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 Gerome Ragni Obituary - Variety - July 22, 1991   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Gerome Ragni, 48, the actor who co-wrote the musical hair, died July 10 in New york of cancer.
Ragni composed the book and lyrics for the hit show with james Rado, while Galt MacDermot composed the music.
With Stephen Margoshes, Ragni also wrote "Jack Sound And His Dog Star Blowing His Final Trumpet On The Day Of Doom," which was performed at the Ensemble Studio Theater in 1977.
www.michaelbutler.com /hair/holding/articles/MiscellaneousArticles/GerobitVariety7-22-91.html   (307 words)

  
 Stage Preview: Pittsburgh native was creative force behind controversial '60s musical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She moved here in 1986 from New Hampshire where, separated from Gerome but still married, she had gone to raise their son, Eric.
It was a natural move here, since she was good friends with his "large and funny" Pittsburgh family, with whom she once lived, taking classes at Pitt in the 1960s.
Gerome Ragni and co-librettist/lyricist James Rado (Galt McDermont composed the score) wrote "Hair" because they wanted good parts.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05307/599442.stm   (1103 words)

  
 Before HAIR With Rado and Ragni
Very shortly after, "The Knack" was called to New York and Rado and Ragni had to give the capitol punishment project the death sentence.
When Rado and Ragni popped into this place of places, their hair was matched only by Tiny Tim's waist long strands.
Rado's blond hair was well on its way, and Ragni had a dark "natural" spreading-style doo that needed extra special room.
www.chamberblues.com /adventures/corkhair.html   (1330 words)

  
 Gerome Ragni Biography / Biography of Gerome Ragni Elements of Pop Culture Biography
The collaborative theatrical team of Gerome Ragni and James Rado created Hair (1967), the first rock musical on Broadway.
Though the show remained Ragni and Rado's only major success, it was a substantial one.
This is the complete Gerome Ragni Elements of Pop Culture Biography section.
www.bookrags.com /biography-ragni-gerome-1942-1991-and-james-ra-sjpc-04   (240 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Hair (musical) Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It was written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermot.
It was written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni (lyrics), and Galt MacDermot (music).
It premiered off-Broadway on October 17, 1967, and moved to the Biltmore Theater on Broadway on April 29 1968 where it stayed for 1472 performances.
www.ipedia.com /hair__musical_.html   (444 words)

  
 Broadway: The American Musical . Hello, Broadway! . Broadway and the Rock Score | PBS
For the first 50 years of its existence, the music of Broadway was the music of America, but beginning in 1954, a schism grew between Broadway and commercially popular music.
The show that brought rock music to Broadway was born downtown at the eastern fringes of Greenwich Village, at the Public Theatre, which was run by the brazen and mercurial Joseph Papp.
A couple of unemployed actors, Gerome Ragni and James Rado, cobbled together a musical script about life among the flower children in New York's East Village.
www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/hello/rock.html   (1070 words)

  
 hair musical and other musicals related information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
HAIR (subtitled “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical”) was created by the three gentlemen pictured here, Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot and James Rado.   Jerry and Jim, from Pittsburgh, Pa. and...
This website is dedicated to telling the truth about the origin and evolution of HAIR, the show that first came into public view in October 1967, a story of a...
Hair the musical review [1968]: Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado Music by Galt MacDermot Prologue The "year" is 1968.
www.nethorde.com /musicals/hair-musical.html   (254 words)

  
 Classic cult comedy films on video from The New York Film Annex: Transvestites Thieves and Hippies!
John Houston, Trueman Capote, Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Merely, Peter Lorre, Viva, Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Shirley Clarke, Divine, David Lochary and Mary Vivian Pearce.
Ragni, Rado and Viva play themselves, waiting for their big Hollywood break and casually drifting into a menage a trois.
Varda captures the quirky, laid back lifestyle of 1960's Los Angeles as her characters contemplate metaphysics, the dangers of milk consumption, Hollywood sinking into the ocean, and try to understand why the Bank of America does not have a cash delivery service for non-customers.
www.nyfavideo.com /content/cat-TRANSTHIEVS.htm   (603 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Arts: Exhibitionism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Whatever else these shows fail to achieve, they manage to encapsulate the look, sound, and feel of an era through their music and stories.
So it is with HAIR, written in 1967 by Gerome Ragni and James Rado.
While the show is no Hamlet in its depth, music is so central to the piece that its story's thin thread seems unimportant.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-08-09/arts_exhibitionism2.html   (535 words)

