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I forget which one has the fantastic 70s gratuitous nudity, that? Or Hair?
 

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Broadway shows are always going to be pretty sanitized, considering their audience. I would bet that you'd see a lot more rawness/edginess in off-Broadway productions.
 

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"Matthew Snyder, the boys’ father, told cops he kept two loaded 9mm handguns in an unlocked console of a couch in the living room where his sons were playing early Wednesday, PennLive.com reports."
My parents have guns all over the house loaded and ready to go.
 

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My parents have guns all over the house loaded and ready to go.


Apparently, they also might not have 13 and 9 year olds running around the casa.
 

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I forget which one has the fantastic 70s gratuitous nudity, that? Or Hair?
That's Hair, as I recall. The show's only redeeming feature, though the nudity has that 70s gratuitous, well, hair.
 

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Yeah, but he is more than that. Rap battles and hip hop improv isnt exactly your normal run through musical theater.
I guess you can argue that uniqueness is a virtue, but the point I'm making (and the composer in the 2nd linked article) is that it sounds inauthentic. There's something missing.

Hair is a good musical! Milos Forman, Twyla Tharp,

dancing ponies!


The article I linked talked about the original Hair being legit, but the 2009 revival being sanitized. But he's not talking about "sanitization" in terms of content. He's talking about production and style. It takes the soul out of the music. He also compares the original Jesus Christ Superstar concept album (recorded by actual rock musicians) to the actual productions (which struggled). It's kind of like Christian rock. It sounds inauthentic.

There's probably some analogy to clothing, like how some people in classic menswear look like they're cosplaying while others look perfectly natural, and it's not easy for the untrained eye to pinpoint why.
 

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I remember seeing the Hair movie in the theaters. I would have been about 9 or 10 years old. I remember not getting most of it and then being traumatized at the end when the guy got shipped off to Vietnam.
 

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Oh so you fruitcakes are talking about favorite musicals now?

(Ain’t no one touching Miss Saigon. Fight me.)
 

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