Bruce's Journal

Bruce Slutsky was born in New York City in 1949. I retired six years ago after working as a Science/Engineering Librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark for 25 years. I was married to Karen until she passed away in February 2021. I have a son Lee who is now 35 years old. I am very much interested in the popular music of the 1960s, especially Bob Dylan and the Beatles. I am interested in rock and roll radio. I am an enthusiastic fan of the New York Mets.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Hair, the Musical

Today to celebrate our anniversary we saw Hair at the Al Hirschfeld Theater on Broadway. It seems that we have spent a lot of time this year reliving the events of 40 years ago. Hair originally opened at the Public Theater on Lafayette Street on October 17, 1967. It moved to the Biltmore Theater on April 29, 1968. The current revival opened this past March 31. Hair generated top 40 hits in the late 1960s including:

Hair - Cowsills
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In - Fifth Dimension
Easy to Be Hard - Three Dog Night
Good Morning Starshine - Oliver

The show included the famous nude scene. The lights on the performers were very low. On several occasions the actors went into the audience and danced. I even high fived one of the actors.