HAIR came directly from Greenwich Village, a couple of blocks away from the real hippies changing the world down in Washing ton Square, and blazed every aspect of this counterculture across the stage in vivid afro, tie-dye, beaded, long-haired, psychedelic colour! “We wanted to create something new, something different, something that translated to the stage the wonderful excitement we felt in the streets”, commented Rado.

And HAIR didn’t stop there – in 1970 and 1975 it challenged the American Constitution to uphold the First Amendment right of freedom of speech, and also became the iconic anti-war musical, unfortunately as relevant today as it was in the Flower Power ‘60s at the height of the Vietnam conflict.

Saturday May 26 to Sunday July 1
Tue to Fri at 8pm. Sat at 5pm and 8.30pm. Sun at 3pm (Sunday 03 June at 5pm).

From the team that made “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” such hits! Paul Warwick Griffin, Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Timothy Le Roux, Keith Anderson and Jannie Swanepoel.Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado. Music by Galt MacDermot.

At a time when Broadway was presenting musical hits that included Fiddler on the Roof, Hello Dolly, Sweet Charity, and A little Night Music, two out-of-work actors, James Rado and Gerome Ragni, were creating something completely different…

…the revolutionary musical HAIR – which became the defining point of a generation and introduced the Rock Musical to theatre audiences, changing the format of this genre forever.

Almost everyone knows the songs that have been made famous by the musical and the 1979 film directed by Milos Forman and starring John Savage, Treat Williams and Beverly D’Angelo. From the soaring lyrics of the seminal song “Aquarius” that opens the musical, to the final denouncement of war in “The Flesh Failures/ Let The Sunshine In” and all the brilliant folk-rock anthems in-between, – “Donna”, “Manchester England”, “I’m Black”, “Good Morning Starshine”, “Ain’t Got No”, “I Believe In Love”, “I Got Life”, “What A Piece of Work Is Man”, “My Conviction” and “Hare Krishna” – HAIR will sweep you along, march you ‘round, and set you down, dazed and amazed!

LET YOUR HAIR DOWN AND JOIN THE NEW REVOLUTION!