Lynn Kellogg Simpers, a singer and actress who, as Lynn Kellogg, played Sheila, the uptight debutante who turns into a free-spirited hippie in the original 1968 Broadway production of “Hair,” died on Thursday in St. Louis. Her husband, John Simpers, said she had been infected at a recent gathering in a large theater in Branson, Mo. Ms. Kellogg Simpers had a non-life-threatening form of leukemia that compromised her vascular system, he added. “Hair,” the original counterculture musical created by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, ran for more than four years at the Biltmore Theater. “I did see at least one pretty girl, Lynn Kellogg,” he wrote, “and she sang a pretty song called ‘I Believe in Love.’”

Source: New York Times November 14, 2020 14:26 UTC