Marcus Crowder Liked "Hair"

Good review!

Theater's transcendent magic lives right now in a vibrant new production of "Hair" at The Space. Earnest, irreverent, lewd and lovely, the musical that put hippies on Broadway gets a glorious revival from the upstart Artistic Differences theater company.

...Electricity surges through the production, from Netty Carey's arresting lead vocal on the opening anthem "Aquarius" to Lindsay Grimes and Cierra Tahsini bringing home the soul-stirring closer "Let the Sunshine In."

Director Maggie Hollinbeck and her youthful tribe capture both the innocence and arrogance of the 1968 musical. The counterculture was still more a curiosity than a commodity then, though the interests and excesses of youth change little from generation to generation. As much a social phenomenon as a bracing breath of radical musical theater, "Hair" broke new ground when first produced in 1968.

Here is the SacBee multimedia presentation.