Hair faced many protests and legal challenges as it toured the United States...
…The production was paused in Boston due to concerns regarding the portrayal of the American flag. …The case moved its way through the courts and was eventually appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling allowing the production to resume performances.
Breaking with mainstream theater trends of the time, the stage of the original Broadway production of Hair was completely open, with no curtain and the fly area and grid exposed to the audience.
Hair makes several literary allusions , including Romeo and Juliet (“Let the Sun Shine In”), Hamlet (“What a Piece of Work is Man”), and the Allen Ginsburg poem “Wichita Vortex Sutra” (“Three-Five-Zero-Zero”).
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