History Theatre / Hair

* CoolOldLady: Margaret Mead would be this if "she" didn't turn out to be a man in drag.

%% * AnythingThatMoves: Woof.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Berger ''may'' have been able to fill in for Claude for a single anonymous roll call (he's shown giving a knowing wink to another soldier who stares at him in surprise when he answers for Claude), but as soon as the orders came through for them to ship out to Vietnam, the cat would have been out of the bag no matter what. None of Claude's gear would have fit him, none of Claude's squadmates would have kept silent because there's no way in the world they're going to deploy to combat with some asshole they've never seen before who clearly doesn't know what the fuck he's doing, Claude's squad leader, platoon sergeant, and platoon commander would have all done individual inspections of each soldier prior to boarding the plane, and Claude's squad leader would have been the first one to say "who the fuck are ''you''?" to Berger. Long before the plane took off, Berger would have been arrested for trespassing and Claude would be classified as a deserter with every cop in the area on the lookout for him. Moviegoers with military experience were rolling their eyes big time during this scene.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:"BERGER!!!"]]

%% * SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Claude.]]

** ''I Got Life'' -- a recitation of body parts (sung on top of a table in [[TheMovie the film]])

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Shiela, a rather normal if a little unruly young woman, is incredibly taken with Berger, a coolheaded leader of a counterculture group who doesn't care about what polite society thinks. Take note that his scenes where he begins to impress her are always in conjunction with someone more proper, like her brother, her family, or even Claude.

* RealityEnsues: Fun and exciting musical numbers are all well and good, until you actually do so in front of an audience that neither wanted you nor invited you to their gathering, and especially for telling off the host. The heroes get fined for harassment and party crashing.

* LyricalDissonance: ''Walking in Space'' combines acid trip lyrical imagery with depressing scenes of military training (including a gas-attack simulation) and a sad-looking Vietnamese girl singing the lyrics. (Although a singer in her own right, Linda Surh was overdubbed by the angelic-voiced Betty Buckley.)

* BailEqualsFreedom: After the party crashing, the main gang gets sent to jail and won't be able to go free unless they get somekne to bail them out with cash. No one had the funds on their own, so it took Berger begging his parents for the money to get them out.

* BailEqualsFreedom: Afyer the party crashing, the main gang gets sent to jail and won't be able to go free unless they get somekne to bail them out with cash. No one had the funds on their own, so it took Berger begging his parents for the money to get them out.

When the play resumes, there's a short skit where tribe members act out what Claude's draft interview must've been like. Berger then gives Claude a hallucinogen, and most of the act is dedicated to depicting, on-stage and with frightening accuracy, Claude's resulting MushroomSamba (we ''said'' it was experimental), which involves: a roll call of important historical figures; an Abraham Lincoln played by a black woman ("Shit, I ain't dyin for no white man!"); a slapstick comedy sequence in which some Buddhists get killed by some Catholic nuns, who get killed by some astronauts (with FrickinLaserBeams), who get killed by some Chinese, who get killed by some Native Americans, who get killed by some Green Berets, who all kill each other, and then everyone gets up and plays like children until it gets violent and they all kill each other ''again''. About this time Claude decides reality would be better and snaps out of it, having decided that he wants to be "a spirit invisible." That is what he becomes: the tribe holds an anti-war protest, but can't see Claude because he has succumbed to the draft. He is shielded from the audience's eyes while the closing number goes on, eventually revealed to be lying dead on the ground, at which point he is covered with a black cloth. The cast reprises the final number and [[DancePartyEnding invites the audience to come up on stage and dance with them]].

* YourCheatingHeart: With a good dose of GoodAdulteryBadAdultery as well, concerning Hud's fiancee. He had already been with her and had a child by her before running off with the gang, her and their son none the wiser. When she figures out where he's been ''and'' that he may have a child by Jeanie too, she's understandably mad.

* NotableOriginalMusic: The soundtrack on its own has almost become as popular as the show. "Aquarius" and "Let the Sunshine In" themselves are so famous a lot of people don't know it comes from a show.