Salome Bey. 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 and starred Ragni and Rado as the bogus cops who bust the show. In the 1970s Ragni, Rado, MacDermot, and Margoshes collaborated on a new musical called Sun, also called YMCA, which ultimately was not produced. It was a 60-song, three-hour musical about "evolution, with an Odyssey plot"; an environmental musical about politics, pollution and the rain forests being cut down among other topics. Sun had been in development since the mid-1970s and an early version was staged for backers in 1976, directed by John Vaccaro of Theatre of the Ridiculous fame, with appearances by Ruby Lynn Reyner, Annie-Joe Edwards and Ellen Foley. Rado told New York Magazine that "YMCA will do to the seventies what Hair did to the sixties," but the 1976 version never made it past rehearsals. A three-disc cast recording was made after a performance at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall by independent company Rado Records. 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. Death Ragni died of cancer in New York, age 55. At the time of his death he and Rado were working on a sequel to Hair. He is interred in the Holy Souls Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. Personal life On May 18, 1963, Ragni married his longtime girlfriend Stephanie Williams. They have a son named Erick. In a 2008 interview with The Advocate, Rado said that he and Ragni had been lovers, and described himself as omnisexual. References External links Collection of articles on Gerome Ragni Gerome Ragni papers, 1952-1984, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dude Articles Index. Male actors from Pittsburgh Songwriters from Pennsylvania Bisexual men Grammy Award winners LGBT people from Pennsylvania Musicians from Pittsburgh Catholic University of America alumni American people of Italian descent 1935 births 1991 deaths 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American musicians 20th-century LGBT people American bisexual writers