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| x Paul Jabara |
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Paul Jabara (January 31, 1948 – September 29, 1992) was an American actor, singer, and songwriter of Lebanese ancestry. He wrote Donna Summer's "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday (1978) and Barbra Streisand's song "The Main Event/Fight" from...
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| x Ashley Brown |
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Ashley Brown (born February 3, 1982) is an actress who is best known for playing the title character in the United States national tour and Broadway productions of Mary Poppins.
Brown initially caught the attention of casting director Tara Rubin not...
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| x William Gaxton |
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William Gaxton (December 2, 1893 - February 2, 1963) was a star of vaudeville, film, and theatre.
Born as Arturo Antonio Gaxiola in San Francisco, he appeared on film and onstage. He debuted on Broadway in the Music Box Revue on October 23, 1922. He...
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| x Marissa Jaret Winokur |
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Marissa Jaret Winokur (born February 2, 1973), sometimes credited as Marissa Winokur, is an American actress known for her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters' film Hairspray, as well as...
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| x Robert Morse |
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Robert Morse (born May 18, 1931) is an American actor and singer. Morse is best known for his appearances in musicals and plays on Broadway. He has also acted in movies and television shows. His best known role is that of J. Pierrepont Finch in the...
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The Wizard | Wicked | |
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John Arthur Lithgow ( /ˈlɪθɡoʊ/ LITH-goh; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor, musician, and author. Presently, he is involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio. He also has written and...
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| x Zero Mostel |
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Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was an American actor of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus on stage and on screen in A Funny...
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Tevye | Fiddler on the Roof | |
| x Harvey Fierstein |
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Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1952) is an American actor and playwright, noted for the distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer...
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| x Brandon Maggart |
Brandon Maggart (born 12 December 1933) is an American actor.
Maggart was born Roscoe Maggart, Jr. in Carthage, Tennessee. His acting career began in the early 1950s, at first in local and regional theatre in Tennessee, which eventually branched out...
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| x Steve Barton |
Steve Barton (June 26, 1954 – July 21, 2001) was an American actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, stage director and teacher.
Steven Neal Barton was born on June 26, 1954, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States, the youngest of three children of...
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Graf von Krolock | Dance of the Vampires | Oct 4, 1997 | |
| x David Shiner |
David Shiner (born September 13, 1953) is an American actor, clown, playwright and theater director.
Shiner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Francis Shiner, a computer programmer, and a homemaker mother. The lanky Shiner, usually...
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| x Dorothy Loudon |
Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1925 – November 15, 2003) was an American comedy actress and singer. She won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a...
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| x Donna McKechnie |
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Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1940) is an American musical theater dancer, singer, actress, and choreographer. She is known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she collaborated on her...
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| x Shelley Plimpton |
Shelley Plimpton (born February 27, 1947) is an American former actress and Broadway performer.
Plimpton was born in Roseburg, Oregon, to a father who ran an auto parts store. She is a "very distant" cousin of writer George Plimpton. She moved to...
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| x Marilu Henner |
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Mary Lucy Denise "Marilu" Henner (born April 6, 1952) is an American actress, producer and author. She is best known for her role as Elaine O'Connor Nardo on the sitcom Taxi from 1978 to 1983.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Greek mother and Polish...
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Lee | The Tale of the Allergist's Wife | |
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| Donna | Over Here! | Mar 6, 1974 | |||
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| x Raúl Esparza |
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Raúl Eduardo Esparza (born October 24, 1970) is an American stage actor, singer, and voice artist noted for his award winning performances in Broadway shows. He has received Tony nominations for his role as a vibrant and flamboyant Philip Salon in...
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| x Bonnie Franklin |
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Bonnie Gail Franklin (born January 6, 1944) is an American actress, best known for her starring role in the television series One Day at a Time.
Franklin was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Claire (née Hersch) and Samuel Benjamin...
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| x Bob Martin |
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Bob Martin is a writer, actor, and comedian from Toronto, Ontario, Canada born in England circa 1963. He has both performed in and written many TV shows. He also provides the voice of Cuddles the comfort doll on the Canadian TV show Puppets Who Kill...
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| x Samuel E. Wright |
Samuel E. Wright (born November 20, 1946) is an American film and theater actor and singer who is best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, for which he provided the main vocals to "Under the Sea", which won the Academy...
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| x Chuck Cissel |
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Charles "Chuck" Cissel (born October 3, 1948) is an American singer, dancer, director, choreographer and producer. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the...
