HAIR * in memory of Treat Williams * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary
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As a community theater actor, I can assure you that Hair is absolutely still being performed
Yep yep yep! It's such a fun show to be in AND watch.
@@MontgomeryWenis Last time I saw it everyone in the audience was singing. We all knew all the songs. It was great.
Didn't it have a big come back on Broadway a few years ago?
With the nudity?
@Serai3 Nudity in theater is a tricky proposition. In my state, it can be done, but only by equity actors because the clauses are very strict in what they sign and what both they and the rest of the company are allowed to do and not do. What it boils down to is that the only time they are allowed to be naked is in the wings a few moments right before they go onstage for the indicated scene, and once it is finished and they head offstage they must dress immediately before heading back to the dressing room (ironic, huh?). They can't be nude while waiting in the dressing rooms, going to some other part of the theater (such as a restroom), talking with other cast or crew, or meeting the audience. In addition, nobody is allowed to touch them in that state, and they are not allowed to touch anyone else while nude except within the scene performance context onstage. It's for the protection of everyone involved.
This is iconic. My parents saw it onstage at the Aquarius theater around 1969 here in SoCal. They won front row tickets through a radio contest. It had nude dancing, so it had been previously raided by the cops. When my folks went, they’d made changes to the nude scenes to avoid police raids but then wrote a mock raid into the script for the lulz. It’s meant to be a commentary on the social and political happenings of the time. I love it.
I knew the movie wouldn't be for you, but I am glad you saw it. It shows one of the great divides in our country. The Vietnam war was hugely polarizing, along with the free love and drug culture movement. Just as today, we have young people striving for an identity, it shows in this movie. The movie came out a dozen years after the musical was first released, so many of the songs were well known.
How you got through that ending without sobbing like a baby is beyond me. I watched this movie once in...um, let's see, gotta be 1984-ish? and I still cannot hear "Let the Sun Shine" without tears. George going into a war zone and dying there, rather than betray his friend, was heartbreaking.
I first seen it back in 88 on BBC2..I was 14 and the ending did hit me hard…poor George inadvertently sacrificed himself for a friend so claude could spend the last few hours with the girl he loved…heartbreaking seeing George go like that.
I saw it in the early eighties when it came on cable TV and I cried endlessly when Berger died. And the song he sings as he's marching off to war, the Flesh Failures, I still think is the best song outside of Aquarius. The lyrics are just so powerful and poignant
Same. The ending is heartbreaking.
@@SueSnellLives And that scene were Berger and the other soldiers are going into the big plane…it looks the plane is swallowing them up like a Whale..and to their deaths 🥹
@gerardhiggins4827 That’s a great reference. It is very Pink Floyd like in its metaphoric sense.
'Pink dress lady' her name was Charlotte Rae and starred in a T.V. show called Different Strokes and then The Facts of Life. She was one of my favorite characters on T.V. R.I.P. Charlotte Rae.
Mrs. Garrett truly was one of the most fun characters in TV.
Beverly D'Angelo, playing the love interest in this film, was in the National Lampoon films as Chevy Chase's wife
She was also in the Worst Witch with Tim Curry and Diana Rigg. It would be a great movie for Ashleigh to watch for Halloween.
@@JaneDoe-im6fe Wow. I barely remember it, but yeah. Crazy.
She lived in my neighborhood growing up in NYC, and my mom was friends with her!
Those theme songs live rent free in my head along with The Dukes of Hazzard.
As a former military brat(1959-1975); Dad was a USAF analyst during Vietnam and other assignments after his tour; we were lucky enough to travel with him to different countries. On our final trip back to the states we had a week layover/vacation in England, and we actually got to see the London debut of Hair; which for a kid not quite a teen yet was amazing. I love most of the songs from my generation, but this is definitely one of my anthems. ☮❤
Uhm, legit question: My mom told me that at the end song "Let The Sunshine In," the cast came out singin' it nude. I'm not trying to call my mom a lair, but I want to hear it from someone who actually saw it. Sooo... did that really happen?
@@MeanGreenMotherFrom Legit: of course at the performance we saw they were bathed in black light; which was still daring for the times. Also at the beginning of the show, everyone in the audience got some psychedelia flyers which if you turned it a certain way showed a swirly lined abstract of a full figured nude lady. 🕊❤
@@waynezimmerman1950 Sweeet. If you don't mind me asking sir, what year did you see the play?
@@MeanGreenMotherFrom Probably around 1972.
@@waynezimmerman1950 Coool. Thank you sir, it was nice talking to you. Have a happy night. Sleep sweetly and dream peacefully. Good night sir!
I was 14 when the runaway Broadway hit musical, "Hair" came out as a movie.
As a toddler of the 60s, coming of age in the 70s/80s and a 2x Viet Nam Vet as a father, this movie was a LOT more resonant for me and my generation than it can ever be for any subsequent generations who are likely to miss the nuances surrounding that period and that are constantly referenced in this classic film.
A whole different plane. A whole 'nother time.
The original production of HAIR was infamous for having the whole cast nude on stage. The cast was a mix of Broadway actors and actual recruited hippies. Just a huge work of counterculture!
And yet, somehow, this film got the PG rating... crazy!
@@elijahvincent985i believe OP is referring to the original stage production of HAIR, not the film.
