Some musical do and can reflect the period in which they were first performed. Hair certainly did that for the 1960s, and Rent has done that for the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. How do each of these shows reflect or speak for the time periods in which they were first performed?
What will be an ideal response?
With Hair's depiction of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution and Rent's exploration of homosexuality and HIV/AIDS, both musicals reflected the time period of their debuts both in their themes and in the music used in the production.
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