James Rado

“Hair was in the air.”

“Let the sunshine in. That was our message.”

“The Vietnam War was the backdrop for everything. The show was an anti-war statement.”

“We were just two guys from New York who had an idea.”

“We thought, 'This is the time. It's happening in the streets.' We wanted to bring this to the stage. We called it a tribal love-rock musical.”

“The show is a celebration of life.”

“We were trying to reflect the times we were living in.”

“Nudity was part of the protest, part of the freedom.”

“The tribe was the central idea. A group of people coming together, living together, loving together.”

“We wanted to create a new form of theater.”

“The purpose of Hair was to make people think, to feel, and to question.”

“The music had to be rock 'n' roll. It was the language of the young people.”

“It was a time of great ferment, a time of great excitement, a time of revolution.”

“Gerome Ragni and I were actors, but we were also writers. We were obsessed with what was happening in the world.”