It has levels, made of mesh wire flooring, rather like a fire escape, and a functioning traffic light, and and a lit up Waverly sign. The overall effect was a stylized collage of NYC. I think the Scott Pask set for the B'way revival was a kind of homage, though it had more depth and more color.
People tend to remember "Hair" grittier than it actually ended up, commercially produced. When the show moved from the Public to the Biltmore, O'Horgan certainly made concessions to B'way fgitze, and simple as it was, it looked dazzling. The set was simple and skeletal in design, but still very much a real set. It was not the sort of carved out "Our Town" idea some believe. It had major lighting effects, dry ice and smoke, strobe, etc., all provided by the master, Jules Fisher. |
