Some Have Hair Presents Some Have Hair The Making Of

SOME HAVE HAIR PRESENTS SOME HAVE HAIR: THE MAKING OF

Some Have Hair is a scathing look at the whole theatrical community, but it focuses most particularly on Michael Butler’s hit production of Hair, which ran at the Vic Theatre earlier this season. While they don’t come right out and say that’s what they’re doing, the names have barely been changed to protect the innocent. Most of the events in this satire are either fictitious or blatant embellishment, but there are a lot of striking similarities.

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The idea of a play that points a wagging finger at its own community is both fascinating and gutsy, even if it’s not completely original. The troupe Some Have Hair (Gwyn Ashley, Doreen Calderon, Jeff Lukas, Jeff Siegel), who produced, wrote, directed, and performed in Some Have Hair, deserve to be commended. Unfortunately the show itself is neither focused nor polished. The scenes in it are hit-or-miss, some making more sense than others. The piece hovers between being a play and a comedy revue, and no one seems to have taken the time to bother to make it one or the other. More important, the group lacks the satiric wit to pull it off as tongue-in-cheek documentary. They come off as a group of earnest hardworking kids who want to put on a good show.