The songs from this musical were immensely popular in the day. Easy to be Hard was covered by 3 Dog Night peaked at number 4. Good Morning Starshine covered by Oliver peaked at number 3. The song "Hair" (by the Cowsills) was kept out of the number-one spot by another song from the Hair cast album: "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by The 5th Dimension.
Listen, you're talking to the wrong person....she has no clue.
Hi Ashleigh, Graeme from Australia here. I played Berger in a production of Hair in 1981 when I was just 18 years old .I have always loved the film but it bears little resemblance to the original stage play. It was such an amazing experience being in this wonderful ensemble cast being hippies in a post punk world. We definitely got into character in in terms of the "stuff ". I remember those times with great affection and nostalgia
"I was not ready for any of this!"
Yeah, Ash..... those of us who lived through that era already knew that. But damn was it fun watching you REALLY show off your "Awkward" side with this one! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
To answer a question you had, LSD and acid are the same thing. The LS in LSD stands for lysergic acid. You're right about doses being on paper, called blotter acid. But it was sometimes put on a sugar cube, as shown in the movie.
My mom saw the play Hair in London in 1969 and loved it.
Yes, LSD is a liquid that can be put in anything, paper, sugar cubes, and as Ken Kesey did in his infamous acid test parties orange Kool-aid.
R.I.P Treat been absolutely in love with man and his work every sense this movie an absolute total classic just watched it a few days again for the 100th time as soon as i heard he passed...thank you Ashleigh for honoring Treat Williams HE'S A BIG DEAL AND A GREAT GUY ...LOVE YOU GUY❤❤❤
Different strokes, I guess. Hair is my favorite musical. The songs are catchy, the choreography is great, but what I love is that it challenges me every step of the way. I think that's a good thing. Personally, I'm a straight-backed conservative from Mississippi. I'm a Claude. But I love that Hair shows the weaknesses in both approaches to life, and that the real challenge is living your own truth no matter which pack you run with. I get that it shocked you. I hope you someday give it another chance. There's a lot there.
@mrkelso I'm across the pond (Holland), and I grew up on this movie/musical (and Jesus Crist Superstar and Cabaret) as a GenX child of (European) hippie Boomer parents. Your comment resonates with me because whatever 'pack' I ran with, I was rarely all-in but always ready to debate differences. I wouldn't call myself a conservative today, but as a disaffected liberal I'd vote for a European Trump if we had one, and yes, I also still really like this movie.
Speaking of Different Strokes, Mrs. Garrett at the dinner. 😂
@@markcalvert7944 And The Facts of Life
Twyla Tharp's choreography is everything.
Hair is one of those movies that got full on ugly crying at the end the first time I saw it (back when I was 12, great choice to show a child that age). Since then it basically became a part of my soul.
I haven't even clicked play, but just seeing the thumbnail right now I was in tears. Not only because I've never seen a reaction to this movie (much less by one of my faves on YT), but also in deep appreciation that you chose to commemorate Treat Williams passing.
A- automatic Like, B- thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤
Now, I'mmana watch it
Post watching thoughts:
1.Seeing this at a young age may be the reason I never went too deep into substances
2. It's totally ok if this movie wasn't for you. I fell in love with the songs quite young, but it took me years to fully understand the plot and the historical context. It's not an easily digested movie
3. I cried again seeing Berger's headstone. It both hits differently now - and brings back the feels I always get from this scene
RIP Treat Williams 😢 You will be Missed😢
I'm SO glad you watched this, Ashleigh! It was my mom's favorite musical, and a guilty pleasure of hers. She was a protesting counter-culture type in the 60's, and my dad didn't know that about her until after they were married. He strongly disapproved, and she sort-of buckled under for him, but she always remembered the feeling of love and compassion and pure 'life' from being there. She shared the musical with me as a kid, and while I didn't understand much of it until I was much, much older, it was something that made her smile, and that meant the world to me.
“Why does this seem like a scary movie?” For those of us who love their hair long, it can be.
Acid is LSD. It comes in pill, blotter (paper), and sugar cube. That is nothing like an acid trip. I once saw a Ford Mustang Melt, but it was actually there. You don't dream like John Savage did.
I have my hair all the way down to my butt, I often have haircut nightmares, so you're not wrong lmao
My dad took my sister and I to see this in the theater. I was 13, she was 15. I think he might have been a bit horrified by the language and nudity on display, but he didn’t make us leave, and Mom didn’t complain when we bought the soundtrack record and had it spinning on the turntable nonstop.
Groovy. 😉
“Oh say, can you see, my eyes, if you can than my hair is to short!” Love that line.
It's always been my favorite from that song.
It needs to be seen on stage. It is absolutely electric and emotional.
I love how Beverly D’Angelo who plays Sheila, plays Patsy Cline in Coal Miners Daughter the next year, then three years later plays Ellen Griswold in Vacation, a most iconic movie character!
Let's not forget when she was in High Spirits ..
I think Ashleigh would get a kick out of High Spirits.
@@itzakpoelzig330 especially with a young Liam Neeson in it LOL
I still love Treat Williams because of this film. I got smile from him on set of some TV movie or other a few years ago. Such a handsome man with what seemed like a good heart.I hope someone told you Treat played Burger.
