Sunday, September 17, 2023

HAIR: Musical (sing, dance, watch on 9/21)

Seven, Ananda (DBM) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Sarah Azcarate (Altadena Music Theatre)
SIGNS: "Drop Acid Not Bombs," "Lay Don't Slay," "My Mind My Body My Freedom"...
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If you can see my eyes, my hair's too short
BE HERE NOW (with us on stage as the night's pre-show chanting entertainment).

This year's production of HAIR is roaring along above Pasadena at the Farnsworth Park Amphitheater. We are this Thursday's pre-show entertainment. So we're going to sing Eastern cosmic chants accompanied by the harmonium and sitar. Join us on stage. Dance in the aisles during and after the show. Support the arts in Lo Angeles during this time of turmoil for Hollywood actors and writers. The professionally choreographed acting and singing of this company is something to behold. This is the second year of the production, and there will be a few hundred in the audience. CONTACT JEN OR SEVEN TO PERFORM WITH US. (We are not in the play, just the pre-show entertainment who will be doing call-and-response yogic chanting).

Or sit in the audience and enjoy the play
Sarah and Oliver, Melissa and Chris are doing it again. HAIR: The Musical is back high above Pasadena on Lake Avenue.

It's the 1960s. The US War on Vietnam (with secret carpet bombing of innocent noncombatant civilians in Cambodia and Laos) rages on. But hippie peaceniks and counterculture pot smokers are not having it.

It's time to rebel, the shake off the draft and the oppression of the Establishment. It's time for youthful rebels to wear their hair however they want and be free. Live rock band musicians accompany each performance.


It's the 60s (altadenamusicaltheatre.com)
Sarah and Oliver, Melissa and Chris are doing it again. HAIR is back in Altadena at Farnsworth Amphitheatre, right above Pasadena on Lake Ave. It's the 1960s all over again as the war rages on and hippie peaceniks and counterculture pot smokers are not having it.

It's time to rebel, the shove off the oppression of Establishment standards. It's time for a Youth Rebellion with lots of hair, long beautiful hair, with live rock musicians at each performance. Book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, and music by Galt MacDermot.
The story of Hair
Can art and rock music change the world?
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and rock music by Galt MacDermot. It reflects observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, so popular that several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement.

The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its joyful treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its famous nude scene caused much controversy.

It broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of "rock musical," using a racially-integrated cast, and inviting audience members onstage for a "Be-In" finale.

Hair tells the story of the "tribe," a group of long-haired hippies who get politically active in the "Age of Aquarius," living an easy, bohemian life in NYC, fighting against U.S. government corruption and conscription in empire's latest imperial disaster against peaceful Buddhist Vietnam (while secretly also napalming and cluster bombing Buddhist Cambodia and Laos).

Claude, his good friend Berger, their hot roommate Sheila, and their friends struggle to balance youthful lives, loves, and the sexual revolution with their rebellion against war and their conservative parents and society.

Ultimately, Claude has to decide whether to resist the draft like his friends have done or go kill in Vietnam, compromising his pacifist beliefs and risking his life. More
HAIR is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark, LLC (concordtheatricals.com). Join us in support of the arts with all local acting and musical talent.
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