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Title: Something you'd hear in a high school theatre production
Review: "Hair" in general is a brilliant thesis on the peace, love, and freedom movement of the 60's. The original Broadway cast recording is outstanding. This recording unfortunately fails to do justice to the great music that is "Hair". The songs are poorly mixed, with overpowering background vocals, which in retrospect are probably a blessing, as the lead vocals are poor at best. The lead singers are unable to cover the range the songs require, and on some of the pieces their voices crack, screech, and change octaves like teens going through puberty. Ultimately it's the director who is at fault though, since apparently they believed they could arrange these pieces better than the songs' creators. They couldn't, and we the listeners suffer.
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