Does anyone know whether Jesus' hair in the movie was a wig (photos of the Broadway version[s] appear to show the actor's real hair) or Victor Garber's own hair? Granted, he has a mild tendency, now, in his present roles to show a slight curl, but I'm betting on the wig thing for Godspell.
shareI would sincerely hope it'd be a wig because I can't imagine going through everday life with a mop of curl that big and horrible, but then again you never know. People have done stranger things with their personal appearances.
shareI'm willing to wager that was Victor Garber's real hair--it gets windblown too often during the film, and had it been a wig...see ya!
He who conquers himself is mightier than he who conquers a city.
I've seen 'out of makeup' pix of Victor Garber from the 1970s...I think that really is his own hair. It was a popular hairstyle in the 1970s. It was called "the natural". My husband's hair is/was like that, although neither he, nor anyone else with that kind of very curly hair wears it that long anymore.
Before the 1970s, it was the fashion/custom for people with very curly hair to straighten it and/or apply all sorts of gel and lotions to it to get it to lie flat on their heads. Many people, including my husband, greeted the invention of the pick comb and the 'natural' with great relief and threw out their jars of Dippity-Do on a permanent basis!
I was in my twenties in 1973 (when Godspell" was made) and we all had our hair "permed." *Especially* those of us with naturally curly-- but unmanageable-- hair. Even the Blacks had their hair tightly permed. (You can see it in the Black guy in the movie with the great voice.)
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shareDoes anyone know whether Jesus' hair in the movie was a wig (photos of the Broadway version[s] appear to show the actor's real hair) or Victor Garber's own hair?Victor Garber wasn't in the off-Broadway or Broadway versions of the show; he's from the Toronto cast. Stephen Nathan played Jesus in the original off-Broadway version, and Don Scardino played Jesus in the Broadway version. share
I think it's his own. Of course, he's much older now so would silly with that brillo pad do.
If it was a wig, then it'd probably would've been some pink or purple shade to go with the outfit.
The guy with the moustache has the same hairstyle. It was very popular for men and women with very curly hair to wear it that way in the 70's
shareGood gravy...!!!
I was 12 years old when this came out. Back in the late sixties and very much into the seventies most young people wore their hair in its "natural" states. No longer did women spend their days getting "updo's" and shellacking their tresses with artificial and caustic lyes and dyes.
Most white girls my age weren't even into getting "perms" - tightly curled styles using some caustic potion. It was wearing their tresses long and lean - like Cher or Cheryl Tiegs.
And most black women and men were accepting the natural state of their hair ( Black is beautiful, black is free; black is soulful, black is me days) - so most wore Afros. No more "relaxers" - chemical potions that would chemically straighten tightly curled hair. Merrill and Lynne were wearing Afros. More freeing and a lot less lethal than the caustic chemical process of "relaxers". But I knew of some young white men who had tightly curled hair that wore the Afro.I knew of some white women who got a very bad "perm" and looked like they had gotten an Afro - or as they called a poodle look.
Nowadays, the Afro is worn shorter. I don't know to many black men and women who wear their hair in the big Afros of the seventies.
Garber's hair looks like a tightly curled Afro for a white guy.
It was Garber's real hair. Do a search for Toronto Godspell 1972 cast and your question will be answered. That Toronto cast gave us many stars. Don Novello, Dave Thomas with Second City, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy and Victor Garber.
shareThank you SO much for posting on my birthday.
All I can say is that I'm glad Victor Garber doesn't have that afro anymore.