1967 in theatre

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Chapters: 1967 musicals, 1967 plays, Hair, The Great White Hope, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Paul Korda, How Now, Dow Jones, Sherry!, Now Is The Time For All Good Men, 21st Tony Awards, Hallelujah, Baby!, Illya Darling, Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe, Dream on Monkey Mountain, Line, Spring and Port Wine, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Los Vendidos, MacBird!, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Fortune and Men's Eyes, White Lies, Henry, Sweet Henry, A Matter of Gravity, The Deer Park, Lovers, Not Now, Darling, One Last Look, More Stately Mansions, Johnny No-Trump, La Turista, Wise Child, The Sparrow, The Four Musketeers. Excerpt: Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy. The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of "rock musical", using a racially integrated cast, and inviting the audience onstage for a "Be-In" finale. Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their friends struggle to balance their young lives, loves and the sexual revolution with their rebellion against the war and their conservative parents and society. Ultimately, Claude must decide whether to resist the draft as his friends have done, or to succumb to the pressures of his parents (and conservative America) to serve in Vietnam, compromising his pacifistic principles and risking his life. After an Off-Broadway debut in October 1967 at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and a subsequent run in a midtown discothèque space, the show opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances. Simultaneous productions in cities across the United States and Europe followed shortly thereafter, including a successful London production, which ran for 1,997 performances. Since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world, spawning dozens of recordings of the musical, including the million-selling original Broadway cast recording. Some of the songs from its score became Top 10 hits, and a feature film adaptation was released in 1979