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Hair

Let the sun shine! This 1968 rock musical remains relevant as ever as it celebrates community, identity, politics, peace, and what it means to be a young person in a changing world.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1960s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Drugs, Nudity/Partial Nudity, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language
  • Orchestra Size: Small/Combo

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music (1968)
    Winner! Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical (2009)
    Winner! Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical (2009)
The American tribal love rock musical Hair celebrates the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory.

To an infectiously energetic rock beat, the show wows audiences with songs like "Aquarius," "Good Morning, Starshine," "Hair," "I Got Life" and "Let The Sun Shine." Exploring ideas of identity, community, global responsibility and peace, Hair remains relevant as ever as it examines what it means to be a young person in a changing world.
REVIEWS:

"Hair is more than just a musical: it is a social and cultural phenomenon, a jubilant assertion of life and freedom and a cry of protest...a vibrant, joyous piece of living theatre."

Michael Billington, The Guardian

"A smile-inducing celebration of life and freedom."

Joe Dziemianowicz, The Daily News

"After 50 years, Hair has lost none of its racy style, credibility or rebellious energy. It’s a joyously vigorous, trippy and effusive festival of rock which sets out to agitate and invigorate... Hair is bigger than ever."

Samuel Payne, Entertainment Focus

"It is so likable. So new, so fresh, and so unassuming...the frankest show in town... the show is the first Broadway musical in some time to have the authentic voice of today rather than the day before yesterday."

Clive Barnes, The New York Times

"Though much has changed between 1968 and 2018, Hair continues to be relevant. Many of the cultural divides that began to express themselves in 1968 seem to still exist today...Perhaps this is why Hair has continued to be produced so frequently."

Peter Libbey, The New York Times


Premiere Production:

Hair debuted off-Broadway at Joseph Papp's Public Theater on October 17, 1967. The show was an instant sensation, moving to a second venue and playing 144 performances. On April 29, 1968 Hair opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre, starring James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Lynn Kellogg and Melba Moore. Breaking all theatre conventions, the show made national headlines and played for 1,750 performances. The show returned to Broadway in 1977 and in 2009, starring Gavin Creel, Will Swenson, Caissie Levy and Sasha Allen.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Room for Extras, Roles for Teens, Roles for Multicultural Casting, Expandable casting, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Role(s) for Black Actor(s)
  • Chorus Size: Large

  • Principals
    BERGER
    WOOF
    HUD
    CLAUDE
    JEANIE
    DIONNE
    CRISSY
    SHEILA
    MARGARET MEAD
    HUBERT

    Other Members of the Tribe
    RONNY
    LEATA
    PAUL
    WALTER
    STEVE
    HIRAM
    SUZANNAH
    MARY
    EMMARETTA
    DIANE
    MARJORIE
    LINDA
    NATALIE

    … who play the following characters in the course of the show:
    3 Moms, 3 Dads, 3 High School Principals, 2 Policemen, Electric Blues Quartet (Oldsters), White Girls Trio, Black Boys Trio, “The Supremes” Trio, Army Sergeant, Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Calvin Coolidge, Clark Gable, Scarlett O’Hara, Aretha Franklin, Colonel Custer, Shoeshine Boy, 3 Buddhist Monks, 1 Thousand-Year-Old Monk, 3 Catholic Nuns, 3 Astronauts, 3 Chinese, 3 Guerillas, 1 Native American Indian and Others

    • Available Material

    Name Price
    Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

    1 x Piano Conductor's Score
    1 x Libretto/Chorus-Vocal Parts

    		$24.00
    Rehearsal Material Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

    30 x Libretto/Chorus-Vocal Parts
    1 x Piano Conductor's Score

    		$550.00 +$135.00/pm
    Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

    1 Baritone Saxophone (Flute, Piccolo & Clarinet)
    1 Trumpet I
    1 Trumpet II
    1 Trumpet III (optional)
    1 Trombone (optional)

    1 Bass (electric)
    1 Drums (trap drum set)
    1 Percussion:
    Bongo Drums
    Conga Drums
    Bell Tree
    Marimba
    Tambourine
    Wood Block
    Temple Blocks
    Cabasa
    Maracas
    Gong
    Siren
    Castanets
    Ratchet
    Slapstick
    Indian Drums (optional)
    Quica (Lion's roar)
    or Claves
    or Bongos
    Tubose (Scarper)
    or Tambourine
    Tower Clock Chime (sfx)

    2 Guitars I & II:
    I: acoustic & electric
    II: electric & bass

    1 Piano (Electric or Synthesizer)
    Piano-Conductor's score sent with rehearsal material.

    		$350.00 +$135.00/pm

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