Frank Mills from HAIR

I think just a girl missing a random man.

isn't it based on a real ad in a paper?

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I think the song is about a guy named Frank Mills. :) Crissie randomly met him, liked him, and wants to see him again. However, she has no way of contacting him, so she is hoping that she will bump into him again.

isn't it based on a real ad in a paper?

I posted this in the Hair thread yesterday. I think it's really interesting. If you click on the link, you will see a page from a 1966 copy of Rave magazine. If you read the entire "Boys and Girls Lost and Found" section, you will see that it is the source material for the song, "Frank Mills." Pretty neat.

http://www.newlinetheatre.com/frankmills.pdf

Updated On: 2/15/10 at 11:42 PM

hahaa, that's so cool! and even cooler the first thing I saw was the question about "what pop star shares my birthday, April 2nd?"....that's my birthday :) haha.

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I think I mentioned before that my one objection to the current production is that it is simply "too big" and "overproduced". I've seen some splendid very simple small productions that I liked better. The number Frank Mills is one example. I love it when the girl singing i just sits in a simple spotlight and sings that delightfully simple little story about her "love" and in a clear but simple, honest voice. In the current production, the number gets "staged". She's all over the stage and sings in a real character voice making her much more of a ditz or something weird. It just seemed they were trying to hard to make something of one of the simplest and most "honest" numbers in the show. My belief is that Hair should be about this simple but HONEST group of people from the 60's. I kept feeling they were being made fun of and pointed out as being very hypocritical and sort of shallow and sometimes even mean spirited rather than simply shown as the true-intentioned people (Love Children) they were. Maybe you had to live then and know real Hippies to understand what I'm saying.