Hair was first performed while the Vietnam war was still going and there was a massive anti-war sentiment in the culture. It defined a generation. I cannot overstate that point.
When Jonathon Larson wrote RENT he wanted to do the same thing, for the AIDS epidemic and living in NYC at the turn or the 90's. If you haven't seen RENT, I'd recommend it.
😕 The Movie is meh. The Stage Version is better. Chris Columbus? San Francisco subbing for NYC? And with virtually the whole play being sung, I'm not sure it's react-to-able.
John Savage played Claude. Hair was a musical that was sandwiched in between two harrowing films Savage was in: 1978’s The Deer Hunter, and the 1980 true crime story The Onion Field. Two films that will rip your heart out.
"We're getting a song about his hair?" Why yes, Ashleigh, the movie's called Hair. 🙂And yeah! Barbecue pork with cole slaw and Memphis style sauce! I prefer Carolina style but Memphis sauce is awesome!
RIP to Treat. He was such a great actor.
And although the Broadway cast album was a hit, the song was an even bigger hit for the Cowsills' kickass cover: ruclips.net/video/Qt_yKPNORLM/видео.html
North Carolina or South Carolina?
@@RichardX1 Texas?
The lady dancing on the table in the pink dress was Charlotte Rae. She was most famous for playing Mrs Garrett on both Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life.
He was in Dolly's movie "Christmas on the Square." Dolly was the Angel, Christine Baranski was Regina Scrooge & Treat was Carl, Regina's high school sweetheart who is picked to save the day. Treat had a successful career in both big screen & little screen movies, most recently on the Hallmark Channel. Even if the production sucked, Treat's performance made it bearable. He will be missed.
I always enjoyed watching him chew the scenery as the villain in The Phantom. He was certainly having fun there.
"The Ritz" is my favorite, super-hilarious Treat Williams (with Rita Moreno)
The Broadway soundtrack is one of the greatest albums of the 60s. "Let The Sunshine In" chills me every time I hear it.
And it must have been a hell of an experience live on the stage. I was in NYC twice while it was still playing but never thought of seeing it.
Even for me, who had never seen this movie, this song is iconic.
I wasn't even alive for the original Broadway run. My parents had the soundtrack from it.
@@JoeCool7835 It is great music.
Couldn’t disagree more pure trash
Hubby did two tours in Vietnam and made it out alive in '68. He was at WOODSTOCK. He even made it into the movie. I on the other hand was a freshman in high school in '68/'69 and didn't meet and marry him till the summer of '71. LSD/Acid are the same thing. Liquid one drop on a sugar cube or paper square. Then there are Magic Mushrooms or Peyote. I grew up in the '60,s and early '70s. Yes, Old hippy here. I remember in high school you could buy almost anything in the school bathrooms. They weren't just smoking cigarettes in there.
After Hair opened on off-Broadway in 1967, it went to Broadway in 1968, where it ran for about 1700 performances. That's why, although it was a late 70's film, it had a very 60's feel to it, both in subject matter, and soundtrack. Treat Williams, who starred in this film, had earlier appeared as Danny Zuko in Grease on Broadway late in its run, although he did not originate the role.
the upper class girl is Beverly D'Angelo also played "Hellen Griswold" in the National Lampoon "Vacation" movies (Clark's Wife)
Treat Williams was awesome as Andy Brown in Everwood 🏞️
I'm 54 and I still jam to this soundtrack.
I was in a production of Hair at my college in 2010. One of my favorite things I've ever done. I was basically the only non-theater kid in the whole production. The movie makes a whole bunch of changes to the story, but maintains a lot of the themes and almost all of the songs.
Also, that scene in basic you asked about is a real thing, often referred to as the "Gas Chamber." It serves two purposes. One, you get training on how to properly wear your gas mask and confidence that it actually works. Two, you get to experience tear gas in a confined space, which is just SOOOO much fun /s.
Went to F&M College with Treat and knew him when I lived in New York. The guy was genuine and smart. Having said that, no 70 year old should be riding a motorcycle.
True, but it was a car that crashed into him.
As a veteran I can attest that the basic training scenes and exposure to CS gas are spot on accurate for the 70s time period. By FAR the best soundtrack of original music EVER!
This was the 60s actually but I will assume it was true of the early 70s as well.
First time I saw Treat Williams was in Speilberg’s “1941,” at the theater, when it was first released.
I saw the Broadway revival of HAIR like ten years ago and I found it so surprising that a show that has mostly songs that are LISTS of things, and yet such an incredible emotional impact.
So did I. At the end we got up on the stage and sang Let the Sunshine with the cast and other audience members. I think that It was a little more then 10 years, but the years are starting to blend together.
@xman559 shoot it might be fifteen at this point
The original stage production of hair was in 1967. The entire cast performed the second act in au natural.
Several songs were big hits (Aquarius, Hair). Yes, the 70s were like this( Early 70s, anyway), and this play is still in production in many local theaters. It was a big hit on Broadway several years before it was made into a movie.byw. Treat Williams was Berger.
The actual stage play is so much better then the movie version.
