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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
The album charted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the last Broadway cast album to do so. Hair ' s cast album stayed at No. 1 for 13 weeks in 1969. [2] The recording also received a Grammy Award in 1969 for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album [3] and sold nearly 3 million copies in the U.S. by December 1969. [4]
Shelley Plimpton (born February 27, 1947) is an American former actress and Broadway performer. She is perhaps best known for originating the role of Crissy in the off-Broadway production of Hair, a role she resumed when the production moved to Broadway in 1968.
Shortly before “Hair” opened at Broadway’s Biltmore Theater on April 29, 1968 — 50 years ago this month — Variety reported, “The musical is vehemently anti-establishment and pro ...
Tony Award-winning Broadway star Gavin Creel died Monday, ... Gavin Creel and the cast of "Hair" perform at the Tony Awards in New York City on June 7, 2009.
The musical’s title song begins as character Claude slowly croons his reason for his long hair, as tribe-mate Berger joins in singing they "don't know." [1] They lead the tribe, singing "Give me a head with hair," "as long as God can grow it," [1] listing what they want in a head of hair and their uses for it.
Famed Broadway producer Michael Butler has died. He was 95.Butler died peacefully on Monday at the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda, California, according to an obituary released on ...
Michael Butler (November 26, 1926 – November 7, 2022) was an American theatrical producer best known for bringing the rock musical Hair from the Public Theater to Broadway in 1968. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During his time as Hair producer he was dubbed "the hippie millionaire" by the press. [ 3 ]