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	Rodgers and Hammerstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rodgers and Hammerstein were an American songwriting duo consisting of Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960).
		Rodgers had previously been in a successful partnership with Lorenz Hart; among their Broadway hits were the shows Babes in Arms, Pal Joey, and A Connecticut Yankee.
		Hammerstein, a co-writer of the popular Rudolf Friml operetta Rose-Marie, began a successful collaboration with composer Jerome Kern on Sunny, which was a great hit; their 1927 musical Show Boat is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre.
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	Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals for the beginner
		Rodgers and Hammerstein began their collaboration in 1943 with "Oklahoma!" "Oklahoma!" opened at the St. James theater in New York City and won them both a Pulitzer Prize.
		Rodgers and Kern were not on the best of terms, and Rodgers also stated later that working with Sondheim was "not my first impulse, even while at work with him." The most important part of a musical team is camaraderie and willingness to listen to each other.
		Rodgers and Hammerstein have a universal appeal, and rarely cease to delight.
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	Richard Rodgers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was one of the great composers of musical theater, best known for his song writing partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II.
		The Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals earned a total of 34 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards and two Emmy Awards.
		Rodgers' daughter, Mary, is the composer of Once Upon A Mattress and an author of children's books.
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	BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Rodgers and Hammerstein
		Rodgers and Hammerstein first met in 1916, when Hammerstein was writing variety shows at Columbia University.
		Thus Rodgers and Hammerstein came together for their first collaboration, which was on its pre-Broadway run before it was renamed Oklahoma (the exclamation mark came even later) instead of Away We Go!
		Hammerstein died in 1960, and Rodgers began to write lyrics as well as music, notably in Do I hear a Waltz (1965) and Rex (1976).
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	Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the early 1920's, Richard Rodgers, born in 1902, was a relatively well-known composer, working with such men as lyricist Lorenz Hart on witty musicals intended to make light of serious issues.
		Hammerstein also wrote Show Boat in 1927 with Jerome Kern, which proceeded to change musical theater for good.
		Rodgers and Hammerstein first got together to create the first musical in a currently deeply-explored genre, the musical play.
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	Encyclopedia: Rodgers and Hammerstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		South Pacific is a musical play, written with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II that opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949, and ran for more than five years.
		Hammerstein began his most successful and sustained collaboration in 1943 when he teamed up with Richard Rodgers, whose regular partner, Lorenz Hart, was uninterested in the material, to write a musical based on Lynn Riggs' play Green Grow the Lilacs.
		Hammerstein died shortly after the opening of The Sound of Music on Broadway, ending one of the most remarkable collaborations in the history of the American musical theatre.
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	Literature Film Quarterly: Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Chopsticks" musicals
		The forte of Rodgers and Hammerstein is, in fact, Broadway shows rather than movies, as Rodgers explains: "Publishing songs, producing plays and writing songs for moving pictures were profitable and challenging enterprises, but Oscar and I never thought of ourselves as anything but writers for the Broadway musical theatre" (Musical Stages 237).
		Rodgers and Hammerstein have conceptualized King Mongkut as a regal vaudevillian, rehabilitating Landon's "capricious and vengeful" King, who shifts between "the Oriental despot" and "the learned man of science" (47).
		The cosmetic surgery Rodgers and Hammerstein perform on King Mongkut for their comedy goes far beyond Brynner's taped eyelids; they expunge the most egregious episode from Landon as well as from its 1946 filmic predecessor.
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	Rodgers And Hammerstein
		Although not born into a theatrical family, Rodgers' earliest memories are of his parents singing the complete vocal scores from the latest musical comedies.
		Hammerstein was offered--he declined; he did not want to take Hart's place while there was the slightest spark of work left in him.
		Hammerstein said, "You find people who are primitive in their education and they're more likely, I think, to say what they mean.
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	American Masters . Richard Rodgers \| PBS
		The Rodgers & Hart partnership came to an end with the death of Lorenz Hart in 1943, at the age of 48.
		Earlier that year Rodgers had joined forces with lyricist and author Oscar Hammerstein II, whose work in the field of operetta throughout the '20s and '30s had been as innovative as Rodgers' own accomplishments in the field of musical comedy.
		In 1998 Rodgers & Hammerstein were cited by Time Magazine and CBS News as among the 20 most influential artists of the 20th century and in 1999 they were jointly commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp.
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	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Rodgers and Hammerstein
		Rodgers and Hammerstein also excelled in the business aspects of musical theater,; establishing a music publishing company and producing the shows of other composers in addition to their own.
		Rodgers had always been concerned with the integration of words and music,; both the careful setting of text to music and the significance of the songs to the plot and character development of the whole work.
		Rodgers continued to compose, writing some of his own lyrics, but nothing in his later life equaled the sustained flood of musical and dramatic brilliance that he and Hammerstein had created together.
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	The Broadway Musical Home-Rodgers and Hammerstein
		The first Rodgers and 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.
		Oscar Hammerstein II was born in 1895 and died in 1960.
		Richard Rodgers was born in 1902 and died in 1979.
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	Rodgers and Hammerstein's CINDERELLA
		Critiques of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA (1965 and 1997)
		Rodgers and Hammerstein created a musical that was enjoyable and timeless, but that was not really groundbreaking.
