Hair Hollywood Bowl Dress

[Bwaymusicalfan]

Posted: 7/29/14 at 3:38pm

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.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/29/14 at 3:50pm

As long as everybody brings sunblock the audience should have no trouble being naked during the day.

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 1:49am

This is opening so soon, why has there been no rehearsal footage or pictures released? Unless I missed them...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 5:02am

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.

[PVDColleen]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 6:49pm

http://abc7.com/entertainment/musical-hair-opens-at-the-hollywood-bowl/227312/

[Bwaymusicalfan]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 7:37pm

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.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 8:18pm

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.

[Alessio2]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 8:23pm

Bwaymusical fan, do you have idea what time the rehearsal starts? I'd like to try as well.

[Bwaymusicalfan]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 8:45pm

In past years, the rehearsal has started at 10 AM.

And I already have tix for the Friday night performance regardless. =)

[Wildcard]

Posted: 8/1/14 at 7:58pm

So did anyone go to the dress rehearsal today?

[SweetLips]

Posted: 8/2/14 at 3:24am

I thought you were funny Namo--I laughed.

[Bwaymusicalfan]

Posted: 8/2/14 at 3:32am

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.