After a difficult start he proves a surprise hit with the modern-day audience.

"I want the modern-day audience to have the real emotional experience of 'Hair,' " he said, "to understand what was happening at the time."

This series will offer modern-day audiences a tiny fraction of what was heard.

"For a modern-day audience, you could not have him just blithely take off without some form of questioning," he said.

"I don't see MTV as an element in our show, but it is an important catalyst to the modern-day audience."

Much silent film acting is apt to strike modern-day audiences as simplistic or campy.

Fairytales are getting major movie makeovers as some of the classics get retold in ways meant to appeal to modern-day audiences.

After a difficult start, he proves a surprise hit with the modern-day audience, especially the adult chaperones when they realize their girlhood idol is on-stage.

Steel's dismissive attitude toward Native Americans in the area was characteristic of the times but struck a chord with modern-day audiences.

As such, it shows the changes of social attitudes throughout and may contain terms of language, imagery or attitude that modern-day audiences might find offensive or difficult.