Just turned on the tv in time to catch the title tune and "Let the Sunshine In"
from the Broadway HAIR revival that has made people under 40 think they "get
it."
They don't!
It's too damned CLEAN!!!
Choreography!! Too-pretty people! Pressed costumes! Make up! Sho-biz!!
Well done but---- not 1968, folks!! Not "HAIR!"
So much of this generation doesn't even KNOW there's "a war" because NO ONE is
MAKING them GO! That's what "HAIR" is about!!!
I had friends in the original L.A. company of this real, live "happening."
They said that on opening night that Tommy Smothers, one of the producers,
passed out joints to the cast, told them to all light up and then --- hit the
stage!! It was REAL.
The revival seems beautifully done. But it AIN'T "real." Nobody passed out
anything, obviously, except teeth-whitener!
And Conan obviously hated it because it (thank God) took the attention away
from him!
Some shows should just be left alone.
Joe B in NOLA
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