HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

Performing at Andrews Living Arts Studio (Jul 12 - Aug 11)

Runtime: 2 Hours 30 Minutes

Synopsis

PREVIEWS: July 12th, 13th and 14th at 8:30pm and Sunday Matinee July 15th at 2pm.

HAIR puts rock music and the culture that went with it on stage. The show has a strong effect on everyone, and acts as a bridge between generations and viewpoints. What looks like incredible chaos is actually organized chaos. Phenomenal musical numbers include Aquarius, Good Morning Starshine, I Believe in Love, Hair, I Got Life, What a Piece of Work Is Man and Hippie Life. This show has a vitality, a timelessness and a meaning that outlives the late 1960's and early 1970's in America.

WARNING: Adult Content; Contains Nudity.
Under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
No one under 16 admitted.

Performed "outdoors", under the stars at ALA Studio.*

Feel FREE to bring your own lawn chair or cushion.**

*Performances in our outdoor courtyard, unless bad weather forces us to move inside our theater where your own lawn chair or cushion will not fit.
**Theater seats or folding chairs will be provided for those who don't wish to bring their own lawn chair or cushion.

Intended for mature audiences only.
Under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
No one under 16 admitted.

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. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy. The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of "rock musical", using a racially integrated cast, and inviting the audience onstage for a "Be-In" finale.

Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their friends struggle to balance their young lives, loves and the sexual revolution with their rebellion against the war and their conservative parents and society. Ultimately, Claude must decide whether to resist the draft as his friends have done, or to succumb to the pressures of his parents (and conservative America) to serve in Vietnam, compromising his pacifistic principles and risking his life.

WINNER of The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, 2008-2009.

SONGS:

Act I
Aquarius - Tribe and soloist
Donna - Berger and Tribe
Hashish - Tribe
Sodomy - Woof and Tribe
I'm Black/Colored Spade - Hud, Woof, Berger, Claude and Tribe
Manchester England - Claude and Tribe
Ain't Got No - Woof, Hud, Dionne and Tribe
I Believe in Love - Sheila and Tribe trio
Air - Jeanie, Crissy and Dionne
Initials (L.B.J.) - Tribe
I Got Life - Claude and Tribe
Going Down - Berger and Tribe
Hair - Claude, Berger, and Tribe
My Conviction - Margaret Mead (tourist lady)
Easy to be Hard - Sheila
Don't Put It Down - Berger, Woof and male Tribe member
Frank Mills - Crissy
Be-In (Hare Krishna) - Tribe
Where Do I Go? - Claude and Tribe

Act II
Electric Blues - Tribe quartet
Black Boys - Tribe sextet (three male, three female)
White Boys - Tribe Supremes trio
Walking in Space - Tribe
Yes, I's Finished/Abie Baby - Abraham Lincoln and Tribe trio (Hud and two men)
Three-Five-Zero-Zero - Tribe
What a Piece of Work Is Man - Tribe duo
Good Morning Starshine - Sheila and Tribe
The Bed - Tribe
Aquarius (reprise) - Tribe
Manchester England (Reprise) - Claude and Tribe
Eyes Look Your Last - Claude and Tribe
The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In) - Claude, Sheila, Dionne and Tribe