essential Musicals". [256] a b c d e f g h Haun, Harry. "Age of Aquarius", Playbill, April 2009, from Hair at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, p. 7 Hair makes many references to Shakespeare's plays, especially Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, and, at times, takes lyrical material directly from Shakespeare. [64] For example, the lyrics to the song "What a Piece of Work Is Man" are from Hamlet (II:scene2) and portions of "Flesh Failures" ("the rest is silence") are from Hamlet's final lines. In "Flesh Failures/Let The Sun Shine In", the lyrics "Eyes, look your last!/ Arms, take your last embrace! And lips, O you/ The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss" are from Romeo and Juliet (V: iii, 111–14). [92] According to Miller, the Romeo suicide imagery makes the point that, with our complicity in war, we are killing ourselves. [64]

The music did not resonate with everyone. Leonard Bernstein remarked "the songs are just laundry lists" [110] and walked out of the production. [111] Richard Rodgers could only hear the beat and called it "one-third music". [110] John Fogerty said, " Hair is such a watered down version of what is really going on that I can't get behind it at all." [112] Gene Lees, writing for High Fidelity, stated that John Lennon found it "dull", and he wrote, "I do not know any musician who thinks it's good." [99] Songs [ edit ] Year by Year - 2009". Tony Awards. Archived from the original on April 28, 2018 . Retrieved April 27, 2018.Pola Rapaport (Director) and Wolfgang Held (Director). (July 24, 2007). Hair: Let the Sunshine In. [Documentary]. Blinding Light Inc., Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), arte. Retrieved on May 26, 2008. Year by Year - 1969". Tony Awards. Archived from the original on January 21, 2018 . Retrieved April 27, 2018. Brantley, Ben (August 8, 2008). "" Hair: Letting the Sunshine In, and the Shadows" Ben Brantley, nytimes.com, August 8, 2008". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 12, 2008 . Retrieved August 8, 2008.