"Hair" Number on the Tony Awards

I really liked it, but I agree the part with the audience was a little overkill.

I do agree that they looked more like "modern people dressing like hippies" than actual hippies, though. You know, the kind of clothes you'd see if on a 60's theme day during Homecoming week or something.

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Updated On: 6/8/09 at 05:45 PM

The Tribe members did seem a little...clean-cut for a bunch of quasi-homeless hippies when I watched in Central Park, but I loved the show, including the parts when they entered the audience. Their performances are genuine enough to make it work as an expression of joy - especially because when I saw the show I was bouncing in my seat well before the audience interaction bits happened.

The direction on the Tonys could have been better, but that's old news by now.

I have always thought that these hippies were too clean...but a small and forgettable criticism in an otherwise wonderful show.

At the Hirschfeld they make no bones that they acknowledge the audience. Usually I hate audience interactions, but somehow this works for me.

I guess I partake in the kool aid!! It's part of the experience. If you don't like it, go see something else. More availability for me!

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Yes. Yes, you were.

I loved the interaction so much, but I'm also a huge Rocky Horror fan so I think that could explain some of it.
I can't stop watching the moment when the entire group in the opening join the HAIR cast! It's so fun to pick out who is dancing with who. My favorite - Allison and Raul. A perfect combination for me :)

Best performance of the night by far.

Best show of the season.

Best show on Broadway.

I just love this show!

Exactly what pretensions do you see in a song about hair? I'm genuinely curious.

I would love to know why anyone thinks the audience interaction is "pretentious?" I saw the word a lot when someone described SPRING AWAKENING and the microphones and I guess I can understand that. But the whole concept of HAIR as the the "hippies" have taken over the theatre and they're running rampant through it. I do, however, agree that they all might be a little too clean to be a haggle of hippi. But their commitment to their characters and to the show at large is so wonderful that any of these silly flaws are easily overlooked. For me, anyway.

I don't think the idea of the audience interaction worked as well at RCMH just because it's so damn big. It works to great effect at the Hirschfeld because everyone's evenly dispersed. But I liked the performance quite a bit.

Why didn't the cast perform the nude scene live? This would have greatly increased the ratings.

And everyone could definitely make the final decision about whether or not the cast is clean cut.

"How many times can you run into the audience and harass them without it getting old?"

Well, each night at the theater they are performing for a different audience, so it does not really get old.

I love this show and am happy it won Best Musical Revival.

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The girl who plays "Crissy" is so over the top with her mannerisms. She needs to tone it down...so annoying to watch. She does it every time she performs.

Oh wow and is that Melba Moore and Paul ("Last Dance/Main Event") Jbara in the first vintage HAIR pic?

Updated On: 6/10/09 at 04:38 AM

I prefer my hippies showered, thank you very much. I remember my older. unshowered hippie-cousins from when i was an adolescent in the late 60s, and they stank.

Literally.

They only thing that covered their unpleasant body odor was the lingering scent of marijuana on their unlaundered clothes, from which all around would get contact highs.

If that's the experience you crave, go hang with some homeless people and sing Aquarius with them.

How many times can you run into the audience and harass them without it getting old?

If it means I can get Will Swenson's crotch in my face and Gavin Creel's ass in my lap...?

May it run as long as they original did.

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