Before Julie Andrews enchanted the world as Mary Poppins or twirled through the Austrian hills in The Sound of Music, she had ...
opened, not a single hit show ran over 500 performances; “Oklahoma!” ran for 2,212. Even the songs, which Rodgers and Hammerstein worked so hard to keep within the context of the setting ...
Still the most influential and popular songwriting team in the history of the American Musical Theatre, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ... before in such beloved shows as Carousel, South ...
When Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein arrived in Boston in March 1945, they were worried. Just days earlier, the songwriting duo had made a slew of ruthless cuts to their latest project ...
One half of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Richard composed the score for the Broadway show of The Sound of Music, a show which was eventually adapted for the screen by Ernest Lehman in 1965.