"Pink Dress Lady" was a very familiar face on TV during the time this movie came out: Charlotte Rae. She is best remembered as the kind housekeeper Edna Garrett on "Diff'rent Strokes," which was about two black boys from Harlem (Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges) being taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman (Conrad Bain). After the 1st season Edna Garrett got her own spin-off series "The Facts of Life," where she is a housemother/matriarch for a group of girls at an all-girls boarding school. In later seasons, the show is also where George Clooney got his start. From what I've heard about Charlotte Rae she was a very nice woman. She is unfortunately no longer with us though, as she passed away in 2018.
Don't forget her dual role (Ms Cackle and Agatha) in the Classic, "THE WORST WITCH", also staring Fairuza Balk...
@@tjfrizzi5965 I haven't watched The Worst Witch since I was a kid, so I honestly forgot she was in that!
I was born in 1978, but my parents loved the music of their generation, so that's mostly what they listened to, so it's the music I love the most. (theoretically, those of my age should love 80s and 90s music, the pop soundtrack of our formative school years. But I love the music of the 50s and 60s the most. Also the 70s. And back into the 40s- though that is a whole different vibe.)
All that is to say that the music of "Hair" was well known to my ears and heart, from as far back as I can remember. Since late grade school through high school and through to today, I (a man) have always loved my hair long. "Hair," the song, has been my theme tune for decades. A few years back, I finally got to be in a stage production of the show, and sing my song out loud and proud. Love it.
The film does swerve away from the stage show quite a bit here and there. But the spirit still comes through, I think.
A lot of people tend to assume that "Hair," the ultimate hippie musical, was written by a bunch of hippies. But it wasn't! It was written by some fairly strait-laced musical theatre writers, who wanted to capture the zeitgeist of the hippie movement. And they succeeded!
April 18, 1979. I walked from my hotel in downtown Miami to a theater to see this movie. I remember the date clearly because I was in the hotel to get on a plane the next morning to go to basic training. Needless to say I was terrified when I boarded that plane.
Edit: My hair was not cut from sept 75 to april 19, 1979. It was very long. That buzz cut sucked. The song "Hair" was in my head all day that day.
Edit 2: No. This is not the 70s. The Broadway hit musical was in the 60s. The movie wasn't made until the late 70s. But it still portrays the late 60s.
The first time I remember seeing Treat Williams was in "Prince of the City."
oh I'm hyped for this reaction! one of my favorite musicals and movies ever!
Edit: it's okay it didn't vibe with you imo. the whole subject matter of what and why Hippies were, the questioning of old social roles and ways of living, the US' role in Vietnam, the view of the army etc... that's all bound to be very far away from your generation... and that's okay. it is admittedly quite the trip. still glad you gave it a shot!
“Prince of the City” is a good Treat Williams movie but it is nearly 3 hours long. It is based on a true story too.
My favorite Treat Williams movie was Prince of the City. He was part of an elite NYC police detective unit, and discovered that the others were actually corrupt cops. It was in 1980 so not long after this film.
1981, actually. Treat should have earned an Oscar nomination. Great film from Sidney Lumet. At the end of the film, Bruce Willis plays one of the police cadets.
@@Madbandit77 My bad, it was just a typo. Thank you for the correction. I also didn't know about Willis being in it, that's very cool.
Treat Williams was a terrific actor and he deserved a better career, but he was great in this and Prince of the City. RIP
Hit versions of the songs were played on radio late 60s/early 70s after Hair debuted: The Cowsills: HAIR 🧑🏽🦱; Oliver: GOOD MORNING STARSHINE✨; The Fifth Dimension: AQUARIUS♒/LET THE SUNSHINE IN🌞; Three Dog Night: EASY TO BE HARD💔
The song that is the title of this Film was recorded and a popular hit single for a band called the Cowsills. The Cowsills were a family band literally. 4 brothers and their younger sister and later their Mom. They were the real life inspiration for "The Partridge Family" In fact, the band was supposed to star in the TV series until they were told Shirley Jones would play their mother. They refused. They wanted their actual mother to star.
The song the woman sang when they were walking away from her and her son. "Easy to be hard" Was a hit for Three Dog Night in 1969. You know, you could start an entire new Channel just watching old TV shows and listening to classic songs both of which you probably never heard of.
Joyful Monday Ashleigh
First, YES, "Hair" is still in production not ONLY in community theaters, but I am sure there was recently a "Hair" Production on Broadway (I think I saw it nominated in the "revival" category of the Tony Awards in '23) and in LA. I think is currently on stage in Chicago.
Treat Williams is the guy in the jean jacket vest. The same guy that later is dancing on the long table.
The 'pink lady' is Charlotte Rae, character actress and singer. A year before this film, she would go on to play Edna Garrett on "Diff'rent Strokes" and (during this same year and for the next 7 years) the spin-off show, "Facts of Life". She was also a season theater actress by the time of this film until 2000in "Pippin" at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey.
The Debutante Sheila franklin is Beverly D'Angelo who was the mom (Ellen Griswold) in the "National Lampoons' Vacation" film series, Patsy Cline in "Coal Miner's Daughter, Doris Vinyard in "American History X", Alma in "Lonely Hearts", Sally in "Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay", and Mrs. Hagstrom in "House Bunny", just to name a few of her many credits.
Yes the late 60s and early 70s were something like this, but this film is more exaggerated than the ACTUAL hippie counterculture was in its time.
