Like a mini Woodstock, from the moment the audience arrive, The Vaults is transformed into a fully immersive 60s venue, with psychedelic innovative creatives, iconic artwork and hippie flower power. With 60s themed pop up restaurants and themed drinks; plus stalls including: vintage 60s and tie dye clothes, 60s smiley badges and memorabilia, hippie wigs and flower headdresses, vinyl’s – everything needed for a legal high. Then the audience move through to the intimate theatre seating just 200, where the genuinely youthful cast live their characters, revealing every emotion up close and personal through HAIR‘s drug fuelled journey - still ground-breaking at the age of 50.
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1967 and HAIR‘s hippie-hood youngsters live as The Tribe, in the East Village of New York: yearning to change the world, questioning authority and the American flag. They are wild, colourful, free, sexually liberated beautiful people who join in protest and song - under the shadow of the Vietnam War. Featuring classic hit songs: Aquarius, Let the Sun Shine In and Good Morning Star Shine - and the story of youth and war still resounds throughout the world making this a topical musical for the millennial generation. 2017 vividly sees the world protesting and marching, fighting for freedom of speech; from Trump to Brexit via Syria – the core spirit of HAIR.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Off-Broadway premiere of Hair, originally billed as the American tribal love-rock musical, at New York's Public Theatre.
Having written about a fair few season announcements at theatres across London over the past few years, it’s almost expected that a programme full of ‘new work’ and ‘world premieres’ will be stuffed with plays – musicals often hardly get a look in. However, one producer has made it somewhat of a mission to bring as many new, fresh musicals to stages as humanly possible.
The full casting has been announced for the 50th anniversary tour of Hair the Musical, opening at the New Wimbledon Theatre in 2019. Marcus Collins joins the cast as Hud, after starring in Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre and a national tour of Hairspray in 2013, playing Seaweed Stubbs.
Production photography has been released for the musical Hair, which opens at the Vaults tonight. Hair opened off-Broadway in 1967 before transferring to Broadway the following year, and tells the story of a group of hippie youngsters living in New York. At the time, its songs, which include “Awuarius”, “Three-Five-Zero-Zero” and “Good Morning Starshine”, became anthems for the anti-Vietnam war movement. The musical will transform the Waterloo venue, giving it a fully immersive ‘60s vibe with themed restaurants, bars and shops selling memorabilia including tie dye clothes and the like.
The full casting has been announced for the 50th anniversary production of rock musical Hair, which runs at the Vaults from October. Hair is the story of the “tribe” a political group of hippies living in New York protesting against the Vietnam War. It has music by Galt McDermot, lyrics and a book by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and first opened Off-Broadway in 1967. It features the songs “Aquarius”, “Let the Sun Shine In” and “Good Morning Star Shine.”
