Dissenting opinion on Hair — Page 3

Going back to the "Frank Mills" number, can someone explain this scene to me? The only production I've seen of Hair was a high school one (an odd choice for a high school, right?) and the number was cut. Though I haven't looked much into it, I don't really get the song...

Basically, Frank Mills is a song Chrissy sings about this bum that she met and fell in love with. She gave him some money and it seems she didn't see him again but she's still waiting for him.

"I mean, Kacie Sheik's character is sort of mentioned once, and then she's just there for the rest of the show. Normally I think that would be bother me but because the show is done in such a non-traditional style, that it doesn't really bother me. The whole show is sort of disjointed, and it's interesting to see these glimpses into the characters lives. "

It always seemed to me Jeanie was the narrator of the show. I don't really like the way Kacie Sheik plays her. I much more enjoyed Miriam Shor in the 2001 version at City Centers. In that production, and in the original, I believe, Jeanie only really showed up whenever anything needed to be explained or when something needed to be commented on, IE the whole who's hung up on who monologue. Even Air is commenting on the pollution problem.

I'm kind of sad my favorite line of hers got shortened in the park version, and I'm assuming this version too "I told my mother I was in New York, she said stay in New York. I told my mother I was pregnant, she said stay pregnant."

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I had always interpreted that the eponymous Frank Mills was never seen again because he was drafted.

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Diane Paulus isn't a good director.

Time Out NY has a photo essay on the cast.

Naked.
The cast of Hair, naked.

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