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A noisy wake for hair. A capacity audience of more than 1,400 joined cast of Hair in a noisy wake for the hit rock musical which closed at the Royal A(...)
A noisy wake for hair. A capacity audience of more than 1,400 joined cast of Hair in a noisy wake for the hit rock musical which closed at the Royal A(...)

A noisy wake for hair. A capacity audience of more than 1,400 joined cast of Hair in a noisy wake for the hit rock musical which closed at the Royal A(...)

Date1/3/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: A noisy wake for hair. A capacity audience of more than 1;400 joined cast of Hair in a noisy wake for the hit rock musical which closed at the Royal Alex last night after record-breaking run. Audience joined in hand-clapping rendition of a song that wasn't even in the show; John Lennon's Give Peace A Chance; and some of the actors wept.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0103218F
Spoofing the golden years of '50s rock in their glittering suits and greased hair, New York band Sha Na Na had a capacity audience shouting for more i(...)
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Party marks hair record. The cast of Hair at the Royal Alex Theatre celebrated the show's record as the longest running legitimate show in Canada with(...)
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6/3/1970
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7/6/1971
Some hairy tales indeed. The twain did meet in Toronto last night at a joint party for the casts of the west of Yonge St. production of Hair and the e(...)
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Joe Clark (right) enjoys a joke with the other members of the cast of Hair, (left to right) Laurel Ward and Rachel Jacobson, and with Pam and Dick Ste(...)
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12/17/1971
Now the stars of the Ice Capades, skating team Barbara Underhill, 21, and Paul Martini, 24, are still trying to get used to a noisy audience. 'Competing is different from entertaining,' says Martini
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3/17/1985
Residents leave for higher ground, More than 85 familys on one street alone had to fle their homes in the wake fo flood waters from Lake St. Clair
Residents leave for higher ground, More than 85 familys on one street alone had to fle their homes in the wake fo flood waters from Lake St. Clair
3/17/1973
Residents leave for higher ground, More than 85 familys on one street alone had to flee their homes in the wake of flood waters from Lake St. Clair
Residents leave for higher ground, More than 85 familys on one street alone had to flee their homes in the wake of flood waters from Lake St. Clair
3/17/1973
Head Motorhead: Lemmy, as he calls himself, is leader-bassist-singer of noisy rock band that overloaded on sonic booms at the Music Hall last night
Head Motorhead: Lemmy, as he calls himself, is leader-bassist-singer of noisy rock band that overloaded on sonic booms at the Music Hall last night
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Among the opening night audience at the opening of the musical Hair last night were Liberal biggies Paul Hellyer, top, and Robert Nixon, bottom. ''The(...)
Among the opening night audience at the opening of the musical Hair last night were Liberal biggies Paul Hellyer, top, and Robert Nixon, bottom. ''The(...)
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