The cast and crew of Hair clearly knows who makes up a huge portion of their audience. Or maybe they're just good people. Or both. Read the full post.
Jul 15
2009
03:30 PM ET
'Hair' goes dark for gay marriage: What's stopping the rest of the Great White Way?
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Wow, way to diminish a message. This isn’t about Hair “knowing its audience” and “endearing gays to the show” – are you friggin’ serious? It’s about much more than that. First, Hair is a show not just about celebrating love, it’s about a generation standing up for what is right. This isn’t a case of “the gays love Hair, so Hair loves the gays!” This is about a company taking a stand and acknowledging that gays account for an extraordinary percentage of people in the business (not in the audience) and those people deserve the same human rights as everyone else. When you look at it that way, canceling the show and marching for rights in the ONLY answer, and more shows ought to follow suit.
YES!!! All Broadway shows should join Gavin Creel and the cast and crew of HAIR! How amazing and inspiring would that be to an already very worthy cause? Not only because many gays are huge theater lovers and supporters, but because it is the right thing to do and having all of Broadway go on notice would be another way to really get the attention of the whole country on this historic day. I know as a straight woman I plan to be there with the amazingly talented Gavin Creel and HAIR, as well as some of my own friends, gay and straight, fighting for what’s right. All of Broadway should too! Great suggestion!! Equality for everyone!!!
YES!!! All Broadway shows should join Gavin Creel and the cast and crew of HAIR! How amazing and inspiring would that be to an already very worthy cause? Not only because many gays are huge theater lovers and supporters, but because it is the right thing to do and having all of Broadway go on notice would be another way to really get the attention of the whole country on this historic day. I know as a straight woman I plan to be there with the amazingly talented Gavin Creel and HAIR, as well as some of my own friends, gay and straight, fighting for what’s right. All of Broadway should too! Great suggestion!! Equality for everyone!!!
Awesome! Way to go, guys! I hope the cast of every Broadway show has the stones to make a stand as well.
Cool.
And to the marriage foes, and sexually phobic, please find something else to do with your time, because life’s too short. Find love.
Joe Mustich, Justice of the Peace,
Washington, Connecticut USA
I’m busy this summer officiating for many couples who are coming to CT from around the country to wed.
Congrats to all.
My daughter was in a production of “Hair” in San Jose in 2007. After meeting the cast, I asked her how many of her castmates were totally straight. “One” was her reply.