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Hair Live! is NBC's Next Live Musical Broadcast

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Hair Live! is NBC's Next Live Musical Broadcast

Hair Live! is NBC’s next live musical broadcast

Following on the heels of NBC’s critically acclaimed rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” comes the true original rock musical, Hair Live!, which will be broadcast in the spring of 2019 in front of a live audience.

Hair Live! tells the story of a group of politically active hippies living a bohemian life in New York while fighting against and resisting the Vietnam War. Claude, his good friends Berger and Sheila, and their “tribe” are coming of age in the world of the sexual revolution while struggling with their rebellion against the war and their conservative parents and society. Claude must decide whether to resist the draft as his friends have done, or succumb to the pressures of conservative America to serve in Vietnam, compromising his principles and beliefs.

Fifty years ago Hair burst onto Broadway in the midst of the anti-Vietnam War movement and was groundbreaking in many ways. Since then, its integrated cast, message of protest and peace, and certified-platinum “rock” score have become iconic. With music by Galt MacDermot and book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, Hair has a string of hits that have been played all over the globe, including “(The Age of) Aquarius,” “Let the Sun Shine In,” Good Morning Starshine,” (all #1 hits in 1969), “Hair,” “Manchester, England,” “Frank Mills” and more.

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who have executive produced each of NBC’s live musicals since The Sound of Music revived this innovative programming genre, will executive produce the telecast.

“When we both, individually, saw ‘Hair’ on Broadway, we were knocked out by how musical theater could be stretched into something so daring, immersive and audacious,” said Zadan and Meron. “Its recent Broadway revival showed how timeless the show is and that it’s relevant to any era. ‘Hair’ is filled with heartfelt emotion, joy and thrilling music and it really will be the new dawning of the Age of Aquarius.”

Hair Live! will be produced by Universal Television, MGM Television, and Zadan/Meron Productions.



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