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[rhanisee]

It kind of shows how america has become a country of medicated, brainwashed sheeple, a bunch of zombies in a surreal, life damping machine-time-future, contrasting that with the life and hope of the show in the 1960's. Luckily america still has hippies.

[GirlCalledMike]

I kind of hate this.

[Rainbowskye1968]

AWESOME INTERPRETATION!!! I'm completely speechless.Just unbelievably cool. Massive kudos to everyone involved. :D

[rafasuv]

Looks and sounds like a mental institution. Not like hippie freedom musical. Apesta

[coolsteven2]

i didnt like the tone change. it was more depressing. xD It is a nice change to it though

[TheYelloDart13]

Who are these idiots who are saying, "No, sorry, i don't like any sort of change on a musical about change." This production was a piece of art, not just a revival of an old musical about hippies...

[waninghope]

This is not refreshing, progresive even to a modern audience with some brain matter. It is stale , contrite and boring. I want my 3;05 minutes back. What the hell is this!!??

[RadarGuidedVermin]

What is this garbage?

[kathyassa]

are you unglu????????????????

[kdoismadeofbacon]

Where are the hippies?

[brakdown]

I love you.

[aigbinosun]

Wow what a wonderful fascinating way to tell a story... made me look at the show in a totally different way. Great Work.

[LuciaCorak]

I agree karmuno. What is the point of a show if it languishes in the dusty corners. To keep a show running and successful you always have to look for it's relevance and it's place in a new society. Life is at the heart of theatre, and when a productions does not respect that fact, that's when it fails.

[djapunkcabaret]

I totaly agree with Karmuno and not ShowBizComic - Bringing a new direction keeps the musical alive and I think this one in particular is brilliant!

[ShowBizComic]

A dreadful travesty, a self-indulgent, mindless destruction of the spirit of "Hair", a sacrilege, hateful, smug, love-less and pointless. This production has already vanished for all time. How dare this director take a beautiful show and smear it with his emptyso-called "vision". This is pure twaddle from a self-absorbed. most pretentious "artist". Fuck with Shakespeare, fuck with with whatever you like, but do NOT fuck with "Hair", you idiot from hell.

[karmuno]

Actually, "Hair" is one of the most "fucked with" musicals of all time, going through much revision and evolution even during the original off- and on-Broadway runs. The "spirit" of Hair lies as much in constant growth and evolution as it does in the values embodied by the hippies. "Hair" was always meant to be a musical about "now," and it loses that spirit if it is just left to stagnate. You may not agree with the production, but they tried something new to speak to a modern audience.

[RennieBee]

yeah. i agree. sorry. can't have hair without hippies.

[abw226]

Art is (at its core) about exploration. To suggest that HAIR is exempt from that exploration is to remove this beautiful piece from its rightful place amongst the greatest works of art. Open your mind.. that is the message of HAIR.

[VVsept]

I don't get it...

They do not look like hippies..

[Bolender]

Having seen little more than this, I am not sure that I get it either. However, I can see one rather obvious interpretation: People who want a radical change in society are usually categorized as mentally ill and punished with "treatments." I even once heard a psychologist say that social activists are mentally ill. I can see this production as a protest against that attitude.

[VVsept]

whoa,,,

I didn't see it like that.

although,

i much prefer them as hippies.

[dm5401]

This sounds to me like something I would hear at a funeral service. Where is the energy of the time that it represents? Fortunately that is just my opinion and someone else will love it.

[nylilhotman]

just saw the new york central park 40th anny. and it was sooo good. i was shocked at how contemporary and dated can mix well.

THIS, on the other hand, is really interesting....and GOOD Too.

[tardboner]

That production in Central Park was probably the worst stage performance of any kind I have ever seen in my life, and that includes dancers on cubes at the Roxy and bathhouses around the world.

[robertg330]

All I can say is OH MY GOD! All I have seen is the opening number of this interpretation of Hair and I'm amazed. Where was this done? Who produced and directed it?

[nycgrl4ever]

NYU Tisch 2006

[MrLomaLoma]

I have more now, I am posting them...w00t

[snarkmistress]

Drew, you're killing me. You have GOT TO PUT UP LAMPERT'S SOLO FROM WALKING IN SPACE. Please please please.

[LaurenS419]

more more more please! I'm fascinated.

[snarkmistress]

Man I wish Ruben had done the cast recording.  That show was amazing.

[snarkmistress]

really? because if you saw the show then you got a program, and if you read the director's notes in the program, he spelled it out for all the people who might not have wanted to attempt to understand it on their own and just right it off as being different for the sake of being different.

whether it worked or not, or whether you LIKED it or not, doesn't mean it was pointless.

[elbuzz]

Bravo-! I saw this--my kid's in it--we found it moving + very relevant--one of the HAIR authors was in the audience and was crazily enthusiastic about this interpretation--the closing scene was just a killer and elicited tears--to those who don't "get" the baldness and spartan look, well, sorry. Watch your Justin Timberlake video + eat a Pop Tart.

[LaurenS419]

preach. it's amazing.

[hoser2288]

Wow, this is great! How did you get this, I thought they werent allowing recordings? Do you have any more?

[Starryeyez88]

you don't get it then. it's far from completely pointless, it's completely relevant and highly commendable. this is incredible. so upset i missed it! any more?

[seanyboy804]

do you have any more?