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| x Beatrice Lillie |
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Beatrice Gladys "Bea" Lillie (May 29, 1894 – January 20, 1989) was an actress and comedic performer. Following her 1920 marriage to Sir Robert Peel in England, she was known in private life as Lady Peel.
Lillie was born in Toronto, where she...
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| x Janis Paige |
Janis Paige (born September 16, 1922) is an American film, musical theatre and television actress.
Born Donna Mae Tjaden in Tacoma, Washington, she began singing in public at age five in local amateur shows. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating...
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| x Sarah Brightman |
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Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She is famous for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves. She sings in many languages which are English, Spanish, French, Latin,...
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| x Georgia Engel |
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Georgia Bright Engel (born July 28, 1948) is an American film, television, and stage actress who is best known for her roles as Georgette Franklin on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Pat MacDougall on Everybody Loves Raymond.
Engel was born in...
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| x Nell Carter |
Nell Carter (September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American singer, and film, stage, and television actress. She won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin', as well as an Emmy Award for her reprisal of the...
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Suzie Moon | Dude | ||
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Terrence Vaughan Mann (born July 1, 1951) is an American actor, director, singer, songwriter and dancer who has been prominent on the Broadway stage for the past three decades. He is a distinguished professor in musical theater at Western Carolina...
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| x Joel Grey |
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Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932) is an American stage and screen actor, singer, and dancer, known for his role as the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won the Academy Award, Tony...
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| Amos Hart | Chicago | Nov 14, 1996 | |||
| x Ethel Merman |
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Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her powerful voice and roles in musical theatre, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." Among the many...
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| x Victor Moore |
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Victor Frederick Moore (February 24, 1876 – July 23, 1962) was an American actor of stage and screen, as well as a comedian, writer, and director.
He was married twice – first to actress Emma Littlefield from 1902 until her death on June 25, 1934,...
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| x Michael Crawford |
Michael Crawford OBE (born 19 January 1942) is an English actor and singer. He has garnered great critical acclaim and won numerous awards during his career, which covers radio, television, film, and stagework on both London's West End and on...
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Graf von Krolock | Dance of the Vampires | ||
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| x Janie Sell |
Jane Ann "Janie" Sell (born October 1, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress.
Sell won the Tony as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Over Here!, which also starred the then-surviving Andrews Sisters, Maxene and Patty. She also...
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| x John McMartin |
John McMartin (born November 18, 1929) is an American actor of stage, film and television.
McMartin was born in Warsaw, Indiana and raised in Minnesota. He attended college in Illinois and New York. He made his off-Broadway debut in Little Mary...
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| x Rick Lyon |
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Rick Lyon is a puppeteer, actor, and puppet designer and builder originally from Rochester, New York, who has worked for the Jim Henson Company as one of the operators of Big Bird. He appeared on Broadway originating the roles of Trekkie Monster,...
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| x Leslie Uggams |
Leslie Uggams (born May 25, 1943, New York City) is an American actress and singer, perhaps best known for her work in Hallelujah, Baby! and the miniseries Roots. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
Uggams was born in New York City. Her...
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| x Penny Fuller |
Penny Fuller (born July 21, 1940) is an American actress.
Born in Durham, North Carolina, Fuller attended Northwestern University in Illinois. She then went to New York City to make a name for herself on Broadway. Debuting in The Moon Besieged (1962...
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| x Mandy Patinkin |
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Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin ( /pəˈtɪŋkɨn/; born November 30, 1952) is an award-winning American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist. He is a noted interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim, and is best known for his work in...
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| x Tammy Grimes |
Tammy Lee Grimes (born January 30, 1934) is an American actress and singer.
Grimes was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Eola Willard (née Niles), a naturalist and spiritualist, and Nicholas Luther Grimes, an innkeeper, country-club...
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| x Sally Ann Howes |
Sally Ann Howes (born 20 July 1930) is a British actress and singer, who currently holds dual British-American citizenship. Her career on stage, screen and television has spanned over six decades. She is best remembered for the role of Truly...
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| x Susan Egan |
Susan Egan (born February 18, 1970) is an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage.
Egan was born in Seal Beach, California. Always wanting to be a performer, she spent most of her time taking dancing and singing lessons...
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| x Beatrice Arthur |
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Beatrice "Bea" Arthur (May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedienne and singer whose career spanned seven decades. Arthur achieved fame as the character Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family and Maude, and as...
