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- Title
Splitting Hair: Reviving the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical in the 1970s.
- Authors
Vandevender, Bryan
- Abstract
When Hair premiered on Broadway in 1968, the musical garnered attention for its reflection the current cultural moment. Critics acknowledged this congruence of form, content, and zeitgeist as the production's greatest asset. This alignment with the Vietnam era proved a liability nine years later when Hair received its first Broadway revival, particularly when the musical's authors replaced many of the libretto's cultural references with allusions to the 1970s, further illuminating the musical's inherently time-bound qualities.
- Subjects
HAIR (Play); MUSICALS; THEATRICAL revivals; LIBRETTO; CASTING (Performing arts)
- Publication
New England Theatre Journal, 2018, Vol 29, p31
- ISSN
1050-9720
- Publication type
Article