It’s the dawning of the “Age of Aquarius” on with our screening of the amazing flower-child, free love generation musical, Hair. Sure it’s hot outside, but funnel that heat into song, dance, drugs and love. Groovy.

With its debut at New York's Public Theater in 1967, James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot’s raucously profane musical about hippies and the free love movement instantly became an essential element of our pop culture. After 1750 performances on Broadway, Hair closed in 1973. It took director Milos Forman six more years to get his movie adaptation made; everyone said it was un-filmable. They were wrong: the film shimmers with cinematic love, heightened by Twyla Tharp’s extraordinary choreography. Politics are intertwined with sexuality and hummable tunes to create one of the best movie musicals ever made. Claude (John Savage) is an Oklahoma hayseed inducted into the army. Before he is sent off to fight in Vietnam, he has a few days in New York City where he meets up with a ragtag group of hippies led by Berger (Treat Williams) and falls in love with Sheila (Beverly D’Angelo). Hair is a film exploding with dance, song, sex, romance, drugs and humor. Are you too young to have experienced the '60s? This wonderful film will show you what you missed. -- Scott Cranin