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HAIR Directed by Milos Forman; Screenplay by Michael Weller...
...project looked doomed, it was this one. Hair's source, the 1968 Broadway hit, was a largely plotless, if tuneful, show that homogenized the '60s for theater audiences; even at the time, it was dated. The movie's creators -Czech-born Director Milos Forman, Playwright Michael Weller, Choreographer Twyla Tharp-have never previously negotiated the perilous tides of movie musicals. Add a largely unproven cast and a grand budget, and you can see just how hairy an undertaking this movie was. One false move, and Hair would have congealed into Grease...
...Thad McNulty (H) 2:27.31; 2. Dan Challener (P) 2:27.36; 3. Dave Weller (Penn) 2:27.72; 4. Mike Becker (P) 2:28.34; 5. John Haugen...
...affinity with childhood - irrepressible, irresponsible, zany, sulky -brings out the best and the worst in Play wright Weller. His previous drama, Moonchildren, was a balloon flight through the gravityless '60s. In Loose Ends, now at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, the characters are grounded in the '70s and undergo growing pains without discernibly growing...
LOOSE ENDS by Michael Weller...