TV: 'HAIR: Let The Sun Shine In' The Documentary

HAIR-The Musical returns to Broadway for the first time in over 35 years to inspire a new generation with its cry for peace, love and change. The show is scheduled to open at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on March 5th. Hair: Let The Sun Shine In is one of the best in-depth documentaries on a Broadway musical ever created.

Since its overwhelming success on Broadway forty years ago, HAIR has inspired many generations. This definitive and entertaining documentary highlights the continuing relevance of the show and its still radical, transformative power. BWW TV sat down with the filmmakers to learn how the music and message of HAIR inspired them to create the passionate documentary.

In preparation for its fortieth anniversary, the show's author and co-creator Jim Rado rehearses a troupe of young performers for a new production whose vibrant energy brings HAIR's fantastic score to life once again. A wealth of archival footage covers US and international productions as well as conveys a portrait of an era, a generation and its politics. Original interviews and new segments feature Milos Forman, Keith Carradine, Ben Vereen, Melba Moore, author James Rado, composer Galt MacDermot, director Tom O'Horgan and others.

Pola Rapaport is an independent filmmaker and editor living in New York. Her work includes Writer of O, a docudrama about the secretive author of the erotic novel Story of O (Grand Prix Urti/ 2005; distributed by Zeitgeist Films); Family Secret, the story of the discovery of her long-lost secret Romanian brother (Grand Prix SCAM, France/ 2000); Blind Light (poetic drama/documentary, 1998) and Broken Meat (1990), portrait of the mad poet Alan Granville. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow of the NY Foundation for the Arts. Her films have been shown at festivals including Sundance, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Seattle, Warsaw, Gothenburg, and many others. They have been broadcasted widely around the world. She received a BFA degree from the Institute of Film and Television at New York University. Rapaport is a dual citizen of France and the US, and is married to cinematographer and frequent collaborator Wolfgang Held.

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