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| x Jack Cassidy |
John Joseph Edward “Jack” Cassidy (March 5, 1927 – December 12, 1976) was an American actor of stage, film, and television.
His frequent professional persona was that of an urbane, super-confident egotist with a dramatic flair, much in the manner of...
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| x Charles Nelson Reilly |
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Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in theater, movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match...
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| x Heather Headley |
Heather Headley (born October 5, 1974) is a Trinidadian-American R&B; and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress And Cordell Francis Made A Song Produced By Her Call Fare And Square. She has won one Tony Award and one Grammy Award....
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| x Lauren Bacall |
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Lauren Bacall ( /ˌlɔrən bəˈkɔːl/; born Betty Joan Perske, September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.
She first emerged as leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To...
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| x Norbert Leo Butz |
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Norbert Leo Butz (born January 30, 1967) is an American actor best known for his work in Broadway theatre.
Butz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Elaine and Norbert Butz. He was raised in a "very middle class Catholic family." He is the...
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Fiyero | Wicked | |
| x Robert Hooks |
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Robert Hooks (born Bobby Dean Hooks, April 18, 1937) is an American actor of films, television and stage. With a career as a producer and political activist to his credit, he is most recognizable to the public for his over 100 roles in films and...
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| x Armelia McQueen |
Armelia McQueen (born January 6, 1952) is an American actress who has played roles in both film and television.
A native of North Carolina, McQueen was raised in Brooklyn, New York where she performed in church plays. She attended P.S. 44 and P.S....
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| x Gene Nelson |
Gene Nelson (March 24, 1920 – September 16, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, screenwriter, and director.
Born Leander Eugene Berg in Astoria, Oregon, he moved to Seattle when he was one year old. He was inspired to become a dancer by watching...
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| x Kelly Bishop |
Carole "Kelly" Bishop (born February 28, 1944) is an American actress and dancer, best known for her roles as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series Gilmore Girls, and as the mother of Jennifer Grey's character in the film Dirty Dancing. Bishop...
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| x Sherie Rene Scott |
Sherie Rene Scott (born February 8, 1967) is an American actress, singer and writer. She is a co-founder of Grammy winning Sh-K-Boom Records and Ghostlight Records and has performed in numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway musicals and plays, and...
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| x Kristin Chenoweth |
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Kristin Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American singer and actress, with credits in musical theatre, film and television. She is best known on Broadway for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999), for which...
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Glinda | Wicked | Oct 30, 2003 |
| x Edward Woodward |
Edward Albert Arthur Woodward, OBE (1 June 1930 – 16 November 2009) was an English stage and screen actor and singer. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Woodward began his career on stage, and throughout his career he...
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| x Alexis Smith |
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Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was a Canadian-born stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in several major Hollywood movies in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972.
Born...
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| x Terry Carter |
Terry Carter (born December 16, 1928) is an American actor and filmmaker who is known for his roles as "Sgt. Joe Broadhurst", on the seven year hit TV series McCloud and as "Colonel Tigh" on the original Battlestar Galactica.
Carter was born in...
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| x Melba Moore |
Beatrice Melba Smith (born October 29, 1945), known by her stage name, Melba Moore is an American disco, R&B; singer and actress. She is the daughter of saxophonist Teddy Hill and R&B; singer Bonnie Davis.
Melba Moore was born in 1945 in New York...
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| x Rudy Vallée |
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Rudy Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.
Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée. Both of his parents were...
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| x Joanna Gleason |
Joanna Gleason (née Hall; born June 2, 1950) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is a Tony Award-winning musical theatre actress and has also had a number of notable film and TV roles.
Gleason was born in Toronto, Ontario as the daughter of...
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Trudy Heyman | Social Security | Apr 17, 1986 | |
| x Luther Henderson |
Luther Henderson (March 14, 1919 – July 29, 2003) was an African American arranger, composer, orchestrator, and pianist.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he was educated at the Juilliard School of Music where he received a B.S. in 1942. Among the more...
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| x Treat Williams |
Richard Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is a Screen Actors Guild Award–nominated American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television. From 2002 to 2006, he was the star of the television series Everwood....
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| x Gerome Ragni |
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Gerome Bernard Ragni (September 11, 1935 – July 10, 1991) was an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known as the co-author of the groundbreaking 1960s Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.
Ragni was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,...
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