Starshines Unite! The official HAIR love thread...

Post your love for the amazing revival of HAIR here!

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Updated On: 7/19/09 at 05:43 PM

CS, I'll hopefully be posting much love for this revival when it becomes the first Broadway show I'll ever see in April :)

Going Tues night--- to say that I am excited is an understatement !!!!

I'm addicted. I lost lotto and got a full price ticket because I love this show so much.

Saw it for the first time today and will definitely be making a return trip. Such a great experience!

I haven't planned a return trip yet, but I know I will be going back many, many times!

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Let me know how you like those seats. I sat there for the for the first act last night.

The rear mezz isn't that bad. I saw Gavin Creel practically climbing on people back there.

Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it.

Need I say more?

Kinda missed the star power (read: Jonathan Groff), but the Broadway cast still did an AmAzInG job. So much youthful, charged energy on stage.

So one more time: Loved it.

I saw it tonight! I am so happy that Groff didn't sign on. Greel is amazing! His Claude is three dimensional! His relationship with Berger is wonderful. It was heartbreaking to watch them during Good Morning Starshine and Yippee! I had tears welling up watching them.

Greel also was able to act his way during the songs rather then doing the American Idol singing style. His Where Do I go was sung with serious soul searching. I was actually blown away!

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Saw the show yesterday, and I love it so FREAKING much I cannot even... just... I wanted to go back even before it ENDED. That's how flipping fantastic it was <3 The ONLY weakness I saw in it was that there were parts that were kind of hard to follow, and also I don't know if it was just because we were in the box seats, but the sound was a little muffled in terms of understanding what people were singing. But honestly, that barely even mattered at all, with the pure ENERGY that was radiating off of that stage. The entire thing- the staging, the lighting, the cast (of which there's not a single weak link), everything. 100% brilliant.


And, just for the record, that's with Gavin having been out- which, you know, lots of my draw to go see the show in the first place came from Gavin's being in it haha.

(It was amazing and funny though, because his understudy, Jay- my mom and I know him!! He was in Hairspray up in Weston, VT and we met him there, and then we randomly ran into him again in NYC like a year ago, standing next to him and rocking out to Hairspray on Broadway for Marissa Perry's first show- she was also in Hairspray in Weston! And we had NO IDEA he was in Hair!! So it was so adorable- he was up right by us in the end, and saw us, and after the curtain call he ran over and gave us hugs and everything, and was so excited we were there hehe. He's SUCH a sweetheart, and even though I was very sad not to see Gavin on my first time out, I still felt proud to have seen Jay's first time because my mom and I clearly have a thing with him hehe. Aaand he did an awesome job- totally sounds a ton like Gavin! I shall be going back pleeenty of times, so I'll get my fill of Gavin )



A couple other notes:
- Will Swenson is so freaking gorgeous it's not even funny, and he was a COMPLETE blast to watch. Soooo damn good.

- Caissie Levy is awesome, and has the coolest voice

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Updated On: 3/23/09 at 12:27 AM

I neeeed to go back ASAP and see Gavin. Again, totally lurve Jay and he's the sweetest of sweethearts, but.. still, Gavin is Gavin. When I saw he was out my heart sunk.


Oh and I'd also just like to say that, having loved the music from Hair but never really having known the story before, I did NOT realize it was so heartbreaking in the end Really, really rather upsetting. Of course then by the time the curtain call is done and everyone's been rocking out hardcore to Let The Sun Shine you feel good again haha. But the ending itself really is just so sad. But such a very important message, and still frighteningly relevant to our world today. When will we ever learn? *sigh*

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Updated On: 3/23/09 at 12:41 AM

Caissie has been out already?
Here we go...