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Fact #180029

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Short story:

The first Canadian production of the hippy musical Hair opens at The Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, where it will run for 53 weeks.

Full article:

Clive Barnes (reviewer, New York Times) : Toronto has one of the best Hair productions I have seen. Interestingly, it is the very first to be staged by the authors Jerome Ragni and James Rado, and they have given it a certain new zest. Obviously they have based the work on Tom O'Horgan's great New York original, but they have felt free to change here and there, to bring their own free-fall spontaneity to the piece, and to play around generally.