"The most serious issue Hair confronts, which takes over its center in the second act, is the Vietnam War...Most important here is the pairing of "3-5-0-0" (referring to the number of Marines who landed in Vietnam in March 1965) with "What a Piece of Work is Man," derived from Shakespeare...with ...
Clearly this is a critique on the typical experimental genre and how it still falls back on the same boring love story. Of course it's a bit painful to watch/listen to!... Love is the American religion, right after buying things.
"The most serious issue Hair confronts, which takes over its center in the second act, is the Vietnam War...Most important here is the pairing of "3-5-0-0" (referring to the number of Marines who landed in Vietnam in March 1965) with "What a Piece of Work is Man," derived from Shakespeare...with ...