  
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The story delves into the central issues of the time — the draft, love, sex, drugs, racism — while the music captures the sounds of the time and pushes the genre of Broadway musical to new limits.
Hair was created in 1967 by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, two out-of-work actors who set out to create a play that captured the excitement they felt as young people began to demand social change.
With backing for the production in place, Rado and Ragni recruited Gerome Galt as the composer who would score the now-familiar music of Hair.
www.csf.edu /webwriter/file/639-Hair_pr.doc   (603 words)

  
 Hair (musical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni (book and lyrics), and Galt MacDermot (music).
The original cast previewed a few performances at a go-go club called The Cheetah.
, cast) included James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Shelley Plimpton, Kim Milford, Melba Moore, Paul Jabara, and Diane Keaton (in a minor role).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hair_(musical)   (1017 words)

  
 Piano Sheet Music - Vocal Selections From "Hair" (Vocal Selections - Piano)
Browse All Vocal Sheet Music Composed By Gerome Ragni.
Air - Composed by: James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermott - From: Musical "Hair" - ©1966
White Boys - Composed by: James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermott - From: Musical "Hair" - ©1966
www.encoremusic.com /vocal/1700432.html   (728 words)

  
 Hair Photo Index
Gerry Ragni and Jim Rado at the 2nd birthday Party/Concert
Gerome Ragni circa 1972, around the time of Hair's Broadway closing
PLEASE NOTE: Additional photos of James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot, and Tom O'Horgan can be found in the Rainbow, Dude and Pre and Post Hair sections of the site.
www.orlok.com /hair/holding/photographs/hair/HairPhotoIndex.html   (480 words)

  
 Hair
This show has a vitality, a timelessness and a meaning that outlives the late 1960's and early 1970's in America.
When HAIR moved to Broadway after 144 Off-Broadway performances at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, it played for 1,750 performances on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre starring James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Lynn Kellogg, and Sally Eaton.
It was revived on Broadway in 1977 at the Biltmore Theatre starring Randall Easterbrook, Michael Holt, Ellen Foley and Iris Rosenkrantz.
www.tamswitmark.com /musicals/hair.html   (821 words)

  
 Lyrical Cats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dead End - by Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado
Dead End (1969 script) - by Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado
Donna - by Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado
www.kalliroscope.net /lyricalcats/d.html   (118 words)

  
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Principal cast includes: Ronald Dyson (Ron); James Rado (Claude); Gerome Ragni (Berger); Steve Curry (Woof); Lamont Washington (Hud); Lynn Kellogg (Sheila); Sally Eaton (Jeanie); Melba Moore (Dionne); Shelley Plimpton (Crissy); Diane Keaton (Waitress); Jonathan Kramer (Young Recruit); Paul Jabara (General Grant); Lorrie Davis (Abraham Lincoln); Donnie Burks (Sergeant).
The first and best musical of the hippie peace and love generation, with a score by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and composer Galt Macdermot.
The show and the album were quite different to the usual Broadway fare, but songs such as `Aquarius`, `Good Morning Starshine`, `Let The Sunshine In` and the title number, soon went on to have a life of their own.
www.overstock.com /sm---pg-PRODUCT_pi-558510_ti-82125.html   (360 words)

  
 Music CD: Hair - The American Tribal Love Rock Musical (1968 Original Broadway Cast). Galt MacDermot, James Rado, ...
Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Tracks: Aquarius - Ronald Dyson, Donna - Gerome Ragni, Hashish - Melba Moore, Sodomy - Steve Curry, Colored Spade - Lamont Washington, Manchester England - James Rado, I'm Black - Steve Curry, Ain't Got No - Melba Moore, I Believe In Love - Me Music Olympus CD Store
Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Tracks: Aquarius - Ronald Dyson, Donna - Gerome Ragni, Hashish - Melba Moore, Sodomy - Steve Curry, Colored Spade - Lamont Washington, Manchester England - James Rado, I'm Black - Steve Curry, Ain't Got No - Melba Moore, I Believe In Love - Me. CD
Written by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, and music by Galt MacDermot in 1967 on Off-Broadway, (that cast is featured in this two disc set, as well as the orginal Broadway cast, and an interview with Galt MacDermot) Then moved on to Broadway in 1968, where it stayed for four years to sold out crowds.
www.musicolympus.com /cd-store/B000002W1S/Hair___The_American_Tribal_Love_Rock_Musical_1968_Original_Broadway_Cast_-_Galt_MacDermot.html   (1087 words)

