The story involves Keith Carradine, who's got to be the only person who's won an Oscar for Best Song and has nabbed a Tony nomination as Best Actor in a Musical. I talked to him last week about his role in Arthur Laurents' new play, New Year's Eve, which starts performances next week at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (He said he plays a playwright, and that the script is all about sex.)
Gavin Creel, Sasha Allen, and Will Swenson help provide a special look inside the hit Broadway revival of the 1967 musical Hair.
Audra McDonald, Taye Diggs, John Gallagher Jr., Kathie Lee Gifford, Annie Golden, Idina Menzel, Melba Moore, and Martha Plimpton help the cast of Hair celebrate their Broadway opening.
Diane Paulus' surehanded staging of the 1967 antiwar musical, both joyous and heartbreaking, makes this show the year's best Broadway musical revival.
It's the first Sunday in June, 1968, and I think I'm going to be arrested. The first act of Hair, the new Broadway sensation, has just ended with a lot of kids totally stark naked on the stage of the Biltmore. Once the house lights come up, a policeman walks down the center aisle and tells the capacity crowd that we're all being taken into custody for attending such a lewd event.
Diane Paulus directs a crowd-pleasing and remarkably satisfying production of the 1967 anti-war musical in its ideal setting: Central Park's Delacorte Theatre.
Director Diane Paulus discusses the Public's revival of Hair in Central Park, singing "Sodomy" at age nine, and where naked cast members hide their microphones.