Hair Tickets

Hair News and Information Hair: The American Trial Love-Rock Musical is currently showing at the Al Hirschfeld Theater in New York, the Neil Simon Theater in New York, and will be soon showing at The Muny in Forest Park, Missouri and at the Orange County Fair & Expo Center in Costa Mesa, California in 2010.

Hair is a product of the hippie counter-culture of the 1960s and has been a crowd pleaser for more than 40 years.

The musical circles around Claude and his "tribe:" Sheila, a NYU student and political activist who is pregnant and wishes it was Claude's baby; Berger, a self-proclaimed "psychedelic teddy bear" who wears a loin cloth; Hud, a militant African-American; and Woof, a kind African-American who grows things and praises several sexual acts, including sodomy.

The musical is centered on several themes, including race, nudity and sexual freedom, drugs, pacifism and environmentalism, religion and astrology.

The title "Hair" was formed from a part in the musical when Claude and Berger explain to a "tourist" the meaning of their long hair. The tourist claims that they should "do whatever you want" as long as it isn't hurting anyone. The tourist then strips off her jacket and reveals himself as a man in drag.

The musical has close to thirty songs, which is more than double what is usually displayed in musicals. Original material came from a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, with music by Galt MacDermot.