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HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

Presented by Crimson Creek Players at Empire Arts Center

August 4-August 15, 2009

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Just in time to usher in the dawning of a new age in America, Crimson Creek invokes this classic rock musical and explodes it on to a new generation.

A celebration of life, a love letter to freedom, and a passionate cry for hope and change, HAIR features some of the greatest songs ever written for the stage. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-war peace movement. Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired "Hippies of the Age of Aquarius" fighting against conscription to the Vietnam War and living a bohemian life together in New York City. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and all their friends struggle to balance their young lives, loves and the sexual revolution with their pacifist rebellion against the war and the conservative impulses of their parents and society. Ultimately Claude must decide whether or not to resist the draft, as his friends have done.

Join this all star cast in the show everyone is talking about! HAIR - on stage in Grand Forks, ND at the Empire Arts Center, August 4-8, 11-15 at 7:30pm. Tickets available (after July 15) at 701-777-4090.

HAIR is recommended for a mature audience.

Songs from Hair have been recorded by numerous artists,iincluding Shirley Bassey, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross and Liza Minnelli.

The 5th Dimension released a medley of the two songs "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" in 1969, the year after the show opened on Broadway, which won Record of the Year and topped the charts for six weeks. Some other songs from the show became top 10 hits that year. The Cowsills's recording of the title song "Hair" climbed to #2 on the Billboard charts, "Good Morning Starshine" as sung by Oliver reached #3, and Three Dog Night's version of "Easy to Be Hard" went to #4. Another notable version of a song from Hair at the time was Nina Simone's medley "Ain't Got No — I Got Life" on her 1968 album 'Nuff Said!, which reached the top 5 on the British charts. "Good Morning Starshine" was sung on a Sesame Street episode in 1969 by cast member Bob McGrath. In 1970, "Aquarius" was played more frequently on U.S. radio and television than any other song that year.

Cast Includes: 

Berger (Doug Chavis)
Woof (Gabe Gomez)
Hud (O'Dale Brown)
Claude (Jared Kinney)
Jeanie (Debra Berger)
Dionne (Kim Watts)
Crissy (Teran Ferguson)
Sheila (Jesi Mullins)
Margaret Mead (Tyler Rood)
Natalie (Beth Laidlaw)
Linda (Sam Brewer)
Suzannah (Michelle McCauley)
Marjorie (Victoria Bertness)
Leata (Molly Kinney)
Emmaretta (Sarah Hysjulien)
Walter (Matt Hippen)
Steve (Daniel Dutot)
Hiram (Ken Granle)
Hubert (Ken McGuran)
Paul (Chandler Cline)

Directed by Chris Berg (Great American Trailer Park Musical, Lucky Stiff), Musical Direction by Matt Strand (Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, Chicago), and Choreography by Laura Dvorak-Berry.  Produced by Benjamin Klipfel.