Sheila has to be more 'prissy' because she comes from a staunch 'straight-lace' conservative family as seen by the guests and the guy that throws them out.
No you do not need to be 'elevated' to understand it. You just need to understand the references and history of the time when this is happening. So many things will naturally be harder to understand, sorry.((
Don't really understand why this was #1 for Treat Williams. Personally, I would have recommended the even better films and performances: "Deep End of the Ocean" (1999), "The Phantom" (1996) (another superhero film), "Flashpoint" (1984), or even "Deep Rising" (in the same venue / vibe as "Tremors" or "Lake Placid").
To answer 2 of your last questions, maybe in Vietnam was a little different, but deployments would usually take longer than 8 hrs to take off. At the time it came out in '79, it was relatively well received both the original "rock musical" and the film, the stage musical more than the film.
Have a great week. See you back on Friday....
"What is this? What are practicing, pepper spray?"
Army vet here. When I went through basic training in 1992, it was called the NBC (Nuclear/Biological/Chemical) gas chamber and the Army can say whatever they want, but I still believe to this day that it was just done for funsies!
Plot twist, none of us had fun that day.
Hair is one my favourite musicals. Seen it on stage several times. Love this movie too.
@TeIegmMrs_AshleighBurton. Hello?
One of my Very Favorite All-Time Movies. So many levels, the message, the music, the visuals, the cast. One of the great all time movies/musicals.
I saw this movie at the Greenwich theater in NYC in 1979 and was crying walking down 6th Avenue after it was over. I was bummed all day.
This has always been one of my favorite films (such great music! so many cute guys! so much sass!). It was a genius move to get Twyla Tharp to do the choreography; her loose-limbed, trippy style fit perfectly in this film. I especially love the moment when all the dancers suddenly go into slow motion, it's such a perfect encapsulation of being really stoned. (You saw Twyla during Claude's acid trip. She's the priestess suspended in mid-air who officiates his wedding to Sheila.)
Sheila's weirdness and her dancing around what she means was par for the course in the 60's. Girls could not say straight out that they wanted this guy or that guy, or that they didn't want this guy or that guy. It was a whole tangled structure of hints and flirts and pretense and the most nerve-wracking tightrope walking around the subject of men and reputations. Sheila's not being manipulative; she's trying. She really likes these people, and she's trying to take part. But it's not her world. She's maneuvering her way through an intensely weird situation with people she would never normally have come in contact with, and trying to do it without being mean or hurtful. That kind of thing is hard now and was even harder back then, and I give credit to girls who were able to do it successfully. Sheila managed to work her way through this to real change. (Whether it was for the better remained to be seen. That last show of them standing around Berger's grave was incredibly symbolic, a reflection of the hippie generation looking back on what had happened after a whole decade.)
On another note: I haven't seen this mentioned yet, so I thought you'd like to know - the stage show "Hair" has little to nothing to do with the movie "Hair". Other than the songs and the names of the characters, the only thing that connects them is the problem of one of them having to deal with the draft. Milos Forman loved the idea of making the movie but realized very quickly that the stage show just didn't have the kind of plot structure you need in movies, i.e., you need _some_ kind of a story. So they made one up around the content of the songs (which don't make a whole lot of sense anyway). It's an interesting hybrid, in that rather than making a movie about actual hippies, it's a movie about the late 70's _idea_ of what the hippies were. (All of that was fairly recent, and their were a LOT of opinions about what had happened, as well as a lot of fresh memories.)
Acid is the common name for LSD. Dealers had it on tabs because it was easy to transport that way; they would buy the liquid and then puts drops on paper. When the drug was distributed at parties or events (yes, people really did this but carefully because you could easily be arrested), it was usually a drop on a sugar cube. Quick ingestion, a burst of energy, and it had a nice taste. (Plus there was a childlike connotation to it, as some vaccinations were given the same way back then, so it felt like "medicine".)
"Hair" was originally a1968 musical/play (which would explain all the drugs, hippies, and weird dancing, lol). It was so popular it was adapted into a movie.
From Wikipedia:
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and 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 work 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.
1. This is the musical GOAT! Even better than "Grease" and "Tommy"😁
2. My High School drama class wanted to do this play but it was shot down and
we had to go through the community players because of the content. I played George but didn't need that wig.🙄
3. I was in the US Navy and when I was in Singapore I snagged this soundtrack on cassettes for only $4😎
4. Woof/Don Dacus was a bass player for the band "Chicago" from time to time.
5. Hud/Dorcey Wright had a very short role in "The Warriors".
6. Al Pacino is a lucky man. He gave Beverly D'Angelo twins.😍😍
7. This was Nell Carter's debut Hollywood gig.
8. The skinny guy/Sheldon with the pink toenails was Michael Jeter from "The Green Mile". He later died from AIDS😇 (Maybe that's why Percy kept calling him faggot)
9. Best song, "How can people be so heartless". Cheryl Barnes KILLS
10. Milos Forman directed this. He also directed "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest"
11. Copyright's a bitch man😭
12. GOOF: This was Vietnam era (before O'Commie) so any vehicle going on base required a driver's license, proof of insurgence and a military ID. Burger couldn't just drive in like he does.
