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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?"
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