News
Harvard Alumni Email Forwarding Services to Remain Unchanged Despite Student Protest
News
Democracy Center to Close, Leaving Progressive Cambridge Groups Scrambling
News
Harvard Student Government Approves PSC Petition for Referendum on Israel Divestment
News
Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang ’05 Elected Co-Chair of Metropolitan Mayors Coalition
News
Cambridge Residents Slam Council Proposal to Delay Bike Lane Construction
The Boston producers of Hair yesterday indefinitely suspended its performance and began to obtain the sanction of a higher court to perform the show again in its original form in Boston.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled Thursday that "each member of the cast be clothed to a reasonable extent" and that the production curtail simulations of sexual activity.
"We do not want to be in defiance of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts ruling, but we feel that we cannot perform with artistic integrity if we include the excisions that the court has demanded." the Boston producers said in a statement issued last night.
Despite the court ruling, the show ran Thursday nigh in the unexpurgated version. The cast closed the production with an improvised chant: "How dare they try to stop this music?"
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.