Broadway had never seen anything like “Hair,” when the anti-establishment musical premiered 50 years ago this month.
Shortly before “Hair” opened at Broadway’s Biltmore Theater on April 29,1968 — 50 years ago this month — Variety reported, “The musical is vehemently anti-establishment and pro-dissenting youth.” Before then, most plays, films and TV shows had avoided antiwar protests and the sexual revolution, or mentioned those topics as a way of reasserting middle-class […]
