2006-12-25 14:09:36 · 11 answers · asked by hot95spencer 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
A HISTORICAL NOTE
Hair, subtitled The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical, is a musical about hippies and was a significant part of the drug, music and peace-love culture of the 1960s.
It is famous for originally being performed with all the players totally naked in some scenes, and especially for its exceptionally popular score.
It transferred to the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway on April 29, 1968 where it stayed for 1,873 performances. The West Coast version played at the Aquarius Theatre on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. A fateful Mexican production opened in 1968 for one performance. The show was shut down by the government, and the cast members were forced to leave Mexico or be arrested. It opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London on September 27, 1968, continuing for 1,998 performances until closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973. Hair also went on to stage productions across the world and continues to be performed today.
Music: Galt MacDermot
Lyrics & Book: James Rado, Gerome Ragni
Director: Tom O'Horgan
It opened off-Broadway in 1967 and hit Broadway in 1968 where I saw it that summer, It was very much a piece of celebratory group theatre fuelled by group energy. But as a comment on the world it was naive and had little to say.
The lyrics of the songs were pretty banal.
"I once met a boy called Frank Mills
Outside the Waverley
But unfortunately
I lost his address"
(the Waverley was a rock venue)
"The air
The air is everywhere"
The song about which you are enquiring went:
"When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Let the sun shine,
Let the sun shine in,
The sun shine in."
I became rapidly disillusioned with Hair, The scene at the end ewhere the audience is invited to go on stage and join in, probably worked off-Broadway with a like-minded aufience but in the limelight of a Broadway Theatre, it just became a trendy thing to do, Zsa Zsa Gabor soon joined in as did other B-list celebrities. It all seemed to have very little to do with the purported values of the show,
For me the final straw came in 1969 when the Israeli Army about to go and fight in the 6-day war had a special guest performance arranged for them to put them in the right frame of mind for combat! And this was supposed to be an anti-war show!
If the show was so easily recuperated and bent to suit purposes to which it it was opposed, it hardly qualified as the Voice of A Generation and I think the correct way to see the show is essentially voyeuristic: middle-class America consuming safe depoliticised images of youth revolt which would not threaten its values unduly.
Nothing subversive will happen: the show's values are so imbued with New Age mysticism that productions will come and go, with little or no social impact. and just be viewed as a time-warped curiosity.
It is simply unclear when the relevant conjunction of Mars and Jupiter is or was, so don't expect anything Aquarian to happen because of it. Nobody will notice it or care if it does!
2006-12-25 15:51:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Hippies will act silly.
Nothing of any consequence will happen. That alignment happened some time in the not too distant past; sometime between the release of that song and the present. Nothing happened.
2006-12-25 22:14:57 · answer #2 · answered by PoppaJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing. life will go on. Astrology is bogus.
But what I think you're referring to, kiddo, is from the old song "Age of Aquarius". If I'm not mistaken, those are lines from the first stanza, followed by "this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius". They won't admit it, but probably your parents, or maybe even your grandparents if you're under 16, smoked dope to that song. You're too young to know. :)
2006-12-25 22:20:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dawning of the Age of Aquarius
2006-12-25 22:15:11 · answer #4 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beginning of the Age of Aquarius. Didn't you see the musical Hair?
2006-12-25 22:12:59 · answer #5 · answered by Philo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Excellent ...Peace Man...ha....ha....ha.../falls off chair/
The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius......Hair .....oh yeah...dig it Man...far out solid and right on......
I was born in this era of Peace Harmony and Make Love not War.......
Peace Bells, crash hats, light shows and Hari Chrishna to all you groovy freaks...Peace and Loves up Man.....
Ha ...ha...ha.......
Brilliant dude......ho man just what this world needs...some honest humour......
Oh boy......./still giggling /....laughter the best medicine....wooo hooo.....
Peace from a Buddhist......
2006-12-26 04:24:56 · answer #6 · answered by Gaz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Peace will guide the planets and love will rule the stars".
At least, without digging out my old "Hair" album - if I've still got it - that's what's meant to happen.
2006-12-25 22:12:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
all hell will break loose.
seriously, what kind of question is that for the ASTRONOMY forum. You need to go to astrology and other nonsense (is there a section for that?)
2006-12-25 22:11:59 · answer #8 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will be the dawning of the age of Aquarius
2006-12-25 22:54:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Dairy Queens will close.
2006-12-25 23:27:19 · answer #10 · answered by ridge50 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