13. Somebody would have noticed the George wasn't Claude.
14. The look on Claude's face. Being former/retired Military that would be the look on my face if I missed movement. 😱
15. George didn't last long (no training) Headstone says April. At least they got his name right.
16. Favorite character: Jeanie😍😛
17. RIP Treat Williams.😇
Donnie Dacus played guitar for Chicago, not bass. He replaced the band's original guitarist, the great Terry Kath, who accidentally killed himself with a handgun in 1978.
Also, the real title of the song you called "How Can People Be So Heartless" is "Easy to Be Hard". Three Dog Night had a major hit with it in 1969.
williamjones6031:
1) It's definitely subjective. There are better musicals than this, including Grease, Victor/Victoria, golden age of Hollywood musicals, several Disney musicals, Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story. Great songs, though.
In my opinion, of course. haha.
12/15: It seems that the military stuff was more an idea of what people might've thought the military was like rather than what it was actually like. Hence, the higher-ups couldn't tell one soldier from another, they would have sent him to fight despite knowing he wasn't trained instead of sending him back home, not paying attention to protocol, etc.
I never believed he would not been found during basic routine checks, layovers, and Claude's bunkmates saying something to someone about it. No squad would be interested in going into battle with someone who didn't even know how to salute, much less help them survive. They would've talked.
So, I always thought they either crashed or an unexpected situation occurred that took Berger's life rather than he went into the jungles of Vietnam and fought the Viet Cong
@@LA_HA It is subjective. If everyone liked the same thing it would be a very disappointing place to live. One of the unintended consequences is the lack of choice, be it music, movies or even sports teams. I crowed about this because I happen to like/love this and shared. I thought it's what we're supposed to be doing.
@@williamjones6031 Yes. But, don't forget, if you share, people can comment and share, too. And they won't always agree. All we can hope for is to avoid the usual trolls calling people names or being obnoxious to others, which I think is improving.
Any way, we both like this musical. Just to different degrees. And that's great
@@LA_HA We did it civilly and without being nasty about it, too bad most differences can't be handled the same way.
Pink dress lady was Charlotte Rae, she played in the Facts of Life TV series as Mrs. Garrett.
Excellent performer.
And on a different note, when you see the plane being loaded up with the troops heading to the front lines in the Vietnam conflict.
Life expectancy for a Combat Soldier on the Front Lines of Battle with /against the Viet-Cong Soldiers was less than fifteen minutes long.
It was a horrible thing for our Soldiers to endure.
War is never the answer.
I love the music of Hair, im too young to have had an emotional reaction to the story but it was deeply formative for my parents and a week didnt go by that this didnt play during my childhood. This story may not seem to hold up but the message of love yourself, be yourself and love everyone else too is timeless.
The Woodstock concerts were in 1969, this movie is set in the late 1960s although released in 1979 about the hippies era.
Hair came out first as an off-Broadway play back in 1967, so it's about the late 60s, not the 70s. I remember back when I was young, my English class in elementary school had a school trip to see Hair on Broadway. In theory, all I needed was a parent's signature. But I was younger than everyone else (I was a few grades ahead in math and English), and they decided to let the rest of my class go to see it, but I was too young (damn) -- after all, the play was notorious for full frontal nudity on stage. But it was very different times, and New York was pretty liberal, and my parents were very liberal, so they did bring me to R/M-rated movies if they thought the movie was acceptable.
P.S. Oh boy. Yes, it WAS true. Back then, married guys with their first child on the way weren't drafted. Rules change from era to era. It's worth noting. And yes, things really were like this in the 60s. Depending on where in the country you were. My mom told me the story once that she and her friends hitchhiked from here in NE Ohio to upstate NY, headed for Niagara Falls. She said they wouldn't let them in because they didn't have shoes, so they went to Woodstock instead. My jaw hit the floor so hard it nearly broke. These were different times. Double bonus points for reading the Brooks autobio. I read that, too. Enjoyed it immensely!
Just to be clear. Though this movie was released in 1979 - the tail end of the Disco era, it is actually set about ten years before. The Hippy era was more or less 1966 - 1973. Many Pop stars covered songs from this musical - Aquarius/ Let the Sun Shine In by The Fifth Dimension (1969), Easy To Be Hard by Three Dog Night (1969), Good Morning Starshine by Donovan (1969) and Hair by The Cowsills (1969).
I watched this video twice and just now realized the pink dress lady at 10:20 , 10:36 was Mrs.Garret from the show the facts of life
Love Twyla Tharp’s choreography!!
Not going to scroll through all the comments to see if it's come up, but I'd like to toss in that the director of this film adaptation, Milos Forman, had an ongoing theme of rebellion through his films. He had started out in the former Czechoslovakia making anti-government satires like THE FIREMAN'S BALL, and emigrated with many of his friends to America to continue his film career. He broke out huge with an adaptation of another hit play, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST with Jack Nicholson, and after this, made the film adaptation of AMADEUS. Then he made a pair of biopics written by the team of Larry Karaszewski & Scott Alexander, THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT, with Woody Harrelson as the infamous pornographer who won a Supreme Court case against him, and MAN ON THE MOON, about the innovative comedian Andy Kaufman. They're all pretty great.