		Overall both versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical seem to exemplify the Cinderella story, and each are told with the magic and song that fill each work by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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	THS Theatre Tribute To Rodgers and Hammerstein
		In fact, two of Rodgers' shows are being produced on Broadway this year: "Oklahoma" and "The Boys From Syracuse", and television's PBS will be featuring Rodgers on their "American Masters Specials" this Season.
		Rodgers was born one hundred years ago in Long Island, New York to William and Mamie Rodgers.
		That spring Rodgers had already begun a new partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II in the block buster, "Oklahoma!", and Hart's health was quickly waning.
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	Rodgers & Hammerstein - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Rodgers, first teamed with Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), with whom he scored a series of Broadway successes that began when the team's song "Manhattan" was interpolated into The..
		Hammerstein, scion of a theatrical family (his grandfather owned several theaters and wrote shows and his father and brother were also involved in the theater), attended Columbia University, where he wrote college shows with Rodgers.
		Rodgers, who had the luck to work with two of the most gifted lyricists of the century, continued after Hammerstein's death, though without lucking into a third major partner.
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	Information about U.S. FDC: 33¢ Rodgers and Hammerstein: American Music Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Prior to his work with Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) collaborated with lyricist Lorenz Hart on a series of musical comedies that epitomized the wit and sophistication of Broadway in its heyday, from the '20s into the early '40s.
		Throughout the same era Oscar Hammerstein 11 (1895-1960) brought new life to a moribund art form: the operetta, collaborating with such pre-eminent composers as Rudolf Friml, Sigmund Romberg, Vincent Youmans and Jerome Kern (with whom he wrote the landmark Showboat).
		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.
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	Rodgers & Hammerstein
		Rodgers first teamed with Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), with whom he scored a series of Broadway successes that began when the team's song "Manhattan" was interpolated into The Garrick Gaities of 1925.
		He was a considerable success in the 1920s, collaborating with Jerome Kern on Show Boat (1927) and also working with Sigmund Romberg, but he went for a long stretch in the '30s without having a hit.
		he Rodgers and Hammerstein team returned to the plot-oriented, socially conscious style of Show Boat for a series of landmark musicals in the '40s and '50s, notably Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951) and The Sound of Music (1959), among others.
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	Lorenze Hart ADD, but not Hammerstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rodgers checked into a nearby hospital room, and he arranged for a piano to be moved into the room.
		Oscar Hammerstein II was the opposite of Lorenz Hart.
		Hammerstein's lyrics in the song "How do you solve a problem like Maria" (sung by the nuns) described Maria as flighty and impulsive, disappearing to enjoy nature in the mountains, making them laugh, and singing in the abby.
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	Free Essays on Rodgers And Hammerstein
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		Hammerstein, born in 1895, was brought up in a theatrical family.
		Hammerstein, Rodgers’ devotion to the theater began early on in his life.
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	Musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein
		Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) formed one of the most successful and creative teams in American musical theater history.
		Rodgers and Hart remained musical partners for over twenty years and wrote a number of successful musicals—even though Rodgers was a workaholic and Hart was an alcoholic.
		Hammerstein’s most famous musical besides those he wrote with Rodgers was Showboat, written with composer Jerome Kern in 1927.
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	Thurston High School Theater Tribute To Rodgers & Hammerstein
		Even a cliche you know has the right to be true." When their musical would finally reach the theater, Rodgers and Hammerstein were sure to maintain a professional union between all members of a production team.
		In 1998 Rodgers and Hammerstein were cited by Time Magazine and CBS News as among the 20 most influential artists of the 20th century, and in 1999 they were jointly commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp.
		Richard Rodgers died on December 30, 1979; and in March of 1990, Broadway's 46th Street Theater was renamed The Richard Rodgers Theater in his honor.
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	Rodgers and Hammerstein Show Pages
		Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II prepared their version of CINDERELLA in a scant eight month period.
		Joining Julie Andrews was a stellar cast that included Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney as the King and Queen; Ilka Chase as the Stepmother; Kaye Ballard and Alice Ghostley as the Stepsisters; Jon Cypher as The Prince; and Edith Adams as an atypically young and sensible Godmother.
		While Joseph Schrank was brought in to revise the teleplay, the score remained intact, with the addition of a solo for the Prince, "Loneliness of Evening" (a ballad originally written for, and cut from, SOUTH PACIFIC in 1949).
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	Amazon.co.uk: Rodgers And Hammerstein: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rodgers' partnership with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein was cemented by their 1945 cinematic joint effort State Fair, rushed into production by 20th Century Fox in response to MGM's all-conquering Meet Me in St Louis and with a similarly folksy theme.
		On the DVD: Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musicals glow as freshly as if they were made yesterday in four of these DVD transfers, with the other two a disappointment in comparison.
		I had been searching for the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals on DVD for a long time and when I purchased them from Amazon I was and am absolutely delighted.
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	TIME 100: Artist & Entertainers - Rodgers and Hammerstein
		In the ninth row orchestra, way over on the right side of the house (permitting a dash backstage in case of a crisis), sat the man responsible for this unconventional musicomedy opening scene.
		Oscar Hammerstein II, a bulky man with a friendly, rough-cast face, kept his bright blue eyes fixed on the stage.
		Oscar Hammerstein (rhymes with fine) is one of the highest-paid men in show business (one estimate places his yearly income at $500,000).
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