the 1979 film musical of hair be loosely base on the infamous 1960 broadway musical that become famous because of it infamous nude scene . the stage musical isn not really much more than a group of skit string together with some amuse musical number while however for the film director milo foreman ( who win an oscar for direct one flew over the cuckoos nest ) and the writer have take the basic premise of the play and the score and construct a real story to make the show more user friendly for the big screen . in the film and naive farm boy claude hooper buchowski ( john savage ) be about to go into the army and decide to spend a couple of day in new york where he meet a group of age hippy ( treat williams and dorsey wright and annie golden and don dacus ) who get him involve in a group of nutty misadventure and include the pursuit of a snooty society girl ( beverly dangelo ) . the story divide into a series of vignette that range from the ridiculous to the sublime and but it be all gorgeously photograph with a clever use of nyc location and imaginatively stag musical number ( outstandingly choreograph by the legendary twyla tharp ) . treat williams light up the screen a berger and the unconventional and free spirit hippie who do his best to get claude to loosen up and be match scene for scene by savage a claude and who bring a lovely sweetness to the role of claude . annie golden be a charmer a jeannie and the pregnant hippie who be pregnant by wright or dacus and doesn not know which one be the father and doesn not seem to care . there be one outstanding musical number after another here . aquarius be a tour through central park which include dancing horse . treat williams disrupt a fancy dinner party in i get life . black boy or white boy feature the late nell carter and ellen foley extol the ethnic virtue of men and easy to be hard be a powerful rendering of one of the best song in the show by original cast member cheryl barnes and who play wright ex girlfriend and mother of his child . this be a beautifully photograph and well act sung and and dance psychedelic acid trip of a movie that must be see and once see and will initiate multiple viewing a this dazzler have to much to offer to catch it all in one showing .