Patricia Zohn on "Hair"

"I used to say that lines were drawn for reasons of sanity and crossing over too many of them was dangerous to our health. Hair shows that our bravado carried us through some very scary times. The costumes look entirely contemporary as sixties fashion has been back in more times than I can count. But the libretto ranges much wider and deeper, trying to get at some universal truths, even if they are from the point of view of some angsty adolescents. Everybody should see Hair. Parents should take their kids even if it brings up the whole Did-you-do-drugs-mommy conversation that I ducked for years. … Twentysomethings should go on their own to see a little bit more of the 'the sixties were so great' mantra their parents have been so relentlessly invoking. A child from generation Y happened to show up on my doorstep the night before at 1:00 AM. He took one look at the album (yes, album) restored to prominence over the fireplace and gave me one of those, not-this-sixties-thing-again-looks. But he who is going to follow Phish around on their reunion tour for vacation this summer would do well to head over to Hair to see where their kind of thing began" ("Culture Zohn," Huffington Post, 4/2/09).