What's longer: a hippie's hair, or this episode? We uncover a HAIR-spiracy, debate the appropriate holidays to eat turkey, and speculate on which Tony presenters were definitely doin' it backstage. Email us at mylittletonyspodcast@gmail.com, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@mylittletonys) for additional content about this season’s shows!
What's longer: a hippie's hair, or this episode? We uncover a HAIR-spiracy, debate the appropriate holidays to eat turkey, and speculate on which Tony presenters were definitely doin' it backstage.
Email us at mylittletonyspodcast@gmail.com, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@mylittletonys) for additional content about this season’s shows!
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“Hairstory.” Hair the Musical by Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and Music by Galt MacDermot, 14 Feb. 2009.
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Barnes, Clive. “Theater: 'Hair' -- It's Fresh and Frank; Likable Rock Musical Moves to Broadway.” The New York Times, 30 Apr. 1968.
Lewis, Anthony. “LONDONERS COOL TO 'HAIR'S' NUDITY; Four-Letter Words Shock Few at Musical's Debut.” The New York Times, 29 Sept. 1968.
Wilson, John S. “Fresh New Winds Blow Through 'Hair'; ' Hair's' New Winds.” The New York Times, 7 July 1968.
Thompson, Howard. “250 Test Skills at 'Hair' Auditions.” The New York Times, 3 Nov. 1969.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: 'Hair' -- It's Fresh and Frank; Likable Rock Musical Moves to Broadway.” The New York Times, 30 Apr. 1968.
Weiler, A. H. “Butler Parts His 'Hair'; Butler Parts His 'Hair'.” The New York Times, 6 Oct. 1968.
“'Hair' Reaches Australia.” The New York Times, 7 June 1969.
Barnes, Clive. “The Theater: 'Hair,' a Love-Rock Musical, Inaugurates Shakespeare Festival's Anspacher Playhouse; Contemporary Youth Depicted in Play Structure Is the First Saved as Landmark.” The New York Times, 30 Oct. 1967.
“HAIR' WINS DELAY ON EMMY NOMINEES.” The New York Times, 20 Mar. 1968.
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Lewis, Anthony. “HAIR' TO ESCAPE SHEARS IN BRITAIN; Power of the Censor to End Before London Opening.” The New York Times, 31 July 1968.
“Hair' Authors Take Leave.” The New York Times, 4 July 1968.
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“' Hair' to Update Display For Window Shoppers.” The New York Times, 15 July 1969.
Berkvist, Robert. “He Put 'Hair' on Broadway's Chest; He Put 'Hair' On Broadway 's Chest.” The New York Times, 11 May 1969.
“Princess Anne Dances On Stage During 'Hair'” The New York Times, 16 Apr. 1969.
“'Hair,' Without Nude Scene, Will Appear on Channel 13.” The New York Times, 20 Aug. 1968.
“Authors of 'Hair' Protest Their Removal From Cast.” The New York Times, 13 Apr. 1969.
“ROCK' N' ROLL MUSICAL MOVING TO CHEETAH.” The New York Times, 6 Dec. 1967.
Berkvist, Robert. “Changes Color of 'Hair'.” The New York Times, 14 Sept. 1969.
Kloman, William. “'2001' And 'Hair' -- Are They The Groove of the Future?” The New York Times, 12 May 1968.
Shepard, Richard F. “Actor-Authors of 'Hair' Barred From Theater.” The New York Times, 12 Apr. 1969.
Wilson, John S. “Rock Goes the Musical Theater.” The New York Times, 19 Nov. 1967.
Bender, Marylin. “Topless, And No Bottoms, Either; ' Hair' -- Topless, and No Bottoms, Either.” The New York Times, 28 Apr. 1968.
Barnes, Clive. “Hair' Holds Up Under 2d Look.” The New York Times, 5 Feb. 1969.
Zolotow, Sam. “Two Stars of 'Hair' Are Back in Show As Feud Is Ended.” The New York Times, 18 Apr. 1969.
“Mexico Imposes Curb On Nude Scene in 'Hair'.” The New York Times, 4 Jan. 1969.
Cook, Joan. “In the 60's, Hair Was a Fighting Word.” The New York Times, 31 Dec. 1969.
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“Mexico Shuts 'Hair' And Expels Its Cast After One Showing.” The New York Times, 6 Jan. 1969.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Can 'Hair' Be Taught To Hate?” The New York Times, 27 Sept. 1970.
“15,000 Mark 'Hair's' 4th Birthday.” The New York Times, 8 May 1972.
“ASTRONAUTS FIND 'HAIR' OFFENSIVE.” The New York Times, 6 June 1970.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: The Sound Off Broadway; Musicals Help 'Invalid' Survive Comfortably And There Is Promise in Drama Ventures.” The New York Times, 2 Mar. 1968.
“Supreme Court Clears 'Hair' for Boston Run.” The New York Times, 23 May 1970.
“Little Rock Group Barred In Attempt to Block 'Hair'.” The New York Times, 13 Aug. 1971.
“Theater: Whither the Stage Musical?; Shows Fail to Work in Contemporary Idiom Old-Fashioned Variety Look Backward.” The New York Times, 22 Dec. 1967.
Kerr, Walter. “It Let's Down Its 'Hair' Pedigree.” The New York Times, 22 Oct. 1972.
Cook, Joan. “A Piano Prodigy at 3, Now the Conductor of 'Hair'.” The New York Times, 5 Nov. 1970.
Klemesrud, Judy. “Shelley Plimpton: From 'Hair' to Maternity.” The New York Times, 13 Sept. 1970.
