Review – Hair

Get a job, lousy hippies. Seriously, this musical massively fails at this point in our nation’s history simply because it now needs 21st-century audiences to sympathize with frivolous flower children. The lead hippie (Treat Williams) is particularly nettlesome. Almost all of his lines are arguments of one kind or another. And not good, sensible, productive arguments, either. After awhile, it’s like watching one of those episodes of “Cops” where a belligerent drunk futilely tries to order the police to take the handcuffs off. Over-arty choreography by Twyla Tharp doesn’t exactly help, nor does the 60s-era-liberal-white-person’s take on race relations. This might have had an important message to impart back when it first came out, but now it’s just a tedious relic. See if desperate