Dude is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Galt MacDermot (born December 18, 1928 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian writer of musical theater, best known for the show Hair, which ran for nearly 2000 performances in both London and New York and was later made into a film in 1979. ... Gerome Bernard Ragni (September 11, 1942 - July 10, 1991) is famous as the writer and co-writer of several musicals that spoke to the generation of the 1960s. ... Gerome Bernard Ragni (September 11, 1942 - July 10, 1991) is famous as the writer and co-writer of several musicals that spoke to the generation of the 1960s. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Lion King at the New Amsterdam Theatre, 2003 Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... A rock opera or rock musical is a musical production in the form of an opera or a musical in a modern rock and roll style rather than more traditional forms. ... Gerome Bernard Ragni (September 11, 1942 - July 10, 1991) is famous as the writer and co-writer of several musicals that spoke to the generation of the 1960s. ... Galt MacDermot (born December 18, 1928 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian writer of musical theater, best known for the show Hair, which ran for nearly 2000 performances in both London and New York and was later made into a film in 1979. ...

An allegory about good and evil, the conflict between mankind's creative and destructive urges, the power of love, and the joy to be found in simple pleasures, it is peopled by characters named Mother Earth, Suzie Moon, Bread, Texaco, Esso, Extra, Shadow, Halo, World War Too, and the like. Reba and Harold, actors who believe they have been cast in Richard III, instead find themselves portraying Adam and Eve in a Garden of Eden-like setting, where they are tempted by Zero and give birth to son Dude. He grows up and succumbs to the temptations of bizarre sexual practices and illicit drugs, leaving his parents guilt-ridden, until Guide #33 assures them life is merely show business and everything has a happy ending. Allegory of Music by Filippino Lippi. ... Frontispage of the First Quarto Richard The Third. ... Michelangelos The Creation of Adam, a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, shows God creating Adam, with Eve in His arm. ... Look up eve in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Fall of Man by Lucas Cranach, a 16th century German depiction of Eden The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן ) is described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man, Adam, and the first woman, Eve, lived after they were created by God. ... It has been suggested that Duration of sexual intercourse be merged into this article or section. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

To accommodate the multimedia presentation, The Broadway Theatre was gutted and reconverted, at a cost of $800,000, into an arena filled with ramps, runways, catwalks, columns, trapezes, trapdoors, and all the mechanical and electronic gear required to bring it to life. Performers mingled among audience members, seated in areas designated "valleys," "foothills," and "hills." The musicians were divided, with brass and woodwinds against the wall of one side of the playing area and strings at the other. The overall effect was of a circus being performed in a primeval forest. ... The Broadway Theatre is located in New York City, on 1681 Broadway (Broadway and 53rd Street). ... ARENA may refer to either: Nationalist Republican Alliance, a political party in El Salvador. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Model on the catwalk during Spring 2007 Fashion Week, New York City. ... An acrobat below a balloon Trapeze artists, in lithograph by Calvert Litho. ... A trapdoor is a door set into a floor or ceiling (depending on what side of the door one is on). ... The Big Top of Billy Smarts Circus Cambridge 2004. ... Old growth forest, also called primary forest, ancient forest, virgin forest, primeval forest or ancient woodland (in the UK), is an area of forest that has attained great age and exhibits unique biological features. ...

After sixteen previews, the Broadway production, directed by Tom O'Horgan, opened on October 9, 1972. Universally crucified by the critics, who found it incomprehensible, it ran for only 16 performances. The cast included Nell Carter, Rae Allen, Salome Bey, and Ralph Carter, who won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Performer. The Lion King at the New Amsterdam Theatre, 2003 Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Tom OHorgan (born May 3, 1926) is an American theatre and film director and composer. ... is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nell Carter, as Nell Harper on Gimme a Break! Nell Carter (September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American singer and film, stage and television actress. ... Rae Allen (born Raffaella Giulia Teresa DAbruzzo on July 3, 1926 in NYC) is an American stage, film and television actress. ... Salome Bey, C.M. is an American singer, actress, and songwriter who has lived in Toronto, Ontario since 1966. ... Ralph Carter in Good Times Ralph Carter (born May 30, 1961 in New York City) is an American actor. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ...

A mere five weeks after Dude closed, MacDermot (who with Ragni had created the wildly successful Hair) experienced another major failure with the flop musical Via Galactica. Hair, subtitled The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, is a rock musical written during the anti-war sentiment and youth-sexual revolution of the 1960s. ... Via Galactica is a rock musical with a book by Christopher Gore and Judith Ross, lyrics by Gore, and music by Galt MacDermot. ...

Song list

References

• Broadway Musicals: A Hundred Year History by David H. Lewis, published by McFarland & Company (2002), page 104 (ISBN 0-786-41269-0)
• Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops by Ken Mandelbaum, published by St. Martin's Press (1998), pages 22-24 (ISBN 0-312-08273-8)

Ken Mandelbaum is an American columnist, critic, and author whose primary field of expertise is theatre. ... Headquartered in the legendary Flatiron Building in New York City, St. ...

External link

• Internet Broadway Database listing