'Hair' they go: Rock musical comes to Woodstock (video)

When actors command the stage, they create another persona. Not so, however, with “Hair,” its director says, as the Castaway Players Theatre Company brings the rock musical to Woodstock this weekend.

“No one in the ‘Tribe’ is acting,” said director Sean Matthew Whiteford, who founded the company in 2005. He was 17. “Everyone on stage is himself or herself. They share their souls with the audience.”

He didn’t hesitate when asked, among so many musicals from which to choose, why “Hair”?

“It’s great music,” he said. “I’ve been listening to it since I was 12 on my parents’ vinyl.

“The material lends itself to a certain state of mind on different issues,” Whiteford added. “I did the show five years ago and had no idea what I was in for.

“’Hair’ was a life-changing experience for me and everyone involved five years ago,” he said. “We were all so much happier, less stressed out in our normal lives. We were at peace — when we were not rehearsing.

“I was certainly familiar with traditional aspects of theater, but ‘Hair’ was the first rock musical and it broke all the rules,” he said. “It still shocks people.”

He also said he was taken aback by the unusual script: It’s almost completely unstructured, with minimal character development. Actors, with direction, must create the subtext.

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