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The Public Theatre struggled to raise the $5.5 million budgeted for
the Broadway transfer, because of the severity of the economic
recession in late 2008, but it reached its goal by adding new
producing partners. Director Diane Paulus helped keep costs low by
using an inexpensive set. The show grossed a healthy $822,889 in its
second week.[191][192] On April 30, 2009 on the Late Show with David
Letterman, the cast recreated a performance on the same stage at the
Ed Sullivan Theater by the original tribe.[193] The production won the
Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical,[194] the Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Revival of a Musical[195] and the Drama League Award
for Distinguished Revival of a Musical.[196] By August 2009, the
revival had recouped its entire $5,760,000 investment, becoming one of
the fastest-recouping musicals in Broadway history.[197]

When the Broadway cast transferred to London for the 2010 West-End
revival, a mostly new tribe took over on Broadway on March 9, 2010,
including former American Idol finalists Ace Young as Berger and Diana
DeGarmo as Sheila. Kyle Riabko assumed the role of Claude, and
Annaleigh Ashford played Jeanie.[198] The revival celebrated the
completion of its first year on March 31, 2010.[199] Due to decreases
in sales beginning after the original cast transferred to London, the
revival closed on June 27, 2010 after 29 previews and 519 regular
performances.[200][201]

A U.S. National Tour of the production is scheduled to begin in
October 2010.[202]
[edit] 2010 West End revival

The 2009 Broadway production was duplicated at the Gielgud Theatre in
London's West End. Previews began on April 1, 2010 with an official
opening on April 14. The producers are the Public Theatre, together
with Cameron Mackintosh and Broadway Across America. Nearly all of the
New York cast relocated to London. A new addition to the London cast
was Luther Creek as Woof.[203][204] The London revival is scheduled to
close on September 4, 2010 upon the expiration of the cast's contracts.
[205]

The production received mostly enthusiastic reviews. Michael
Billington of The Guardian described it as "a vibrant, joyous piece of
living theatre", writing, "it celebrates a period when the joy of life
was pitted against the forces of intolerance and the death-dealing
might of the military-industrial complex. As Shakespeare once said:
'There's sap in't yet.'"[206] Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph
agreed: "This is a timely and irresistibly vital revival of the
greatest of all rock musicals. ... The verve and energy of the
company ... is irresistible."[207] Michael Coveney of The Independent
wrote that Hair is "one of the great musicals of all time, and a
phenomenon that, I'm relieved to discover, stands up as a period
piece".[208] In The Times, Benedict Nightingale commented that "it's
exhilarating, as well as oddly poignant, when a multihued cast dressed
in everything from billowing kaftans to Ruritanian army jackets race
downstage while delivering that tuneful salute to an age of Aquarius
that still refuses to dawn."[209] Quentin Letts was a dissenting voice
in the Daily Mail. Though praising the performances and the
production, he wrote: "by the end the fraudulence of the gaiety
becomes sickening. There is a lack of truthfulness in Hair which may
not have been apparent when it was first performed in New York City in
1967 but which, today, is unavoidable."[210]
[edit] International success

Hair has been performed in most of the countries of the world. Rado
wrote in 2003 that the only places where the show hadn't been
performed were "China, India, Vietnam, the Arctic and Antarctic
continents as well as most African countries."[163]

After the Berlin Wall fell, the show traveled for the first time to
Poland, Lebanon, the Czech Republic, and Sarajevo (featured on ABC's
Nightline with Ted Koppel, when Phil Alden Robinson visited that city
and discovered a production of Hair there in the midst of the war).
[163] In 1999, Michael Butler and director Bo Crowell helped produce
Hair in Russia at the Stas Namin Theatre located in Moscow's Gorky
Park. The Moscow production caused a similar reaction as the original
did 30 years earlier because Russian soldiers were fighting in
Chechnya at the time.[211][212]

In April 2010, a short run of Hair played at the amphitheatre of the
Garden of Five Senses in New Delhi, India, a city that rarely presents
musicals. A full production is planned for October 2010 to coincide
with the 2010 Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi.[213]

On December 2010, a Spanish production will open at Teatre Apolo,
Barcelona directed by Daniel Anglès.
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