![]() ![]() HAIR weaves together electric guitars, Timothy Leary, and Allen Ginsberg – but also acoustic ballads, a dream ballet, and Shakespeare. In the second half of the twentieth century, the sound and happy ending of The Sound of Music (1959) gave way to the rock musical requiem of the AIDS crisis with RENT (1996). The focus on the nude scene somewhat obscures the theatrical achievement of HAIR. To put the shock in perspective, in the same year as HAIR opened at the Biltmore, you could also see 1776 at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers Theatre) and Neil Simon’s Promises, Promises at the Shubert. At one point…a number of men and women (I should have counted) are seen totally nude and full, as it were, face.” And there it was, the nude scene. However, a great many four-letter words, such as ‘love,’ are used very freely. In his ApNew York Times review of the Broadway version, Clive Barnes wrote that he received letters urging him to “warn readers” about the content of the show and to “Spell out what is happening on stage.” He responded coyly, “Spell it out, I cannot, for this remains a family newspaper. After it was reworked and transferred to Broadway the following year, the show became even more conceptual as feeling was elevated and the original plot was cut down significantly. While New York had an established and growing experimental performance scene, the show about a tribe of pot-smoking free-loving hippies during the Vietnam War era was utterly new. There was no warning when HAIR opened off-Broadway in 1967. The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In) - Claude, Sheila, Dionne and Tribe Good Morning Starshine - Sheila and Tribe What a Piece of Work Is Man - Ronnie and Walter Walking in Space - Dionne, Steve, Leata, Jeanie, Ronnie and Tribeĭon't Put It Down - Berger, Woof and Steve My Conviction - Margaret Mead (tourist lady) I Believe in Love - Sheila and Tribe trio I'm Black - Woof, Hud, Berger, Claude and TribeĪin't Got No - Woof, Hud, Dionne and Tribe We seek to foster excellent creative research, scholarship and professional practice by creating a welcoming environment, ethical recruitment practices, and a diverse student body who will have lives of awareness and understanding through their creative research, teaching, practicing and advocating for others in a diverse world.ĭetailed information on our DEI initiatives can be found here: We believe inclusivity and diversity in our workplace should reflect the increasing multicultural and global society in which we live. We recognize and value diversity in all forms, including age, ethnicity, family structure, gender identity, national origin, race religion, spirituality, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and veteran status. ![]() We are indebted to these indigenous peoples for their stewardship, both past and present, of this beautiful land. We acknowledge that we live, work, and create art on the traditional lands of the Tsalagi peoples (now the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians) and the Tsoyaha peoples (Yuchi and Muscogee Creek). ![]()
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