this is the DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS-from “HAIR”
~ Opening hook of the medley “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine” performed by the 5TH DIMENSION, merged two songs from the controversial, and in turn groundbreaking Broadway smash, “HAIR”. The time, 1969.
Synchronicity and Serendipity joined forces when a wallet lost was returned to one of the groups members while performing in New York by Hair’s producer, Michael Butler and mutual show invitations ensued.
Butler, son of the wealthy Co-founder of the Village of Oak Brook, Illinois, the Midwest’s version of Beverly Hills, was thus birth-righted an “All Access Social Pass” to the American Royalty of the times, most notably including John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whom as a U. S. Senator he advised on Middle East and Indian matters in the 1950's.
During a failed run for the Illinois Senate in 1967, he developed an anti-Vietnam War focus, and after being blown away by the original limited run production of “HAIR”, acquired the rights. He then reworked the show (adding the infamous nude scene) and from its re-opening in April 1968 ; It ran for 1,742…
