Post Gazette: "In the end, you're invited onstage to join the tribe in a celebration of the tune-in, turn-on, drop-out musical 'Hair,' but not before you're hit with a reminder that the peace and love generation was born out of an unpopular war and a drafted American military. Sorry to start with such a downer, man.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
'60s rock musical 'Hair' is fun but a little tangled at Heinz Hall
Post Gazette: "In the end, you're invited onstage to join the tribe in a celebration of the tune-in, turn-on, drop-out musical 'Hair,' but not before you're hit with a reminder that the peace and love generation was born out of an unpopular war and a drafted American military. Sorry to start with such a downer, man.
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We did a production of "Hair" in my freshman year of college (thanks to terrified campus officials, our Nude Scene was done in strong back light, so ultimately it lost a lot of its impact) and though I never have since I've always wanted to see a professional production of it. Though its scene is pretty solidly set in the Vietnam era, the theme can fill the void of any war and it seems no American generation will not know a war. I suppose that's morbidly heartening, as it likely means we'll always another production of "Hair" to look forward to and that it will always be poignant.
Hair is a really hard show to do well. I saw Hair in the park two years ago. It was fantastic, because it was so effortless. I went with my mother, which was both awkward, and insightful. She said that it was very weird to have people of my generation telling her the story of her generations. What I would like to see would be a production of Hair that is about the war in Iraq, I think that this could be very intriguing. Hair in some way has to be translated, and I think in the production I saw it was. Hair is also weird because it was made 10 years after the 60's and so it was people who were trying to re-live their glory days. The production of Hair that we do will be interesting, because it is in the Rauh, every time I've heard of hair being done it is outside or in a large space. Also never see the movie, never try to give Hair a plot.
I saw "Hair" on Sunday and I've got to say they did an amazing job. Zoe said that "Hair" is hard to do well and I must agree that it is. Because of the loose plot line it can be hard for the audience to follow if you don't already know what is going on, and on a tour this is more likely to happen as the actors burn out on the road. That is nothing like what I saw Sunday. Everyone on that stage was 100% and they were completely inviting to the audience to join there fun. Berger and Claude were fantastic and their energy was amazing. They made the show seem like a party that we were all invited to. I think that is just what "Hair" should be and I am glad I was a part of it.
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