Hair
The Pumphouse Takapuna
November 5th – November 19th 2016
North Shore Music Theatre is proud to announce our second show for 2016, Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
After an off-Broadway debut in October 1967 the show opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances. Since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world, spawning dozens of recordings of the musical, including the 3 million-selling original Broadway cast recording.
A Broadway revival opened on March 31, 2009, earning strong reviews and winning the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for best revival of a musical.
Synopsis
Hair tells the story of the “tribe”, a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the “Age of Aquarius” living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their friends struggle to balance their young lives, loves, and the sexual revolution with their rebellion against the war and their conservative parents and society. Ultimately, Claude must decide whether to resist the draft as his friends have done, or to succumb to the pressures of his parents (and conservative America) to serve in Vietnam, compromising his pacifistic principles and risking his life.
The spectacular cast for our 2016 production of Hair is…
BERGER Kit Haines
CLAUDE George Everts
WOOF George Keenan
HUD Tim Solomon
SHEILA SJ Phillips
JEANNIE Donna Botha
DIONNE Hui Jiang
RON Sean macfarlane
CRISSY Megan O’Reilly
WALTER Oliver Mitchell
STEVE Bryce kehoe
LEATA Rose Haumate
SUZANNAH Amanda Rolls
MARY Zara Morrison
DIANE Hiliary Schroader
LINDA Gabrielle Wilson
NATALIE Olivia Harty
PAUL Cameron Stables
HIRAM Colin Mak
EMMARETTA Emily Clauson
MARJORIE Holly Lutton
SANDRA Emily Ford
Congratulations to the cast, we can’t wait for rehearsals to begin!