“Lamont Washington Dies at 24; Actor Had Played Hud In ‘Hair'.” The New York Times, 26 Aug. 1968.
Brantley, Ben. “A Frizzy, Fizzy Welcome to the Untamed '60s.” The New York Times, 31 Mar. 2009.
Brantley, Ben. “Let the Sunshine In, and the Shadows.” The New York Times, 8 Aug. 2008.
Kennedy, Louise. Hair, The Boston Globe, 1 Apr. 2009.
Brantley, Ben. “When Love Was In and Youthful Confidence High.” The New York Times, 5 May 2001.
Vineberg, Steve. “A Revival Of 'Hair,' A Graying Pit Band.” The New York Times, 29 Apr. 2001.
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Reed, Rex. “Bacharach -- No More 'Promises'; Burt Bacharach: No More 'Promises'.” The New York Times, 15 Dec. 1968.
Wilson, John S. “The New Sound Of 'Promises'.” The New York Times, 16 Feb. 1969.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: Simon-Bacharach 'Promises, Promises' Begins Run at the Shubert; Jerry Orbach Starred as Mouse-Fink Hero.” The New York Times, 2 Dec. 1968.
Klein, Alvin. “'Promises, Promises' In Goodspeed Revival.” The New York Times, 7 Nov. 1993.
Shepard, Richard F. “Anatomy of an Opening Night: 'Promises, Promises'; Agony and Ecstasy of All Involved Is Dissected.” The New York Times, 3 Dec. 1968.
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Cook, Joan. “'Lyricist Readies His 'Brainchild'.” The New York Times, 17 Mar. 1974.
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Dale, Michael. “BWW Review: Tyne Daly Brings Jerry Herman's DEAR WORLD To The York Theatre.” BroadwayWorld.com, 28 Feb. 2017.
“Dear World' Postponed.” The New York Times, 20 Dec. 1968.
Zolotow, Sam. “Peter Glenville Taking Over Angela Lansbury's 'Dear World'.” The New York Times, 24 Oct. 1968.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: 'The Madwoman of Chaillot' Set to Music; 'Dear World' Arrives at Mark Hellinger Angela Lansbury and Godreau Excel.” The New York Times, 7 Feb. 1969.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: 'The Madwoman of Chaillot' Set to Music; 'Dear World' Arrives at Mark Hellinger Angela Lansbury and Godreau Excel (Published 1969).” The New York Times, 7 Feb. 1969.
Zolotow, Sam. “RISING SHOW COSTS ARE ANTICIPATED; So Sponsor Lifts Top Prices on Next Season's Tickets.” The New York Times, 29 Feb. 1968.
Wolf, Matt. “Oddity in the Key of Whimsy.” The New York Times, 19 Feb. 2013.
Kerr, Walter. “When Angela Sings 'I Will Not Have It'; When Angela Sings 'I Will Not Have It'. The New York Times, 16 Feb. 1969.
“What's Opened in the Theater.”The New York Times.
“Canterbury Tales' to Open.” The New York Times, 12 Oct. 1968.
“3 Sign for 'Canterbury Tales'.” The New York Times, 6 Nov. 1968.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: A Musical 'Canterbury Tales'; Chaucer Poetry Hasn't Crossed Ocean Well.” The New York Times, 4 Feb. 1969.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: 'Canterbury Tales' in Version That Sings; Noted Yugoslav Directs Musical in London Chaucer Work Adapted by Ex-Oxford Don.” The New York Times, 7 Sept. 1968.
Barnes, Clive. “Stage: Updated Chaucer; A 'Canterbury' Musical Opens Off Broadway.” The New York Times, 26 Jan. 1969.
Corry, John. “Stage: Chaucer Tales Open the New Rialto; Ribald Romp.” The New York Times, 13 Feb. 1980.
“Chaucer's Broadway Trip.” The New York Times, 27 Jan. 1969.
West, Ben. “Musical of the Month: The Fig Leaves Are Falling.” The New York Public Library, 17 Apr. 2013.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: 'The Fig Leaves Are Falling'; Sherman-Hague Show Is at the Broadhurst.” The New York Times, 3 Jan. 1969.
Gold, Daniel. “By the Fadduh of '60s Parodies.” The New York Times, 16 Jan. 2013.
Barnes, Clive. “The Theater: A Musical of the Draft Riots of 1863; Maggie Flynn' Opens at the ANTA Shirley Jones Starred With Jack Cassidy.” The New York Times, 24 Oct. 1968.
Zolotow, Sam. “MUSICAL TO STAR SHIRLEY JONES; ' Maggie Flynn' to Bring Her Back to Broadway Oct. 22.” The New York Times, 30 May 1968.
Klemesrud, Judy. “30 Minutes From Broadway -- 2 Stars Live in a 'Haunted' Castle.” The New York Times, 27 Dec. 1968.
Kerr, Walter. “The Winner . . .; 'The Great White Hope'.” The New York Times, 13 Oct. 1968.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: 'White Hope,' Tale of Modern Othello, Opens in Capital; Howard Sackler's Play Given at Arena Stage.” The New York Times, 14 Dec. 1967.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: Howard Sackler's 'Great White Hope'; Play at the Alvin Stars James Earl Jones Edwin Sherin Staged Cheated Hero's Story.” The New York Times, 4 Oct. 1968.
Sullivan, Dan. “The Theater: Art Carney and 'Lovers'; Plays by Brian Friel Open at Beaumont.” The New York Times, 26 July 1968.
Barnes, Clive. “Theater: 'Hadrian VII,' English Pope; Alec McCowen Stars in Classic Fantasy.” The New York Times, 9 Jan. 1969.
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