Post-Dude
In 1977 Ragni and Rado collaborated with Steve Margoshes on a new show called Jack Sound and His Dog Star Blowing His Final Trumpet on the Day of Doom, produced off-Broadway by the Ensemble Studio Theatre. It played a short run alongside an ill-fated Broadway revival of Hair that ran for forty-three performances in total and starred Ragni and Rado as the bogus cops who bust the show.
In 1990 Ragni, Rado, MacDermot, and Steve Margoshes, collaborated on a new musical called Sun, also known as YMCA. It was an environmental musical about politics, pollution and the rain forests being cut down amongst other topics. A three-disc cast recording was made after a performance at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall by independent company Rado Records. Sun has been in development since the mid-1970s and an early version was staged for backers in 1976, directed by John Vaccaro with appearances by Ruby Lynn Reyner and Annie-Joe Edwards. The script is based on a play by Joyce Greller, the New York writer.
Revision of Rado's musical Rainbow Rainbeam Radio Roadshow: The Ghost of Vietnam (also known as Billy Earth: The New Rainbow and The White Haunted House: American Soldier) was also undertaken.
Ragni died of cancer in New York age 55 before the revised musical sequel to Hair, by Rado and his brother Ted, could be undertaken.
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