New York, NY @ Skirball Center – Oct 18th-21st, 2006
Theater Mitu presents a radical adaptation of the American Musical HAIR (by Rado, Ragni and MacDermot) in collaboration with New York’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and NYU/Tisch. Re-orchestrated by Todd Almond, this production breathes new relevance to the iconic piece about identity and what it means to be revolutionary. This re-imagining manifests forty head-shaved characters with an idealistic dream of what life should be. Surrounded by an all white landscape and filled with electronica and computerized music, they in turn ask us to actively step out and dream and, furthermore, to make that dream real before time runs out.
BOOK AND LYRICS BY: Gerome Ragni & James RadoMUSIC BY: Galt MacDermotSTAGE MANAGER: Hilary AustinMUSIC DIRECTION: Todd AlmondCHOREOGRAPHY: Scott SpahrSET DESIGN: Zach ZirlinCOSTUME DESIGN: Andrea LauerLIGHTING DESIGN: Zack TinkelmanSOUND DESIGN: Alex Hawthorn, Travis SawyerASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS: Olivia Castillon, Nicole Calcado, Bridget WaterhouseDRAMATURGY: Chris MillsASST. DIRECTOR: Dan WaldronASST. CHOREOGRAPHER: Ben KimitchASST. MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Jordan Woods-RobinsonASST. DRAMATURG: Sanaz GhajarrahimiASST. SCENIC DESIGN: Carla Cruz, Eli Kaplan WildmannASST. COSTUME DESIGN: Sarah Abdella, Sarah HoitASST. LIGHTING DESIGN: Thomas Bergeron, Shawn DuanASST. SOUND DESIGN: Lisa Bierman, Adrian Price-Whelan
Adam Cochran, Emily Davis, Elinor Famutimi, Max Jenkins, Leigh Jones, Theo Stockman, Jaclyn Backhaus, Alex Brightman, Whitney Brown, Chad Carstarphen, Paul Downs Colaizzo, Martin Glyer, Chasten Harmon, Ben Hobbs, Lee Kasper, Kristina R. King, Joanna Lampert, Kristine Lee, Stephen Lukas, Corey Michener, Maria Mocerino, Justin Nestor, Emily Pike, Sam Pinkleton, Elizabeth Sharts, Meghan Starr, Juan Torres-Falcon, Alyse Wojciechowski
Orchestra: Todd Almond, Ethan Hein, Chris Anderson, Tricia Scotti, Chris Luard, Michael Horrigan, Jordan Woods-Robinson
