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Michael Butler Dies: Producer Of Broadway’s ‘Hair’ & Its Film Version Was 95
09.11.2022 - 00:05 / deadline.com
Michael Butler, the Tony-winning producer who brought Hair to Broadway in 1968 and later produced the film adaptation and many other productions of the show, died Monday in Santa Barbara. He was 95.
His attorney confirmed the news on behalf of Butler’s family but give not provide details.
As a producer, social figure and international bon vivant, Michael Butler was an international celebrity in the 1960s and ’70s. As his 1968 production of Hair became an international hit, with 12 productions around the world, his friendships grew among exotic global figures such as the Shah of Iran and the Mahajarah of Jaipur. As a host at his lavish polo grounds in the UK, Butler included British royalty among his regular polo-playing friends. He admitted that his polo spending consumed all of the $60 million profit from his stage play.
Subtitled “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” Hair, whichbegan life in 1967 at New York’s then-new Public Theater Off Broadway, was not only the first Broadway musical to prominently feature nudity, but was a hugely influential insertion of a ’60s counterculture sensibility into Broadway’s mainstream — it was banned in many cities and spurred many lawsuits. The musical contributed a number of songs that would become radio hits (often in cover versions) and stage musical standards: “Aquarius,” “Let the Sunshine In,” “Hair,” “Ain’t Got No/I Got Life,” “Good Morning Starshine,” “Easy to Be Hard,” among others.
Hair won the Best Musical Tony Award for Butler in 1969 — along with six other Tonys — and its cast album spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard 200, winning the Grammy for Best Cast Album, and spawned four smash singles. The disc later was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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