Video: 'Hair (Original Broadway Cast Recording)' (32 videos)

(Monday, May 6, 1968) — The original Broadway cast recording of the rock musical Hair was recorded today, one week after the show opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City.

Featuring a “multiracial cast of hippies” and “full-frontal nudity of the cast” to close one scene, the show combined the music of Galt McDermot and the lyrics of James Rado and Gerome Ragni.

The show had opened off-Broadway on Oct. 17, 1967, at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater and a cast recording of that production was recorded 13 days later.

Video: 'West Coast cast of HAIR - "Smother Brothers" show, 1968, high quality version' (taped Nov. 29, 1968)