Hair Reviews

[Rentfan931]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 12:13am

Tonight the Broadway revival of the hit musical HAIR opens at the Al Hirschfeld theatre. Best of luck to the cast and crew. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/127859.html

I wanted to beat Limelight Mike to this one =]

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 12:15am

Best of luck to all involved. I'm looking forward to these reviews.

[yay_gerb]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 12:21am

Good luck to everyone involved in this amazing production!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 6:14am

Awww...Limelight!....I was looking for your starter on this! You are defintely slacking! It's not the same if its not started by you!

But I am SO full of anticipation for these reviews!!!

[jaystarr]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 2:56pm

BREAK-A-LEG! Hoping for nothing less that raves for this show, aww!

J*

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 2:57pm

I hope these are positive.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 2:59pm

I can't wait to read the RAVE reviews!

[DAME]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 3:03pm

So.. between orchestra row H seat 16 and Front Mezzanie Row A , seat 113.... which do you all reccomend?

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 3:05pm

A113, all the way. If you do H16, you'll be all the way to the side.

[madbrian]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 3:06pm

I would ALWYAS take first row mezz.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 3:08pm

I'm not going to say "good luck, Hair," so "split your ends!"

[DAME]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 3:22pm

Front Mezz it is. Thank you all for your help.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 4:32pm

I'm listening to the OBC now....one of my faves. I hope this is a hit.

And by the way, right around 2 hours from now would have been an appropriate time to start this thread.

[MiracleElixir]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 4:48pm

I think raves are very possible, if not guaranteed, but at the least, the reviews will be almost universally positive. Can't wait to see this again.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 4:50pm

Best of luck to everyone involved with this extraordinary production. They deserve the raves they will almost undoubtedly get.
Updated On: 3/31/09 at 04:50 PM

[fetzles1490]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 5:37pm

LOL Namo. Yes, split your ends tonight, Hair! Best of luck!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 6:16pm

Merkins to the cast of this revival!

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 6:17pm

Not that it matters, but The Boston Globe is a Pan:

"Well, there is the music, of course. And those of us who grew up to "Aquarius" and "Good Morning Starshine" and "Let the Sun Shine In" do, undeniably, get the slight if giddy pleasure of hearing Galt McDermot's light little tunes again. But you are perhaps forgetting just how many other songs there are in this score, and just how many of them sound alike, and just how tired you will get of hearing some of them even one more time.

Part of what makes them tiresome this time around is that they are all, in our modern fashion, heavily amplified. That means that even in the famous nude tableau, the body microphones never come off. And few things are more depressing than watching a musical that purports to celebrate freedom and spontaneity while requiring its performers to sing with wires.

The packaged feeling extends to Karole Armitage's choreography, which has even the wild "drug" scenes feeling tightly controlled and minutely organized. The members of the Tribe (you know, the chorus) rush up and down the aisles, hugging and jumping on seats and leaning out from the boxes, but not a single movement feels spontaneous or real. It's like sitting in the middle of a giant commercial for, oh, Gap Tie-Dye or McPot."

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/04/01/innocence_spontaneity_lost_in_hair_revival/

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 6:19pm

Ouch

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 6:25pm

The Bergen Record is Very Positive:

"The show?s mood is established and maintained by Will Swenson, who seizes the role of Berger, the hippies? manic leader. Exemplifying the philosophy of being rather than doing, Berger is completely spontaneous, high on life (and other things), maybe a little crazy, someone you need to keep an eye on because you ? and he ? have no idea what he?ll do next.

In contrast, there?s Claude, who, while also lacking plans, has dreams, if only he can avoid being inducted into the Army and sent to fight in Vietnam.

The draft and the war are elements of the show that can still provoke deep feelings, and Claude?s dilemma ? does he have the will to defy society, or will he go along with what?s demanded of him? ? in a way capsulizes the quandary of the era. Gavin Creel plays Claude effectively, but without the depth of feeling that Jonathan Groff brought to the role in the park production."

http://www.northjersey.com/entertainment/stage/hairbl040109.html

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 6:49pm

Talkin' Broadway is Negative (basically, the revival is much better than it was last year, but the show shouldn't have been revived at all):

"Paulus, Armitage, and their cast have toiled scrupulously hard to ensure their production could survive outside the allure of the Park and its free tickets, and they?ve unquestionably succeeded. The performers that have carried over (most notably Swenson, but also Bryce Ryness as the guy with a crush on Mick Jagger and Allison Case, who?s so warmly charming singing ?Frank Mills?) have only expanded their portrayals, and the newcomers (an astonishingly energetic and intense Creel, Sasha Allen as the ?Aquarius? songstress, and Caissie Levy as Berger?s ?Easy to Be Hard? girlfriend Sheila) fit in seamlessly. Not a one lets you feel you?re seeing less than the best that could possibly be done with this material in 2009.

But you?re still seeing a 42-year-old show pretending it?s the newest, hippest thing around when it?s as out of touch as the parents (delightfully played by Megan Lawrence and Andrew Kober) it makes fun of. However top-notch this production might be, it never makes you understand the piece?s depth or insight, and thus ultimately fails. What Broadway desperately needs is a new Hair, not a new production of the old one: something that will identify today?s youth, with its fears and its loves and its music, to the mainstream and encourage a more complex understanding of where they?re taking the world. That would be a far richer tribute to this work?s lasting legacy than this accomplished, enticing, and thoroughly meaningless revival."

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/Hair2009.html

Updated On: 3/31/09 at 06:49 PM

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 6:54pm

That review makes no sense. Murray is back to having a stick up his ass it seems.

He argues that the show shouldn't have been revived for most of the review. Well it was. So how was the actual production? Whats the point of arguing about its existence..?

[snl89]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 6:56pm

WTH with these negative reviews!?!?!


I mean, for certain shows I'd expect some negative reviews, but... this production does NOT deserve them


But at least none of these are the important ones anyway :P

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 6:59pm

I don't understand these reviews. I think most of them are from people who don't like Hair in general. Hair is an acquired taste, if you don't like Hair you won't give it a good review. If you do like it then you will give it a race review.

[lovesclassics]

Posted: 3/31/09 at 6:59pm

We here in Boston have felt that Louise Kennedy has been off her meds far too long now. Give that woman some Prozac or a much needed vacation.

Total burn out.