  
 Hair (+ Extras) - techwritingjobs.com Info and Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
by: Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Original London Cast, Elaine Paige, Paul Nicholas
If you are an avid collector of Ragni and Rado's Hair items, this is a definite item for your collection.
Several disappointments though: the exclusion of "Flesh Failures/Let The Sun Shine In" that was on the LP version of The London Cast.
www.techwritingjobs.com /shop/asinsearch_B000008131.html   (499 words)

  
 Lyrical Cats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Walking In Space - by Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado
What a Piece of Work is Man - by Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado
White Boys - by Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado
www.kalliroscope.net /lyricalcats/w.html   (265 words)

  
 Hair's anti-war message as relevant as ever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Written by out-of-work actors Gerome Ragni and James Rado in 1967, Hair brought to the stage the political, social and cultural explosions of the 1960s, triggered by a massive movement against the US war in Vietnam.
Centring on the character of Claude being drafted into the army, writers Rado and Ragni make it clear that the war is not only racist, but is merely the next chapter in a long history of imperialism which has seen the “white man” being pitted against the “red man” and the “fl man”.
Focusing on the capture of poorly armed and often barefooted Vietnamese liberation fighters by the better armed, but nonetheless scared US draftees, the song describes combatants “ripped open by metal explosions” in “this dirty little war”;.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2003/535/535p25.htm   (1321 words)

  
 DVD REVIEW: HAIR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Not only do the musical numbers bristle (Twyla Tharp did the choreography), but so does the city around them.
Michael Weller adapted the Gerome Ragni and James Rado book for the big screen, and he retains their ideal ology while infusing some of his own.
It's a potent mix that works well in the frame of the film.
www.lightviews.com /hairdvd.htm   (947 words)

  
 Feature Item - poparchives.com.au
Also recorded in Australia in 1969 on albums by the Australian cast (Wayne Matthews, Keith Glass and Tribe), The Executives and The Flying Circus.
Opened on Broadway April 1968 and ran until 1972.
The rock'n'roll musical Hair - set in October 1967 - opened on 18 October 1967 at the Florence Sutro Anspacher Theatre as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival.
poparchives.com.au /feature.php?id=493   (390 words)

  
 1700432ED - Vocal Selections From "Hair" - Piano (Vocal Selections)
This book of printed sheet music features selections from the fun musical "Hair".
Written by James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermot, "Hair" has lots of songs that you know.
Not only is this book loaded with your favorite holiday songs, but it is also packed with tons of full color pictures that have been featured on Hallmark Christmas cards.
www.pianospot.com /1700432.html   (693 words)

  
 Index of Compositions Performed by Joe Hunt
Air (Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado) ca.
Frank Mills (Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado) ca.
Intermission (Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado) ca.
www.jazzdiscography.com /Artists/Hunt/jh-comp.htm   (1854 words)

  
 Feature Item - poparchives.com.au
(Galt MacDermot - James Rado - Gerome Ragni)
Family pop band, four brothers occasionally joined by Ma and kid sister, and managed by Pa. Their other big hits were The Rain, The Park And Other Things (1967) and Indian Lake (1968).
You can read The New York Times review by Clive Barker online at Nina Machlin Dayton's Hair Online Archives.
www.poparchives.com.au /feature.php?id=493   (390 words)

  
 Footlight.com > Hair - Galt Mcdermot - Gerome Ragni & James Rado   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Gerome Ragni and James Rado
James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Gerome Ragni and James Rado
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Supported by composer Galt MacDermot's rock music score, Hair celebrated the 1960s hippie lifestyle and examined the concerns of America's youth at that time--anti-war beliefs, sexual freedoms, drug use, and the search for community.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200983   (226 words)

  
 Aquarius - Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado
Aquarius - Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado
When the moon is in the Seventh House
We are the spirit of the age of Aquarius
www.marcogiunco.com /Testi/001912_01.htm   (59 words)

  
 HAIR
de los autores GEROME RAGNI, JAMES RADO y GALT MC DERMOT
by GEROME RAGNI, JAMES RADO and GALT MC DERMOT
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius...
www.angelfire.com /ar/aurelioferretti/Aquarius.html   (180 words)

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