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PERFORMANCES AT RICHMOND HILL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
July 25, 26 & 28, 2013
HAIR, the American tribal love-rock musical that popularized the spirit of the 1960's, awakens to bring its message of freedom, peace and love to the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts for a limited engagement.
Hair is at once both a joyous celebration of youth and a poignant journey through the tumultuous 1960s! This exuberant musical about a group of young adults searching for truth, peace and love in a Vietnam War era will strike a resonant chord with audiences of all ages. HAIR features an extraordinary cast singing a long list of chart topping hit songs, including “Aquarius,” “Let the Sun Shine In,” "Good Morning, Starshine" and “Easy To Be Hard.” The themes and struggles in HAIR, although from another era, seem vital and relevant to the times we live in today in more ways than you realize until you experience the show first hand.
SHARE THE LOVE AT OUR FINAL PERFORMANCE (Sunday July 28th at 5:30pm): hair-cutting stations will be available to audience members during intermission to cut a minimum of 8 inches of hair for the making of wigs. It takes approximately 12 donations of unprocessed hair and costs about $1,200 to craft a single hand-sewn wig for a child.
PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISORY: While many find this show suitable for young adults 13 and older, parental discretion is advised. There is a dimly lit 20-second scene with partial nudity that is non-sexual in nature.
"Is there an answer in their sweet faces that tells me why I live and die?"
Music by GALT MACDERMOT
Book and Lyrics by JAMES RADO AND JEROME RAGNI
Directed by SARAH KYLE
Includes: nudity, sexuality, drug references, peace, love and hope.
FAQ for Hair
Will there be nudity or ideas of free love in this production?
Nowadays with the influence of mass social media, television and electronic games, people are able to turn a blind eye and have almost no reaction to the use of guns and weapons of mass destruction, even when they are seen and presented as 'fun' to children. As a public we are conditioned have a limited reaction to extremely violent television, and thus, an additional and unfortunate blind eye to images of mass genocide and war. How can the showing of our human bodies in a theatrical performance for 20 seconds with some partial nudity, presented in a non-sexual manner, get a bigger reaction than these violent images? What does that say about society today? Hair will be a peace-loving summer production of truth and love. It is a period piece and will be directed and presented with respect.