The greatest partnership in the history of the musical, captured in print, wonderfully illustrated. For this new edition, the book has been completely rewritten and substantially expanded to include material on Rodgers' early career with Lorenz Hart as well as his later work, and also features recollections from such theatrical titans as Sheldon Harnick, Martin Charnin, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents. Also, a completely new appendix reveals the details of the continuing worldwide phenomenon of Rodgers and Hammerstein's work up to and including the 2002 centennial year for Rodgers.
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Frederick Nolan is author of the acclaimed biography Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway
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A fascinating, charming double bio,
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Frederick Nolan tells the story of Rodgers and Hammerstein both as a team and as separate people. Indeed there is a good deal of space allotted to their careers BEFORE they ever worked together. But after they team up the narrative becomes more lively and a real page turner, at least partly because Nolan's style is graceful and charming in itself. He seems to have read everything written about them, even going so far as to watch TV kinescopes of them from the 1950s, and he talked to many people who knew them, worked with them.It's the backstage stories that make the book sing. Practically every page has a at least one fascinating anecdote. And he doesn't sugar-coat their personalities--Rodgers's curtness, even cruelty, and Hammerstein's insecurity, tendency to swallow his pride. It's hard to read the book without singing to yourself. My God, what songs these two wrote! But more than that, what dramatists they were; they broke convention again and again and mostly successfully. Pull out your recordings of Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific and start reading!
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On July 23, 1942, The New York Times ran a brief report to the effect that the Theatre Guild was planning to produce a musical adaptation of Lynn Riggs's 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs, with a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
show boat, cast album, allied rights Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Larry Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers, Mary Martin, Dick Rodgers, Joshua Logan, New Haven, Jerome Kern, Theatre Guild, Arthur Hammerstein, George Abbott, Helen Ford, Irving Berlin, The Sound of Music, Vivienne Segal, Herb Fields, Dorothy Rodgers, Gertrude Lawrence, Flower Drum Song, Lew Fields, Rouben Mamoulian, Annie Get Your Gun, Arthur Schwartz, Gene Kelly New!
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On July 23, 1942, The New York Times ran a brief report to the effect that the Theatre Guild was planning to produce a musical adaptation of Lynn Riggs's 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs, with a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
show boat, cast album, allied rights Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Larry Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers, Mary Martin, Dick Rodgers, Joshua Logan, New Haven, Jerome Kern, Theatre Guild, Arthur Hammerstein, George Abbott, Helen Ford, Irving Berlin, The Sound of Music, Vivienne Segal, Herb Fields, Dorothy Rodgers, Gertrude Lawrence, Flower Drum Song, Lew Fields, Rouben Mamoulian, Annie Get Your Gun, Arthur Schwartz, Gene Kelly New!
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- Show Boat (Vocal Selections) (Song Book) by Oscar Hammerstein II on 20 pages
- Pal Joey (Score) by Richard Rodgers on 10 pages
- The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee on 10 pages
- On Your Toes (Vocal Score Series) by Richard Rodgers on 8 pages
- Babes in Arms by Richard Rodgers on 7 pages
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- Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond by Rock Brynner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity by Raymond Knapp in Back Matter
- Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim by Thomas S. Hischak in Back Matter
- Richard Rodgers by Geoffrey Holden Block in Back Matter
- Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre: Expanded Edition by Foster Hirsch in Back Matter
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