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Learn what happened backstage during the creation of "Hair," the seminal 1960s musical that defined the hippie era, with | dG1fZDl0eDJXR05yaVU
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00:00We starve, look at one another short of breath, walking proudly in our winter coats, wearing smells from laboratories, facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy.
00:28Listening for the new cold lies, with supreme visions of loneliness.
00:37Rain, sunshine, rain.
00:42You would see, you know, folks in the audience, very, very conservative looking people who had come to the theater, whose minds had been blown by this thing that they'd just seen.
00:53Rain, sunshine, sunshine, sunshine.
00:56They're doing hair now and it's a show.
01:00But hair is not a show. It's a movement.
01:06By the time that hair closed on Broadway, over 30 million people had seen hair worldwide.
01:13It was the whole times, the war, the mood. That what put people together. And hair just suddenly, you know, verbalized it.
01:31Verbalized it with music, with songs. And so, you know, of course, that was like a shot of adrenaline.
01:39The Aids
01:44The Aids
01:45You

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