Marcia Hines on coming to Australia as a teenager to perform in Hair | Anh's Brush With Fame

Описание: Marcia Hines recalls when she moved over to Australia at just 16 years old to perform in the musical Hair and finding out she was pregnant shortly after. #ABWF
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When an opportunity to perform in the brand-new musical Hair came up, Marcia jumped at it. There was just one catch - the production was in Australia.

I knew nothing about Australia!

Yeah?

Nothing! When you're 16, you're bulletproof. You better be, you know?
So, I was just totally bulletproof. And I knew I'd gotten a good gig because I had great money...

Yeah.

You know, and... I've always been taught to be responsible, so, I had a job, and when you have a job, you have to turn up and present yourself and perform for that job, and I did. It was great. It was fantastic.

Hair opened in June 1969 amid protests and bomb threats because it questioned the establishment with its anti-Vietnam themes and full-frontal nudity.

I remember saying, "Oh, no, I won't do the nude scene." They said, "OK, you don't have to do the nude scene."

And then as soon as I got on stage, I went, "Yeah, I think I'll do the nude scene." Because the camaraderie was so great. But, you know, if you blinked, you missed it.

Yeah.

And it was really discreet, discreet lighting. I think it was in very good taste.

That would've been seen as so progressive and dangerous and...

Yeah! (GASPS) It was one of those moments.

Yeah!

Yeah. I think it was probably considered the most...

Risque.

Risque show on Earth. (LAUGHS) As if. But yeah. Then, you know, it's all relative.