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Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein (right) watching auditions at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in 1948. Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals.
Jul 24, 2018 · Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were a successful musical theatre writing duo in the 1940s and 50s. Their Broadway shows brought in a whopping 34 Tony Awards! The duo met at college, but wouldn’t start working together for another couple of decades.
- Carousel (1945) The echoing cries of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ sung in Carousel have been heard in theatres worldwide for over 70 years. Carousel tells of the love story between carnival worker Billy Bigelow and a local millworker named Julie Jordan, with audiences having all the fun of the fair at this musical without being spun round in circles.
- Allegro (1947) Allegro hasn’t been seen in the West End before, but it made history for the writer-composer duo as a large cast resembled a traditional Greek chorus on stage.
- South Pacific (1949) Based on James A. Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific, the musical earned the pair their first Pulitzer Prize for Drama. As an American nurse finds herself stationed on a South Pacific island during World War II, issues of race and relationships are called into question.
- Me and Juliet (1953) Following the backstage romance of a chorus girl and a stage manager, Me and Juliet played 358 performances on Broadway and ran for six weeks in Chicago.
Apr 21, 2023 · Oklahoma! — the first professional Rodgers and Hammerstein musical — is based on a play called Green Grow the Lilacs. Set on the Western frontier in the early 1900s, the story follows the loves and tragedies of a group of cowboys and farmers.
State Fair, the first Rodgers & Hammerstein show created exclusively for film, premiered at the Roxy Theater in New York City. A musical adaptation of 20 th Century Fox’s 1933 comedy of the...
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Mar 14, 2023 · Rodgers and Hammerstein are known for ushering in the Golden Age of musical theater, starting with their first collaboration on Oklahoma! and continuing with Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, among others.
OKLAHOMA!, the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, was also the first of a new genre, the musical play, representing a unique fusion of Rodgers' musical comedy and Hammerstein's operetta.
