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James Rado
Sign in to saveAmerican actor, playwright, director, writer and composer (1932–2022)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Hair -- Vocal Selections (Broadway Version): Piano/Vocal/Chords
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932
- Active to
- 2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8,309
- Total plays
- 62,540
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James Rado (born James Radomski in 1932), is an American actor, writer and composer, best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of the groundbreaking 1960s rock musical Hair. He and Ragni were nominated for the 1969 Tony Award for best musical, and they won for best musical at the Grammy Awards in 1969. He began as an actor, reportedly did some children's theatre, and then moved to New York in the early 1960s. Prior to Hair, Rado originated <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/James+Ra
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexander
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Venice
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- The Catholic University of America
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Grammy Hall of Fame
- Image
- Red Bank Hair.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1932-00-00
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Musical
- birth name
- James Alexander Radomski
- pseudonym
- James Rado
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- writing language
- English language
- date of death
- 2022-06-21
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