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Aug 23, 2024 · My Favorite Things, the 2023 London concert celebrating the 80th anniversary of the collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, airs on PBS’ Great Performances May 31 (check local listings). The TV broadcast features a condensed version of the filmed concert, which was shown in full in U.K. movie theatres and as an on-demand stream in North America earlier this year.
Sep 5, 2024 · Clines further commented: "In part, the show is a tribute to musical stage history, in which the 57-year-old Mr Sondheim is steeped, for he first learned song writing at the knee of Oscar Hammerstein II and became the acknowledged master songwriter who bridged past musical stage romance into the modern musical era of irony and neurosis.
3 days ago · Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella was the third screen version of the musical. [5] [6] Songwriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II originally wrote Cinderella as a musical exclusively for television starring Julie Andrews, [7] which aired in 1957 to 107 million viewers. [8]
4 days ago · The Black Crook was a hit musical on Broadway in 1866. [1]Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole.
4 days ago · The grueling tours Berlin did performing "This Is The Army" left him exhausted, but when his longtime close friend Jerome Kern, who was the composer for Annie Get Your Gun, died suddenly, producers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II persuaded Berlin to take over composing the score.
4 days ago · Williams turned to the popular duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for his second Cadence LP, which included songs from their Broadway musicals Carousel, The King and I, Oklahoma!, and South Pacific. [30]
2 days ago · West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood.
