The hit Broadway musical Hair has announced closing notices at the West Ends Gielgud Theatre, despite opening to rave reviews in April this year. Hair will now be closing three months earlier than originally billed, with theatre tickets booking until 4th September.

The Tony Award winning show has graced the London theatre with the full American cast, which includes Gavin Creele in the lead role of Claude, previously been seen playing Bert in the West End hit Mary Poppins. Other cast members include Will Swenson as Berger and Cassie Levy as Sheila.

According to a spokesperson on behalf of the American producers, they do not wish to re-cast the show following the Broadway company run, giving us “14 weeks to see this extraordinary company and a bit of West End history”.

Hair is set in New York during the late 1960s, in a time of freedom, love and drugs. However when Claude is drafted for the Vietnam war, all is disrupted, and he and his hippy tribe take us on a musical fight for free love and world peace.

The score includes numbers such as “Let the Sun Shine In”, “Aquarius’ and “Good Morning Starshine”. The music is written by Galt Mac Dermot with lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni.

The musical was last seen in the West End at The Shaftesbury Theatre in 1968, and was the first to open after Lord Chamberlains censorship was abolished in Britain.

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The Tony award winning musical Hair has opened at the Gielgud Theatre in London at the West End, following a hugely successful run on Broadway. Theatre tickets for the show are on sale now.

Its 1967, an era of war, tribal rock and long hair. A political troupe of long-haired hippies living in New York City launch rebellion against their conservative upbringing and the Vietnam war, enjoying love, freedom and sexual revolution. When Claude is called up, he must make the decision whether to stand up for war or for peace.

Hair is written by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, with music from Galt MacDermot. The score features hit songs such as Let The Sunshine In, Age of Aquarius, Good Morning Starshine and Hair – all of which became hippy anthems of the anti-war movement.

Hair originally premiered in 1967 off-Broadway, until its huge success lead to a Broadway transfer to the Great White Way a year later. Here it won a Tony award for Best Musical. Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London in 1968, starring Elaine Page, Tim Curry, Richard O’Brien and Paul Nicholas, running until 1973 when it had to close after the Shaftesbury Theatre roof fell in

This new production is brought to the stage by Public Theatre, and won a Tony award in 2009 for Best Revival of a Musical. The original cast has transferred with the show.

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