Media Release:February 20, 2006
Contact: Brian Gaston
401-863-2730 | Brian_Gaston@brown.edu | www.brown.edu/tickets

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Various Cast Members; Photographer: Brian Gaston

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Brown Theatre and Sock & Buskin present

HAIR

The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado
Music by Galt MacDermot
Directed by Christopher Bayes

March 9-12 & 16-19, 2006
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm
Stuart Theatre
Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts,
77 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02909.

Regular Admission: $15
Senior Citizens & Brown Employees: $10
Students: $5
TICKETS and further information: 401-863-2838

Or visit www.brown.edu/tickets

See the show that brought the revolution to Broadway. HAIR, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical comes again to set the stage on fire as it did in the late 1960’s. Experience how rock and roll music, modern dance and a contemporary message first brought a new voice to the houses of the American musical theatre and the love revolution. Bridging generations and viewpoints, HAIR has a volatile impact. That which seems to be pandemonium evolves into organized chaos. With phenomenal musical numbers like Aquarius, Good Morning Starshine, I Believe in Love, I Got Life, What a Piece of Work Is Man and Hippie Life, HAIR represents the voice of a generation and the ideals that will continue to shape our nation for decades to come. This show has vitality, timelessness and meaning that embody not only the dreams of a generation but truly the dawning of a new age.

While it does engage adult situations and the use of adult language, in this production of HAIR there will be no nudity on stage.

The Director's bio:

Christopher Bayes began his theater career with the internationally acclaimed and Tony Award winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune where he worked for five years as an actor, director, composer, designer and artistic associate. In 1989 he joined the acting company of the Guthrie Theater where he appeared in over twenty productions including “Caliban” in The Tempest, “Edgar” in King Lear, “The Herald” in Marat/Sade and “Harlequin” in Triumph of Love. In 1993, commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, he produced his one-man show This Ridiculous Dreaming based on Heinrich Boll’s novel The Clown.

In New York, he has directed Red Noses by Peter Barnes, Four by Feydeau, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac,The Bourgeois Gentleman , The Moliere One Acts by Moliere, The Love of Three Oranges by Carlo Gozzi at The Juilliard Drama School. The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere The New Place by Carlo Goldoni We Won’t Pay... by Dario Fo, Ruzzante by Angelo Beolco and his new adaptation of Moliere’s TheReluctant Doctor of Love for New York University’s Graduate Acting Program, The Raven by Carlo Gozzi at NYU”s Experimental Theater Wing, Ubu Roi at both NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing and Fordham University, Timeslips at HERE as well as several original works: Wreckage at P.S. 122, The Fiasco Bro. Circus, and The Big Day (a clown show) at The Juilliard School, The Fools/Los Locos Del Pueblo at Touchstone Theater, Zibaldonè at Here and The Present Company Theatorium and Necromance, A Night of Conjuration at Dixon Place.

Regionally, he recently directed Samuel Beckett’s Endgame at Court Theater in Chicagto. Last year he directed The Moliere Impromptu at Trinity Repertory Theater. He has directed The Comedy of Errors at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Scapin at The Intiman Theater in Seattle, Court Theater in Chicago and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Len Jenkin’s new adaptation of The Birds at Yale Repertory Theater and at The Juilliard School.

He has received numerous awards and grants including a Jerome Foundation Travel/Study Grant, a General Mills Foundation Artist Assistance Grant, and both a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship Grant and a Career Opportunity Grant. He is a 1999/2000 Fox Fellow.

He has taught classes and workshops at Cirque Du Soliel, Williamstown Theater Festival,The Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab, The Big Apple Circus, Interlochen Arts Center, Vassar College, Stella Adler Conservatory, Bard College, Fordham University, University of Texas Graduate Acting and Directing Programs, National Shakespeare Conservatory, University of Minnesota Graduate Acting Program, The Guthrie Theater, Iowa State University and Theater de la Jeune Lune.

Most recently he was a member of the faculty of the Juilliard Drama School, The Actors Center (founding faculty & Master Teacher of physical comedy/clown ), Yale School of Drama, The Academy of Classical Acting at The Shakespeare Theater in Washington D.C., New York University’s Graduate Acting Program and Tisch School of the Arts. He is currently the Director of Movement and Physcial Theater at The Brown/Trinity Consortium.