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Article: A Hair Out of Place
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- Opera News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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It has happened to Mozart, it has happened to Verdi, and God knows it has happened to Wagner. But who would have dreamed it could happen to the Broadway musical?
I refer to the total makeover of a stage work at the hands of the psycho director. Last fall, I was visiting family in Basel, Switzerland's second-largest city and an ancient seat of learning. (Erasmus died here.) And what had just opened at Theater Basel but a brand-new production of Hair, a show I feel like I've known line-by-line forever. Back in 1968, my Titian-haired great aunt Pat (Mame to two generations of nieces and nephews) scandalized the clan by spiriting me off to see the show on Broadway, full frontal nudity and all. ...