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NEW YORK – This is the waving of the age of Aquarius; “Hair” has closed on Broadway.
With the 17,750th performance, “the American tribal-love rock musical” left New York after four years of peace, flowers, freedom, happiness – the victim not only of current theatrical funk that has darkened many of the city’s theaters, but also of its own encroaching middle age – and all the louder, hipper, nuder shows it inspired.
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The show began a whole g3enre of rock musicals and its score provided a succession of big hits. “Hair” songs were recorded by such non-hippies as the Cowsills and Mantovani. “Air,” sung in the first act, was a pioneering ballad about ecology.
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