The Deutsches Theater München presents a Produktion by Salzburger Landestheater

Plea against the war

Like no other musical, Hair is a plea against war and captures the zeitgeist of the young generation not only of the 1960s, but from the hippie movement to Fridays for Future. Thus, this rock musical about the longing for a better and more peaceful future has lost none of its power to this day. Quite the opposite. As part of the “Flower Power Festival”, we are presenting the celebrated production of the Salzburg Landestheater by director Andreas Gergen for the first time in Munich for a fortnight.

From scandal to cult hit

Hair is an energetic experience full of powerful rock music and psychedelic trips. Its raw wildness, experimental narrative form and political punch initially caused a scandal when it premiered on Broadway in 1968, but it quickly became a worldwide cult hit. For the first time, large theatres became the stage for the peace movement and the youth counterculture. Songs like “Let The Sunshine In” and “Ain’t Got No” subsequently became world hits. Hair was developed by actors Gerome Ragni (1942-1991) and James Rado (*1932) as a short autobiographically inspired OffBroadway musical. The music by Galt MacDermot (1928-2018) mixes American rock with African rhythms and finds a very individual style. In 1979, the musical was filmed by Miloš Forman.

The plot

Welcome to the “Age of Aquarius”, a time of change, a time without racism, without war. The “Tribe”, a group of alternative youths around the trio Berger, Sheila and Claude, let themselves drift through life free of imposed norms and the conventions of traditional role models. Equality, free love and peace are their maxims, but the harmony is repeatedly disturbed by the conflict between their own middle-class origins and the urge for civil disobedience.

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