NBC announced today that they are doing one of my favorite three musicals for the next live production in the spring and I just want to know how they are going to do Hair. Not because of the production, but because of the words in the songs. I have been blasting the soundtrack in my car since I was a teenager and even I know what songs I could not have the windows down on. Some tunes they can skip, but others they will have to change a word or two and those are the words I scream the loudest. Plus, no nude scene…😢.
When Neil Moron was asking for which musical he should do next, I quickly suggested Hair because sadly it is relevant again under this administration. I am glad, I influenced them. Of course, I know I didn’t but I like I did.
On that note, who would I cast? I think Nick Jonas as George Berger because he has that gritty look about him. When it comes to Claude, I think Teen Beach’s Garrett Clayton would be perfect as the innocent man about to go into the army who gets a quick lesson about life, mother, in NYC.
I also hope that NBC will find a way to incorporate some of the people who were involved in the original productions like Treat Williams, Annie Golden, Meat Loaf and Diane Keaton into it. I have been into Treat ever since the first time I saw Hair as a little kid. Yes, my parents let me watch it as a kid and I have been obsessed with it since!
Hopefully, a new generation will love it as much as I do because there is so much to love about it!