Also, I would strongly recommend another film that John Savage, who plays the "straight" kid who trades places with Treat Williams' character, made around the same time as this one, called CUTTER'S WAY, with Jeff Bridges from THE BIG LEBOWSKI. it's a murder mystery where he plays a bitter Vietnam vet who lost an arm and a leg who fixates on solving a crime. In a sense, it plays as if his character from HAIR did end up going to war and survived.
Get ready for the best musical theater experiences of your life sweetheart! XO 😉💜😎 THANKS Treat for everything you gave us from day one through your decades with us. The full ride of your career you took me on that I witnessed has been nothing less than a thrill and pure awesomeness. THIS was part of the soundtrack of my life as I went to protests with both my brothers who had their draft cards and we're waiting to get called up to go over to Vietnam. I was so happy when they brought this to Broadway. #ENDTHEVIETNAMWAR
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60's not 70's well, early 70's as well, and Greatful Dead shows until Jerry died. This movie was made in late 70's , but it is based on a play from 1967 just before woodstock.
it was a different time, Ashleigh. it debuted on Broadway in the 60's, when all those things that were talked about were going on: generations clashing, views on the war clashing, people got caught in the middle. it took over 10 years for this musical to be made. i remember being so excited to finally get to see it when the movie came out because i had grown up with the stories about the stage production. i had a friend who saw the original cast on stage in San Francisco. at the end everyone took off their clothes and went up on stage to dance. (her friend restrained her) it was a very different time. it's ok if it's not for you. young people express themselves in a much different way now.
@Te-Legram-Me-AshleighBurton1. you are a scammer. i'm reporting you.
Awwww man, I was hoping you'd like this more. I LOVE 'Hair' the show and, as divisive as this film adaptation is, this is honestly one of my favorite movies of all time.
If you decide to give Treat Williams a second chance, I would suggest the 1976 "The Ritz". It shows his comedic talent.
So does "1941", when Wendie Jo Sperber is chasing him all over the place! 🤣😅😂
I am SO GLAD you watched this. Never in my wildest dreams did I think they'd force you to do it but here we are and you have never been more confused and I am LIVING LOL. Fever dream is exactly what this musical is.
Yes, this show does still work its way through community theatres. I saw a local production of it back in 2011 to support the cast, most of who were my friends. Although, one friend gave me a lapdance during one of the songs because she wasn't fond of my girlfriend (sitting beside me). Fun show!
Also, Woodstock was in '69. And acid IS LSD. Acid is the street name. But yes, it usually comes soaked into little strips of paper, but you can saturate basically anything with it. There's an acid-dipped cigarette in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that seems to do wonders.
Woodstock took place 10 years before this movie was released, in 1969. "Hair" opened on Broadway in 1968. So, the Vietnam War...the hippie movement...the clothes...all of it was over by 1979. The last Broadway revival of "Hair" was in 2010.
Commenting before watching: I'm interested to see how Ashley edits this one. Reacting to a musical is never easy on RUclips, and the songs are the whole reason for this movie.
Milos Forman had fled from Czechoslovakia in 1968. The scene in Central Park is his description of his first day in the US. And, it all seemed as foreign to him as to Claude.
Wow...two out of five stars. That's pretty rare. Love Ashleigh's honest reviews...they can't all be winners. lol
The point for me ... was Claude not considering Berger a friend, and telling him as much .... and then Berger taking Claude's place on the battle field, and losing his life, out of friendship and respect for Claude. I am a 73 year old vietnam veteran, who tears up every time I see this film, and I own it on DVD, and I have watched it about once a year .... (though my first time watching was in the early 2000's ... and I was living that. Regarding the 'hippies' the gathering and dancing did happen, stoned, listening to music, but it wasn't a daily thing. Big city parks ... on weekends ... where there is enough 'nature' you can enjoy it. Acid ... and LSD are the same thing ... regarding trips (I did most of mine ... while in the Navy, 20 years old, and dealing with mortality as I prepared to set sail to vietnam. Acid trips to me, were up to the individual ... you might see images, moving shadows, bright colors ... I never saw a dream like sequence ... but I suppose it could happen. It is up to the mental state of the person taking the drug.
the movie came out in 1979 but it takes place in 1969. It's not the movie that was the big deal, rather it was the Broadway musical which featured the opening scene with all the hippies dancing in the park nude (they cleaned it up for the movie) and yes, the '60s and '70s were like that. This was the era of free-love. And during Vietnam, the draft board wouldn't take men who were married with children. People also used to pretend to be gay, go to jail, or shoot themselves in the foot to avoid going to Vietnam.
LSD and acid are the same thing. LSD is a liquid that you can either put on paper (blotter) or drop into a sugar cube to cover the bitter taste.
Ashleigh, you need to take a history class, sister. You don't know much about history.
Fun Fact: There actually was a "pregnant wife" draft deferral - it's why my Dad didn't end up going. He had literally already had his physical when my mom got the test results.
Top 5 fave films. This started my love for Treat Williams.(My mom's too. The running joke in our house was, whenever you asked mom what she wanted she'd ask for a chocolate treat.... Treat Williams dipped in chocolate) He's also an entrepreneur, and a versatile actor and musician.
Hair, the musical Was a ground breaking Award winning musical. It was the first musical to feature full nudity. The songs and concept were controversial. It ran for decades.
