Photo Flashback: BroadwayWorld Remembers HAIR Composer Galt MacDermot

By: Dec. 20, 2018
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As previously reported, Galt MacDermot, composer of the musical Hair, has passed away on December 17 at 89 years old.

MacDermot's film soundtracks include Cotton Comes to Harlem, a 1970 blaxploitation film starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques and Redd Foxx, based on Chester Himes' novel of the same name; Rhinoceros (1974) starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and directed by original Broadway Hair director Tom O'Horgan; and Mistress (1992).

Read his full obituary here.

Today, BroadwayWorld remembers MacDermot with a look back in our archives. Check out the photos below.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

Photo Flashback: BroadwayWorld Remembers HAIR Composer Galt MacDermot
Galt MacDermot arriving for the Opening Night Performance of HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City. March 31, 2009

Photo Flashback: BroadwayWorld Remembers HAIR Composer Galt MacDermot
James Rado & Galt MacDermot arriving for the Opening Night Performance of HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City. March 31, 2009

Photo Flashback: BroadwayWorld Remembers HAIR Composer Galt MacDermot
James Rado & Diane Paulus & Galt MacDermot arriving for the Opening Night Performance of HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City. March 31, 2009

Photo Flashback: BroadwayWorld Remembers HAIR Composer Galt MacDermot
Galt MacDermot arriving for the Opening Night Performance of HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City. March 31, 2009

Photo Flashback: BroadwayWorld Remembers HAIR Composer Galt MacDermot
James Rado & Galt MacDermot arriving for the Opening Night Performance of HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City. March 31, 2009

Photo Flashback: BroadwayWorld Remembers HAIR Composer Galt MacDermot
Galt MacDermot arriving for the Opening Night Performance of HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City. March 31, 2009

Photo Flashback: BroadwayWorld Remembers HAIR Composer Galt MacDermot
James Rado & Galt MacDermot arriving for the Opening Night Performance of HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City. March 31, 2009

Photo Flashback: BroadwayWorld Remembers HAIR Composer Galt MacDermot
featured cast members Megan Lawrence, Darius Nichols, Kacie Sheik, Sasha Allen, Gavin Creel, Will Swenson, Caissie Levy & Bryce Ryness with James Rado, Diane Paulus & Galt MacDermot during the Opening Night Performance Curtain Call for HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City. March 31, 2009



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