Also credited on6 works
Hair
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Dude
Via Galactica
The Human Comedy
Hair (2009 Revival)
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- On 27 September 1968, the Broadway musical sensation Hair , with book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot, opened for what would become a five year run at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre. Billed as ‘The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,’ it captured the very essence of the peace and love flower-power cultur…ebooks/Bagnall, Rob/Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden.txt
- Around this same time Galt MacDermot adapted William Saroyan's World War II novel The Human Comedy as a musical. The material was full of potential, but MacDermot's surfeit of music didn't always capitalize on it. Here was a case where an old-fashioned craftsmanlike book might have given the material a sense of structure, a spine. The mus…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Although the composers had been paying homage to Lloyd Webber, they now chose to honor Galt MacDermot. The Prosecutor’s address to the jury referenced Hair ’s “Abie Baby.” But the Defense Attorney’s “Damned No Matter How He Turned” made him neither effective nor professional: “Something tells me that something terribly wrong is happening…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- This hugely successful revival was bolstered by a top-to-bottom scrubbing of the score, with original composer Galt MacDermot and surviving lyricist James Rado supervising. A key member of the onstage band, drummer Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, played on the original Off-Broadway recording of the show in 1967. Cast members broke down the fourt…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- With book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot, the psychedelic, impressionist musical ignored almost every rule in the book. It offered non-rhyming lyrics, various songs that didn’t end but rather slowed down or segued into the next number, four-letter words, nudity, sexual content, an integrated and some…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
- After Hair , Galt MacDermot wrote three more scores for Broadway. In 1971, Joseph Papp mounted Two Gentlemen of Verona , another update of Shakespeare, although less explicitly contemporary than Your Own Thing. Critics raved about the production, but only a few singled out MacDermot’s music, which Clive Barnes described as a mix of ‘rock,…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
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