Original Broadway Cast Members and HAiR TRiBES Reunions
The HAiR Tribes
™© Natoma Productions is Michaels production company.
Saturday April 29th 2006
The 28th Anniversary Reunion in NYC of HAiR.
and
The 50th Anniversary Reunion produced by Neal Bennington at The Cutting Room in NYC. This was June 18th 2018.
Thank you Jim Rado for your love on this special evening.
Thank you Avanti Clear Light Concerts & Mike Blaxill
Alisa Farina, Producer; Anastasia Oleinikov, Associate Producer;
Robert Aberdeen, Stage Director;
and the Wagner College Mahayana Tribe's Deliteful Dozen!)
Set design and decoration by Alisa with the help of the Mahayana Tribe, and dragonfly design by Lorenzo.
Kudos and appreciation to Mike Blaxill who, with the support of Rick Ulfik of We The World, share a vision for the tribal outreach with
performance involving the Original Broadway Cast of Hair. "
In memory of Gerome Ragni and Willy Castro.
This event took place at Dillions in NYC.
Photography by Maxine Powell-Fontaine
Special thank you to Michael Butler.
Debbie Andrews - Zenobia Conkerite - James Rado -
Tom O’Horgan “The Director Biltmore Theater HAiR
Mike Blaxill
Joe Butler - Natalie Mosco
Debbie Andrews - Mudra
Dale Souls
Joanne Harris - Ulna Hedwig - Bette Miller Harlette - Debbie Andrews
Steven Curry
Sherwin - Michael
Robert I. Rubinsky - Joanne Harris - Marjorie Lipari “Mudra”
Natalie - Joe - Mudra
Natalie Mosco
Ron Shetler - Sherwin
Sherwin - Bruce - Mike Blaxill
Joanne Harris - Bob Dylan Band
Natalie - Sherwin - Peppy
Jimmie Young - Drums and Percussion
Bruce Eyster- Dale Souls (Oscar Winner Orange is the New Black)
Kathy Nixon Ingraham Russo - Sherwin - Joe Butler
Dr. Willliam Swigard - Bruce Eyster
Natalie - Sherwin - Peppy
Natalie Mosco
Dr William Swigard - Robert Camuto - Bruce Eyster
Zenobia Conkerite
Kathy Nixon Ingraham Russo - Debbie Andrews = Zenobia Conkerite
Sherwin - Bruce Eyster - Mike Blaxill
Natalie - Joe - Mudra
Peppy Castro the Blues Margo’s and Original Cast Member
Zenobia Conkerite - Joe Butler
Donny Burk
Robert Camuto
Natalie Mosco
James Rado - Ann Smith - Sherwin
Joe Butler (Loving Spoonfull)
Wilbur Bascomb Bass Guitar
James Rado
Nina Dayton HAiR Archivist
Kathy Russo Ingram
James Rado Directing Robert Camuto, Debbie Andrews, Zenobia Conkerite
Hair (musical)
| Hair | |
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| The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical | |
Original Broadway poster
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| Music | Galt MacDermot |
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| Awards | Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical |
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.[1] 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.[2]
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 serve in Vietnam, compromising his pacifist principles and risking his life.
After an off-Broadway debut on October 17, 1967, at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and a run at the Cheetah nightclub from December 1967 through January 1968, 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 that ran for 1,997 performances. Since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world, spawning dozens of recordings of the musical, including the 3 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. A Broadway revival opened in 2009, earning strong reviews and winning the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Musical. In 2008, Time wrote, "Today Hair seems, if anything, more daring than ever."[3]
Michael Butler
Sherwin / Julie Arenal Choreographer