HAIR: The Ultimate Guide to Healthy, Beautiful Hair Forever

by James Rado and Gerome Ragni

Book Overview

LC copy is 6th printing, March 1970. Several items laid in: program for the Brooklyn Museum Art School 23rd summer session; letter with envelope from Kenneth H. Bayliss, president of the National... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671770608
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Pocket
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Walking in Space

I've been reading HAIR lately, the play version. In it the lyrics of the songs are printed in capital letters, and at first it's a tad annoying, for why do they get this special status as if they were more important than the dialogue that surrounds them? But after awhile you see why the compositor made these decisions, since the lyrics and dialogue are often interspersed and melt together in some interesting ways, and so the capital letters at least indicate to the reader when music might be imagined to underline the words. At this late date the script seems enormously juvenile, shocking for its own sake, and one wonders how generations of actors ever got their tongues around some of these constructions, for some of the speeches sound like someone stoned wrote down a few phrases and then, on sobering up, forgot what they were supposed to mean but thought, oh what the heck, let's leave them in anyway. Same with the songs I guess. Wonder why the authors of HAIR never really made another musical hit, for their inventions here are protean. For every song I've remembered from the movie or from the show, there are six or seven I don't remember and I wonder why. How about that number "Mick Jagger," sung to a poster of Jagger by a straight boy who claims the singer is so sexy he'd go to bed with him anytime and make sweet love to him? Dumb or what? I wonder if in modern productions they substitute some current crush object of straight boys, like whom? Let me take a survey and get back to you. In the meantime some of Ragni and Rado's lyrics retain an extraordinary poignancy made only more pointed by the current war we find ourselves immersed in, without an exit plan, in Iraq; other lyrics in a more personal mode also keep their appeal, particularly the torch songs which are witty and plangent as anything by Lorenz Hart. In other words, this book is a mixed bag; you may reach in and pull out a plum, or you might lose a few fingers to shrapnel and flesh failures. It's a gamble either way.

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