Milos Forman’s HAIR, set in Central Park, will kick off free musical film series in Washington Square Park
Washington Square Park
September 15, 19, 22, free, half hour after sunset
www.ifccenter.com
www.nycgovparks.org
NYU and the IFC Center are celebrating the renovations in Washington Square Park with three nights of film screenings that also say goodbye to summer. “Movies on the Square: All Singing! All Dancing! All New York!” begins on September 15 with Milos Forman’s 1979 cinematic version of the revolutionary Broadway musical Hair, starring John Savage, Treat Williams, and Beverly D’Angelo as part of a group of hippies and a straitlaced draftee hanging out in Central Park, pontificating about life, love, and the Vietnam War. On September 19, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin (who?) are three sailors going out on the town in Kelly and Stanley Donen’s decidedly Hollywood-ized version of the Leonard Bernstein/Comden & Green musical On the Town, featuring the classic “New York, New York.” The series closes on September 22 with Charlie Ahearn’s pivotal 1983 graffiti party, Wild Style, which includes appearances by street-art legends in addition to a seminal hip-hop soundtrack.