Rado was born to Alexander and Blanche (Bukowski) Radomski on January 23, 1932, in Los Angeles and was raised in Irondequoit, New York, and Washington, D.C. In college, Rado majored in Speech and Dram… See more

Rado and Ragni became friends and began writing Hair together in late 1964. Rado explained, "We were great friends. It was a passionate kind of relationship that we directed into creativity, into writing, into creating thi… See more

After the success of Hair, Rado and Ragni went their separate ways for a period of time in the early 1970s.
While Ragni and Hair composer Galt MacDermot collaborated on Dude, Rado wrote a mu… See more

Following Ragni's death in 1991, Rado was active in developing new productions of Hair, including the 11 city 1994 national tour which he directed, and the 2006 CanStage production in Toronto.
Since 2011… See more

• The official Hair the musical website by James Rado
• James Rado at the Internet Broadway Database
• James Rado at the Internet Off-Broadway Database… See more