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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] The New York Times noted in 2007 that "The cast album of Hair was ... a must-have for the middle classes. Its ...
The same month, the families of a cast member and the stage manager died in a fire in the Cleveland hotel where members of the show's troupe were staying. [168] [169] The Sydney, Australia, production's opening night was interrupted by a bomb scare in 1969. [170] Hair effectively marked the end of stage censorship in the United Kingdom. [150]
Hair is a 1968 album recording of the London cast production of the musical Hair featuring Paul Nicholas, Vince Edward, Oliver Tobias, Michael Feast, Peter Straker, Annabel Leventon, Linda Kendrick, Marsha Hunt, Sonja Kristina and others conducted by Derek Wadsworth.
Like the best movie musicals of the '50s (Singin' in the Rain) and the '60s (A Hard Day's Night), Hair leaps from one number to the next. Soon the audience is leaping too." [11] Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both placed Hair on their list of Top Films of 1979. Siskel named it as the best film of the year, #1 on his list. [citation needed]
Plimpton's acting career spanned from the mid-1960s to the late-1980s. She created the role of "Crissy" in the original 1967 Off-Broadway production of Hair, and continued the role as a member of the original Broadway cast when the production moved to Broadway in 1968. [3] [1] In both productions, she sang the song "Frank Mills".
In 1968, Kristina auditioned for and won the part of "Crissy" in the London stage production of the stage musical Hair. [8] She features on the original cast album singing the song "Frank Mills", also released as a single. [6] She also briefly sang with The Strawbs, following the departure of Sandy Denny. [8] [9] Dave Cousins remembered:
Starting in 1968 and through at least the summer of 1969, Hall was an original member of the Los Angeles production of Hair.Wearing signature pigtails she opened the show, singing "Aquarius". [1]
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.