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>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/james-rado-who-co-created-pioneering-hair-dies-at-90/ar-AAYJBqd?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e86f83a8a5cd4312be4c2e086349bf96

NEW YORK (AP) -- James Rado, co-creator of the groundbreaking hippie musical
"Hair," which celebrated protest, pot and free love and paved the way for the
sound of rock on Broadway, has died. He was 90.

Rado died Tuesday night in New York City of cardio respiratory arrest, according
to friend and publicist Merle Frimark.
"Hair," which has a story and lyrics by Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt
MacDermot, was the first rock musical on Broadway, the first Broadway show to
feature full nudity and the first to feature a same-sex kiss.

"Hair" made possible other rock musicals like "Jesus Christ Superstar" and
"Rent." Like "Hamilton," it was one of only a handful of Broadway shows in the
past few decades to find its songs on the pop charts.

The so-called "American tribal love-rock musical," had its world premiere at the
Public Theater in New York City's East Village in 1967 and transferred the
following year to Broadway, where the musical ran more than 1,800 performances.
Rado played Claude, a young man about to be drafted and sent to the war in
Vietnam.

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