ABSTRACT
Groans of dismay and disbelief greeted the announcement that the New York Shakespeare Festival would celebrate its fortieth anniversary in August 2007 with a revival of Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical at the Delacourt Theatre in Central Park. After all, a 1977 Broadway revival had opped and the 1979 movie directed by Milos Forman suffered the same fate. Hair, Joseph Papp’s inaugural downtown production, just seemed irrelevant and silly to a millennial generation that was nonchalantly enduring two wars and living inside an economic bubble that was soon to burst. The Age of Aquarius had passed and the musical that dened it was best left undisturbed.
