Dude (musical)

Dude
Original Broadway Playbill
Music	Galt MacDermot
Lyrics	Gerome Ragni
Book	Gerome Ragni
Productions	1972 Broadway

Dude (The Highway Life) is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. It is an allegory about good and evil, the conflict between mankind's creative and destructive urges, the power of love, and the joy to be found in simple pleasures. Dude is an everyman who loses his innocence and fights to regain it.