Book and Lyrics by
Gerome Ragni & James Rado
Music by Galt MacDermot
June 3-26, 2027

HAIR, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

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Raves for New Line's HAIR (2008)

“This production delivers the hippie world with sensual precision.” – Judith Newmark, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Unexpectedly, beautifully, joyfully, mournfully, tragically relevant again.” – Andrea Braun, PlaybackSTL

“When the Osage Tribe gathered on stage to sing ‘Let The Sun Shine In,’ it felt an awful lot like the Holy Ghost, or someone like him, was in the house.” – Stefene Russell, St. Louis Magazine

Raves for New Line's HAIR (2001)

“Almost unbearably emotional.” – Allison Xantha Miller, American Theatre Magazine

“One of the best productions New Line ever staged.” – Judith Newmark, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“New Line Theatre shows off its crowning glory.” – Byron Kerman, The Riverfront Times

“An ensemble cast of frenzied and frolicking psychedelic-perfection.” – Colin Murphy, The Vital Voice

Raves for New Line's HAIR (2000)

“A gripping production from New Line Theatre.” – Judith Newmark, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A strong, musical cast make the book, music and lyrics seem as fresh and fun as they were in 1968.” – Harry Weber, The Riverfront Times

“The New Line production revels in the shaggy spirit.” – Brian McCary, KDHX-FM

Let the sun shine in.

New Line Theatre closes its 35th season with the mind-melting, soul-expanding, kaleidoscope-splashed "American tribal love-rock musical," a show that didn’t just change theatre -- it rewired it.

With book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, and music by Galt MacDermot, HAIR first burst onto the scene at Joe Papp’s Public Theatre before evolving into its final Broadway form under the cosmic guidance of the visionary Tom O’Horgan. Somewhere between downtown experiment and full-blown cultural detonation, a new kind of musical was born. And nothing was ever the same again.

Pulled from the swirling ether of the Sixties anti-war movement, hippie counterculture, experimental theatre, psychedelic exploration, rock and roll, and the poetic frequency of Allen Ginsberg, HAIR didn’t just reflect 1967 -- it was 1967. Loud. Messy. Beautiful. Defiant. A little high. Probably very high.

It’s a show that doesn’t politely ask for your attention -- it grabs you, shakes you, hugs you, sings to you, and occasionally dares you to rethink everything. Decades later, it still hits like a flash of color in a black-and-white world, still capable of surprising you, shocking you, and opening up something you didn’t realize was closed.

The New Liners are proud to bring HAIR back to St. Louis for its 60th anniversary. Some shows age gracefully, but some shows just keep expanding. In 2000, New Line produced HAIR for the first time, in the Washington University blackbox theatre. Audiences and the New Line cast -- now, "the Osage Tribe" -- were so deeply affected by the show, that we brought it back for another run in 2001 at the ArtLoft Theatre. In 2008, we needed HAIR again, so we brought it back once more, at the Washington University South Campus Theatre. This is the first time New Line has produced any show for the fourth time. Which either means we can’t let it go -- or it won’t let us go.

Either way, the tribe is gathering again.
The music is starting.
The colors are getting brighter.

And somewhere, just at the edge of it all… the sun is waiting.

New Line's production will be directed by Scott Miller and Chris Moore, with sound design by Ryan Day, scenic design by Dr. Rob Lippert, and lighting design by Eric Wennlund.

Ticket Info

HAIR runs June 3-26, 2027, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, all at 8:00 p.m., at the Marcelle Theater, 3310 Samuel Shepard Drive, three blocks east of Grand, in the Grand Center Arts District. June 3 is a preview.

To purchase season tickets click here. Single Tickets will go on sale in August. Tickets are $35 for adults, $30 for seniors, and $25 for students. For the June 3 preview performance, tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for seniors, and $20 for students. To charge single tickets by phone, call MetroTix at 314-534-1111 or visit the Fox Theatre box office or the MetroTix website.

PREVIEW NIGHT: Thursday, June 3, all tickets $5 off the regular price

OPENING NIGHT AFTER-PARTY: Friday, June 4, our audience is invited to stay after the performance to meet the cast and staff

BOHEMIAN NIGHT: Thursday, June 10, all tickets $20, for all the starving artsies out there

POST-SHOW TALK-BACK: Saturday, June 19, Q&A with the cast and staff, after the performance

COLLEGE FREE SEATS: Ten free seats set aside for every performance, open to any college student with a valid student ID.

HIGH SCHOOL DISCOUNT: Any high school student with a valid school ID can get a $10 ticket for any performance, with the code word, posted only on New Line's Facebook page.

EDUCATORS & MILITARY DISCOUNT: New Line offers all currently employed educators and active duty military personnel half price tickets on any Thursday night, with work ID or other proof of employment.

All discounts not valid in connection with other offers, available only at the door, and subject to availability. All programs subject to change.

Want to explore more?
  We recommend:

The double-CD set of the original 1967 off Broadway cast album and the original 1968 Broadway cast album

The 1979 film version of Hair (which the show's writers hated), and its soundtrack

Some great books about the show:
   ● Let the Sun Shine In: the Genius of HAIR by Scott Miller
   ● Letting Down My Hair: Two Years with the Love Rock Tribe – From Dawning to Downing of Aquarius by original Broadway cast member Lorrie Davis
   ●  The Age of Hair by Barbara Lee Horn
   ● Hair: The Story of the Show that Defined a Generation by Eric Grode
   ● Good Hair Days: A Personal Journey With The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical Hair by Jonathan Johnson

A terrific article in the November 2001 American Theatre magazine about New Line's HAIR

A page from Rave magazine, May 1966 -- the source for the song "Frank Mills" in Hair (under "Boys and Girls, Lost and Found")

Allen Ginsberg's poem Wichita Vortex Sutra, the source for the song "3-5-0-0" in Hair

Find out if you would have been drafted during the Vietnam war