Has anyone heard anything about an open dress rehearsal for Hair at the Hollywood Bowl? In past years, the dress on the Friday morning of the first show has been open to the public for free, but I hadn't heard anything about it this year.
I also wondered if, with nudity, a free open dress during the daylight would even be possible.
I'm very curious to see what this is going to look like. Their recent productions like Rent and Hairspray were designed very similarly to the original Broadway productions. The artwork they're using is a slight variant of recent Broadway revival so I'm assuming it's going to look similar but I haven't seen or heard much about this production at all.
I called the Hollywood Bowl this morning, and they said there is NO open dress for Hair...however, I was told the same thing last year for Chicago, and I just walked right in to the Friday morning rehearsal along with a boatload of other people. Someone official was even directing us where to sit.
I did find out from someone close to a cast member that there is, as usual, a wristband dress on Friday morning. (In past years, if you showed a wristband, you could sit in the very front section, but the general public was still admitted, you just had to sit a little further back.) So I'm going to try my luck and see if it will just be the same this year, and hope I'll be able to get in as I always have.
Worst case, you can come to the Friday night show at 8 with the rest of us eager beavers. This is one show that would feel very flat without the energy of a full audience.
I did make it into the dress this morning, as well as to the show in the evening.
I enjoyed being in the front section for the dress, to actually see the performances and staging up close. And then I enjoyed seeing it again in the evening with all of the lighting and projections.
Understandably, the actors didn't do the nudity during the dress, only during the evening performance.