"Let the Sunshine In": The Tribal Ritual Which is HAIR

I can't really say that I was totally taken into the frenzy, because this production has lived in my head since 1967. I'm glad that I had the occasion to re-live my "HAIR" euphoria, but the production didn't always proceed from the 60's, in my opinion. Will Swenson as Berger was a true free spirit on stage and was most enjoyable to watch. Gavin Creel as Claude also played a believeable perplexed young man. I enjoyed watching Gavin and Will work along side each other, many times with a very metrosexual bent.

The young cast sang, danced, moved, grovelled and humped all the way through the performance, indeed enjoying themselves in front of such an appreciative audience. I just tended to sing the songs in my head, remembering the original production, not this one so much.

I will say that I sang the finale with joy and tears watching older people join younger people on the stage. Since I am old "Jesus Freak" I always sang "Let the Sunshine In" representing Jesus as the Sunshine and there was joy indeed coming from my heart on Saturday afternoon, June 13.