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'Hair' is a musical about the kind of people you see on the street - if the street you're on is in Manhattan, circa 1967, which is when under-employed actors James Rado and Gerome Ragni took the eminently sensible decision to write themselves a job (the music is by Galt MacDermot). The 'hippie musical' opened the venerable New York Public Theater's Lafayette Street home, became the first off-Broadway show to transfer onto Broadway and then crossed the Atlantic just in time for the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain post - wise timing, since the British Censor probably wouldn't have coped well with onstage naked peaceniks. The Public Theater's current production, directed by Diane Paulus and designed by Scott Pask, won a Tony Award, so it's good news that the entire original Broadway cast, including Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Thomas B McGrath, is coming over with it. When it played here in 1968 at the Shaftesbury, the collapse of the theatre's ceiling brought the run to a premature end; hopefully at the Gielgud, 'Hair' will only bring the house down in the metaphorical sense.
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