ABSTRACT
No single team or individual would dominate Broadway during the decade of the 1960s, but several new names began to appear on theatre marquees, and numerous experiments were conducted. There were even individual composers who, arguably, reinvented themselves during this era. Cy Coleman's jazz background was evident in Sweet Charity, written with Dorothy Fields. Following Coleman's model, Jerry Herman maintained a "sine-wave" career, with some enormous successes intermingled with dismal failures. Some success with small revues encouraged Herman to turn his hand to a full-length show, Milk and Hone, set in contemporary Israel. Like Jerry Herman, composer Charles Strouse began his Broadway career with a strong showing. Another composer whose career started with a bang is Galt Mac Dermot (b. 1928), who was asked by New York actors Gerome Ragni and James Rado to write the score for their brainchild, Hair.
