Arrived from London and Broadway stage where it has achieved great success, finally comes to Spain’s musical Hair. Under the title “Love & Rock Musical Hair” the Apolo Theatre hosts since last December 17, 2010 this musical which highlights values like peace, love and freedom.
“Hair Love & Rock Musical” is set in New York City in 1967 during the Vietnam War where the youth tired of a struggle against this repressive system, intolerance and dehumanization of society while seeking his identity. His argument revolves around the relationship of Claude, a young man so eager to live as fear of the repressive capacity of the system-with-an activist Sheila upper-class university and Berger-A young and wildly free-absolute as well as the rest of the Tribe of Hippies with whom they live, each with its particular problems and his personal vision in the harsh reality around them. This rhythm of known numbers such as the classics “Aquarius,” “Good Morning Starshine” and “Let’s the Sunshine In.”
This original play by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, premiered in 1969 at off-Broadway in New York, is headed by Daniel Anglès, translated by Roger Peña Roser Batalla and music by Galt MacDermot, has a large cast which include Joan Vazquez as Claude, Berger and John Coll as Julia Möller as Sheila, among others.
Add that is represented worldwide in several languages during his last Broadway staging in 2009 won theTony Award for Best Revival of Musical Theatre and even had a film version in 1979 directed by Milos Forman.
“Hair Love & Rock Musical” is produced by The William Morris Agency Endeavor Entertainment, Publintermedia Consulting, Production Group and JK Illuminati Productions has no time-of-date.