HAIR QUESTION
HAIR QUESTION
isingbaritone
Understudy Joined: 7/18/06
#1HAIR QUESTION
Posted: 3/11/09 at 7:57amI searched and couldn't find this. Is there nudity in the new production of HAIR?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#2re: HAIR QUESTION
Posted: 3/11/09 at 8:01am
Yes. At the end of the first act. But it is done in shadows and is very tasteful and well-done.
Updated On: 3/11/09 at 08:01 AM
isingbaritone
Understudy Joined: 7/18/06
#2re: HAIR QUESTION
Posted: 3/11/09 at 8:00pm
So its ok to take high school students too? I just don't want to get fired..... 
#3re: HAIR QUESTION
Posted: 3/11/09 at 8:02pmI wouldn't take them to this show. It's too inappropriate for them. Sure they are well aware of the naked body but for a school trip it is not good.
isingbaritone
Understudy Joined: 7/18/06
#4re: HAIR QUESTION
Posted: 3/11/09 at 8:05pmits not a school trip...... its a show that a few students are going to see on their own during a school trip, but its not a show we are all seeing... I just wasnt sure how much you see...
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#5re: HAIR QUESTION
Posted: 3/11/09 at 8:09pmMaybe I'm just a blue-state hippie-dippie, but I think there's absolutely nothing in "Hair" that high school students shouldn't be allowed to see...not all parents would feel the same way, however. I say, if it's possible at this point, let the parents know that some students might be going to see "Hair" and make them aware of some of the material in it. This is a special show that young people need to see...just give parents the option to use their own discretion.
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#6re: HAIR QUESTION
Posted: 3/12/09 at 5:41am
It's not a matter of whether the students SHOULD see it...it's a matter of whether the school should BACK it. AND a matter of family opinions. Most parents will blindly give permission to whatever a school offers....and then be upset (justified or not) AFTER the fact.
I often encourage my students to go see things that I would not BRING them to as a school official.
I would think the drug use and the sex situations might be more to question (from a school setting) than the one dimly lit and tasteful nude scene.
I've personally taken a few of my students to see Spring Awakening -- but as a friend of the family and with parental permission -- but would never have taken my entire drama club. I will probably offer to do the same thing for HAIR. But it won't be on one of our trips.
Next week AUGUST is one of the shows my HS drama club chose to see....in order to get an "OK" from my admin, I had to send home letters to explaing the mature nature of the language and the situations giving the family the oppoortunity the pull out of the trip. Not a single one did.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
isingbaritone
Understudy Joined: 7/18/06
#7re: HAIR QUESTION
Posted: 3/12/09 at 7:31am
I understand and thank you for all the comments! I just wasn't sure how much nudity you did see....
#8re: HAIR QUESTION
Posted: 3/12/09 at 9:36am
The nudity is brief, done in shadows (although you do see everything), and not sexual in nature.
I work in a high school too and you might be more concerned about the drug use..as far as what parents might complain about.
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