Hair has been revived several times since its original 1968 Broadway run, most recently with a celebrity-studded staging at the Hollywood Bowl, and earned a film adaptation from Milos Forman in 1979. It tackles the Vietnam War, drugs, race, gender and sexual identity in a manner few mainstream musicals did at the time. The brief nudity in most stagings was also rather revolutionary when it first debuted.
The 2009 revival, starring Gavin Creel, Will Swenson and Caissie Levy, went on to win the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. The national tour of the production played a limited Broadway engagement in 2011.
The show follows a tribe of young, free-spirited hippies in New York, who resist authority and the looming Vietnam War through a Be-In and draft card burning. The funk/rock score includes such musical theatre standards as “Aquarius,” “Good Morning Starshine,” and “The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In).”
