Gerome Ragni

On stage 2 productions, 4 years

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Also credited on2 works

Dude
Hair (2009 Revival)

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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
• From Hair book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado (still playing everywhere) comes a lyric in nine lines, seven of which begin with "I got" and end with "life, mister," "laughs, sister," and end finally with "And bad times too/Like you" for fourteen additional stanzas in this pattern, followed by two other sections in other pattern…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
• These lyrics sounded as if they’d been scribbled on scraps of paper, and some of them were, as Gerome Ragni and James Rado traveled on subways or ate in restaurants. In their eventual Playbill bio, they happily referred to what they’d written as “non-book and lyrics.” The lyrics don’t read particularly well, but they sang once Galt MacDer…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Cast: Steve Curry, Ronald Dyson, Sally Eaton, Leata Galloway, Paul Jabara, Diane Keaton, Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore, Shelley Plimpton, James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Lamont Washingtonebooks/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
• Dude, subtitled The Highway Life, with book and lyrics by Hair ’s coauthor Gerome Ragni, seemed to be about Dude, who represented Everyman, and his temptation by Zero, who represented Satan. God, here called #33, ultimately won out and gave Dude back his innocence. Perhaps the most incomprehensible show ever presented on a Broadway stage,…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt

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