Welcome to Musical Mondays!
For the month of August I shall be celebrating my love for musicals and musical film every Monday during this month.
If you have not seen any of theses musicals / musical films and wish not to have them spoilt for you please stop reading now and go watch them now before you continue.
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I did warn you!
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I was first introduced to this by my in-laws, they loved the musical and the had the film version to show me. I have yet to see the musical live on stage but I will keep an eye out for a show.
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Hair The Musical made it's premiere on Broadway 1968 on April 29th.
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| http://www.heathermacrae.net/gallery/shows/hair/hair.html |
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The main cast for the film (above) and the musical show (below).
This is an image from the 2009 Tony Awards.
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Hair
Claude leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture and subsequently drafted. - IMDB
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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. - Wikipedia
The film and stage musical vary in many ways but I feel they both project the story pretty well.
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My feelings towards conscription pair very well with this story, I am very much a peace, love and not war kind of person. I know some people feel quite patriotic about their country or feel that is the only way they know how to help but not everyone wants to fight and die for their country, some people just want to live their lives. I would hate for this to happen in my lifetime because I am not sure I could bare losing a loved one because they were forced to fight for a cause they didn't believe in.
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| http://www.kulturfreak.de/Besprechungen/Eigene-Besprechung/BMus8/bmus8.html |
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| https://www.communication.northwestern.edu/wirtz/hair |
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Most people should have heard this song in some shape or form but I feel it really sets the mood of what's to come.
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I'd love this song and I don' know why, I don't think I will ever be grown up when you get songs about different words for sex.
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The posters are so vibrant and colourful.
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The research that I have done on the two endings (Show and Film) are very different and some dislike the film all together because the stage has more colour and light. In my eyes both endings are very sad and I know the film made me cry.
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I have a poll up on twitter where you can vote and tell me in the comments what version is your favourite and why.
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Thank you for reading!
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| http://beverlypress.com/2011/01/hair/ |
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