In the movie Sheila was played by Beverly D'Angelo who was also in High Spirits, and Vacation. Berger was Treat Williams, a really versatile actor, Wulf(the blonde guy) was a very famous guitarist with a huge band(I forget which one at the moment) Loved this movie since the day it came out. Weird thing, where they had the picnic? They built houses there. The house I live in now is on that land.
"It was more like Locker room nudity".
@@knoahbody69 True, because if the actors on stage moved, the production would get slapped with a charge, so at the end of let the sunshine in the cast would disrobe and stand there solemnly. It was scandalous in the day.
Woof was played by Donnie Dacus, who was the guitarist in the band Chicago for a couple of albums in the late '70s.
@@gregsager2062 thanks I blanked
I didn't know they made a Hair movie! And directed by Milos Forman? What an odd thing to come out in 1979, the flower power/free love and Vietnam war was well finished by then, this was the height of the disco era. The musical was a smash hit in the late 60's and most of the songs are still popular today. My girlfriend still sings the first couple of lines "Good morning starshine" to me every day.
This is one of those movies where "elevated" is definitely an option. And in case you missed her, that was Beverly D'Angelo (Vacation series).
Jesus Christ Superstar is another of that era that you might want to check out
And you were saying about how much the Mall has changed "just since the 70s"...that was 40+ years ago
Lol that's what I was thinking. She should have been elevated during this one! And Jesus Christ Superstar is amazing 🤩 hopefully she watches it someday
@@sammybear7100 Another vote for Jesus Christ Superstar from me. It's my favorite musical/rock opera ever. I first saw it on the original Broadway run in New York when I was 7 years old (November 1971). I then saw it a year later when a touring production came to Columbus, Ohio. The year after that, the movie came out.
In 1995, I saw another touring stage production that had Ted Neely and Carl Anderson (R.I.P.) playing their roles of Jesus and Judas as in the film.
I've seen both the John Legend and Sebastian Bach versions, but they pale in comparison to the original and the film. And of course, the original album with Ian Gillan (of Deep Purple fame) as Jesus.
@@jodonnell64 Funny thing about Jesus Christ Superstar. Ted Neely has been playing Jesus longer than Jesus played Jesus.
@@jodonnell64 dude I got to meet Ted Neely at a screening recently and he was sooo nice!! Have you heard the 1992 Australian cast recording with John Farnham?? It's probably one of my favorite versions, they modernized the music but kept the same passion.
John Farnham's Gethsemane is freaking awesome!! ruclips.net/video/yZzC_GoSmLs/видео.html
The original Broadway sountrack is one of my favorite albums of all time. And I saw a live production of this about 10 years ago and loved it so much that I went to see it again the next night.
Hair 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 that ran for 1,997 performances. Since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world. The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. During the final number, the cast would invite the audience up on stage to sing and dance along. It was really something to be a part of. You might want to now see "Jesus Christ Superstar".
You might want to now see "Godspell".
"....seasoned flavorful meat?!?!?" What a comment!!! Hahahahaha!!!!! Always a fun time seeing your reactions. :)
The movie was incredible. The songs, the drama, and acting was phenomenal. When Berger sacrifices himself for Claude it gets me every time.
I wouldn't worry about your reaction. It makes a lot of sense to be frank. A lot of time has passed between the "hippie era" and now. Not only are a lot of attitudes around social culture different, but the sentiments towards war and the draft in the 70's stem back to WWII. It honestly makes sense that this movie wouldn't be very relatable in most regards anymore, as one no longer needs to rebel against conformity to choose your own path in life. Conversely one could even make the argument that it may become relevant again in the future as it seems that a lot of 50s values seem to be creeping their way back into American culture. Either way your honest reaction is always what we ask for, and in he regard you delivered! Thanks for watching!
Hair is still produced. There was a 50th anniversary revival and tour in the UK in 2019. Amateur groups will sometimes perform it as well. A group local to me performed it in the 80’s. Nudity was optional for the cast, but by the end of the week all were nude. Just something about the show that fosters a community on stage and an openness to trying different things. I was under 18 at the time so only helped build the set. No minors backstage and restrictions for ticket sales.
I liked him as the villain in "The Phantom" (1996).
This is a musical that really depended on the historical context. It is hard to understand too far away from then, unless you have absorbed a lot of hippy history. Even when the movie came out, it seemed to have lost some of its edge from the original stage musical. I still love a lot of the music - I listened to the album a lot as a very small child.
Hair was a musical that profited from and semi documented the counter culture of the late 60's. If you want to know more about the time read Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." It tells a little about The Beat Generation and then goes into the Hippie movement and the Merry Pranksters. Having come of age in the late 60's and early 70's all one can say is that you had to be there. The cultural upheaval from WW2 and the 50's to the civil rights, women's rights, and Vietnam war - free love, drugs, and rock and roll.
I knew you wouldn't like it, but I'm glad you watched it. I absolutely love this movie. Probably seen it 200+ times. Love the soundtrack. The girl that played Jeanne also played Norma in Orange Is The New Black.
1979 senior in high school, Went to the DRIVEIN with a Bunch of my friends All Of Us High as a Kite sat outside on car singing every song to the top of our Lungs .. GREAT MEMORY