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Hair is the cast recording of the original, Off-Broadway cast of the musical Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.It was released in 1967 by RCA Victor. [1] Hair premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theater on October 17, 1967, and the cast album was recorded two weeks later.
Hair was Broadway's "first fully realized" concept musical, a form that dominated the musical theatre of the seventies. [254] While the development of the concept musical was an unexpected consequence of Hair 's tenure on Broadway, the expected rock music revolution on Broadway turned out to be less than complete. [254]
The album charted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the last Broadway cast album to do so. Hair ' s cast album stayed at No. 1 for 13 weeks in 1969. [2] The recording also received a Grammy Award in 1969 for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album [3] and sold nearly 3 million copies in the U.S. by December 1969. [4]
Shortly before “Hair” opened at Broadway’s Biltmore Theater on April 29, 1968 — 50 years ago this month — Variety reported, “The musical is vehemently anti-establishment and pro ...
The 'Hair' Broadway cast album spawned four top five singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including the No. 1 smash “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” by The 5th Dimension.
"Good Morning Starshine" is a song from the second act of the musical Hair (1967). It is performed by the character Sheila, played off-Broadway in 1967 by Jill O'Hara, and by Lynn Kellogg in the original 1968 Broadway production. In the 1979 film version of the musical, Sheila is portrayed by Beverly D'Angelo. [2]
The actor worked primarily off-Broadway until he debuted in Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002 opposite ... He was also nominated in 2009 for portraying Claude in the 2009 Broadway revival of Hair.
Based on his growing reputation with Futz! and other off-off-Broadway plays he directed, Hair authors Ragni and Rado sought out O'Horgan to direct the Off-Broadway production of the show when it opened at The Public Theater in the fall of 1967, but O'Horgan was working in Europe at the time and was unable to accept the invitation. When the show ...