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Making 'Hair' a far-out be-in for 21st-century audience - Plain Dealer

2012-01-15

Plain DealerMaking 'Hair' a far-out be-in for 21st-century audiencePlain DealerBy Special to The Plain Dealer What: PlayhouseSquare's Broadway Series presents the award-winning revival of the rock musical with music by Galt MacDermot and a book by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, directed by Diane Paulus.

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'Hair' care much apparent in revival of landmark musical - The Morning Journal

2012-01-19

'Hair' care much apparent in revival of landmark musicalThe Morning JournalDirector Diane Paulus breezily delineates the many vignettes and mini dramas — facing the draft, dropping out of school, love triangles and quadrangles, protests and “be-ins” — that stop and start throughout Gerome Ragni's and James Rado's book.

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'Hair': A musical trip down memory lane - Palm Beach Post

2012-01-12

Palm Beach Post'Hair': A musical trip down memory lanePalm Beach PostIf the political message of the show now takes a back seat to the tuneful Galt MacDermot-Gerome Ragni-James Rado score, and if the songs seem like old familiar friends rather than the profane shockers they once were, that is just the nature of a ...Toe-tapping 'Hair' ages wellPalm Beach Daily Newsall 3 news articles »

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'Hair' Co-Author James Rado Fetes 80th Birthday at the Copa - DNAinfo

2012-01-25

'Hair' Co-Author James Rado Fetes 80th Birthday at the CopaDNAinfoRado, who lived in New York City for years before moving to Hoboken, wrote the play along with Gerome Ragni, who died in 1991. But even though his writing partner has passed, Rado has not stopped creating. At his birthday bash on Monday night, ...and more »

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ATG Announces Co-Producing Partnership With Tali Pelman - Broadway World

2012-01-16

ATG Announces Co-Producing Partnership With Tali PelmanBroadway WorldBetween 2003 and 2006, Tali was Producer of the Gate Theatre where productions included The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill (Gate/National Theatre), Hair, book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado; music by Galt MacDermot, Woyzeck by Georg Büchner ...and more »

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Theater review: 'Hair' revival at PlayhouseSquare reveals some aging of Aquarius

2012-01-19

“What is so likable about ‘Hair,’” noted New York Times critic Clive Barnes in his 1968 review of the controversial musical love-fest, “is simply that it is so likable. So new. So fresh and so unassuming [with an] authentic voice of today.”

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Radiance of 'Hair' shines through in hip revival

2012-01-17

The national touring production of the recent Broadway revival, ensconced at the Palace Theatre for two weeks, is such a rousing and often moving depiction of a bygone era that virtually nothing can stop this energy machine.

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Making 'Hair' a far-out be-in for 21st-century audience

2012-01-15

The touring version of this seminal 1960s rock musical, opening Tuesday at the Palace Theatre as part of PlayhouseSquare's Broadway Series, is reputedly full of surprises. As director Diane Paulus puts it, "I want to make the audience feel present in that rule-breaking time, 45 years ago. To do that, we're focusing more on the characters." And not emphasizing the most predictable hippie ...

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