The musical Hair is much like a jam band concert: it's multi-sensual, it elicits an emotional ride, and it's probably about 15 minutes too long. That said, director Heidi Fredericks shakes every last nugget from Hair's theatrical dime bag at Capital Playhouse.

If directors are reading, please take note of a trait I've always admired about Fredericks. From the moment we walk into the lobby, Hair's already begun. Members of its teenage hippie "tribe" offer to paint flowers on our faces while we wait for tickets. Over the course of the show, we're entertained by sight and sound, but also by smell and touch. Earnest young actors invite us to a be-in and pull us on stage for a curtain call dance rendition of "Let the Sun Shine In." For over two hours, we're welcomed entirely into Hair's world. That obsessive attention to detail is the key to a memorable show.

To read Christian Carvajal's full review, click here.

Hair

through Feb. 19, Wednesday-Saturday 7:30 p.m.
Sunday 2 p.m.$28-$39
Capital Playhouse, 612 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia
360.943.2744