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a piece of work is “Hair,” Gerome </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: arial'>Ragni,
James Rado and Galt MacDermot’s </SPAN><SPAN class=st><SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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of the 1960s.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia>In form and moving, how out of sync it is with the youth culture,
social norms and political scene of the young actors – members of the Baldwin
Wallace University musical theater program – performing in the Beck Center for
the Arts production.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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face=Georgia>The current production, under Victoria Bussert’s direction,
valiantly attempts to give this receding ‘Hair’ a comb-over by finding parallels
between the atrocities facing today’s world and the world of the ‘60s.<SPAN
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