Openings We're Tracking This Week, December 12-18

Hair fills the consciousness of two generations of theatre-goers and one of film-goers. It's haunting anti-war message still speaks and the music is, well, glorious: Aquarius, Let the Sunshine In, Easy to Be Hard, Good Morning Starshine and, of course, the song which gives its name to the whole enterprise. It's time, again, for Hair. (Toronto)

Lighter, indeed, is Poodle Skirts to Platform Shoes - a musical review at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton. Chubby Checker, Jerry Lee Lewis, Neil Diamond, The Bee Gees - it's almost sing-along!

And what would the season be without a version (or several) of A Christmas Carol. Espaniola Little Theatre in Sudbury is offering Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, Tom Mula's take on the pre-Scrooge Scrooge.