Playwright, actor and composer James Rado – finest often called co-creator of musical Hair – died in hospital in Manhattan on Tuesday
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James Rado has died aged 90.
The playwright, actor and composer – finest often called co-creator of musical Hair – died in hospital in Manhattan on Tuesday.
His publicist and longtime good friend Merle Frimark confirmed the unhappy information to The New York Times, revealing that he died from cardio-respiratory arrest.
Rado first started writing trailblazing rock musical Hair in 1964 with good friend Gerome Ragni, who he met whereas appearing collectively in off-Broadway play Cling Down Your Head and Die.
Ragni died in 1991.
Opening up about their friendship on the time, he mentioned: “We have been nice pals. It was a passionate type of relationship that we directed into creativity, into writing, into creating this piece. We put the drama between us on stage.
“There was a lot pleasure within the streets and the parks and the hippie areas, and we thought if we may transmit this pleasure to the stage it could be fantastic…. We frolicked with them and went to their Be-Ins [and] let our hair develop.”
The musical first premiered off-Broadway within the autumn on 1967 and opened on Broadway a 12 months later.
Hair has seen unbelievable success through the years and has even been tailored into a movie.
It was revived in 2009 for Broadway, which earned a Tony Award for finest revival. It additionally opened its doorways on London’s West Finish.
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