"They really build up a relationship with the actors and with each other, " Ms. Hammerstein observed.
One Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein chestnut, "The Folks Who Live on the Hill, " stumped the band.
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The PlayStation event begins with light and video show at the storied Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown Manhattan.
The PlayStation event begins with a light and video show at the storied Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown Manhattan.
Stage musicals should deal with difficult issues, just as classics like Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific did, Weinstein believes.
Why Mr. Beane's services were deemed necessary is less than obvious, since Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the original book himself.
The original production of South Pacific - composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II - won nine Tonys in 1950.
But Hammerstein's version, which is just the right length for children, has since been performed onstage many times with only minor modifications.
Rodgers and Hammerstein immediately announced plans to bring the show to Broadway.
In 1945, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opened on Broadway.
When it comes to transformations, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the book.
He believes Hart was sloppy, Hammerstein soppy (too many easy metaphors like birds, dreams, flying), Coward condescending, Gershwin too striving and Lerner too limited in his palette.
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There was an informal London stage adaptation, but the next major incarnation was shot on videotape five years after Hammerstein's death in 1960 (Rodgers died in 1979).
The event is at the Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown Manhattan.
He is similarly neglectful of the way in which such shows, when artfully blended, helped to produce the admirable works of Rodgers and Hammerstein in the 1940s and 1950s.
Certainly, putting the orchestra on stage for a rock or jukebox musical is in keeping with the show's sensibility, which tends to be more Hammerstein Ballroom than Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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In addition, and more influentially, the monarch employed a western nanny for his children, whose story later became the inspiration for the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, The King and I.
When it was first performed in 1957, it was instantly seen by 107 million TV viewers, an audience larger than that of all the previous Rodgers and Hammerstein collaborations put together.
"Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories, " he says.
And McPartland joins in for a duet in "Softly As in a Morning Sunrise, " originally composed as a tango by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein for the 1928 operetta The New Moon.
It was, and the crowd at the Hammerstein Ballroom roared as Lee Ving of Fear, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Brad Wilk of Rage Against the Machine and others took the stage.
As a 90-minute TV special, "Cinderella" was roughly two-thirds as long as the usual Rodgers and Hammerstein show, and accordingly took them seven months to write instead of the usual nine or 10.
Bartlett Sher, who oversaw the show, thanked Rodgers, and Hammerstein, along with original director Joshua Logan and James Michener, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tales of the South Pacific, the collection of short stories which inspired the production.
Loos ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes") wrote "Happy Birthday" as a starring vehicle for her friend, Helen Hayes, and Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein produced it on Broadway in 1946, where it ran for nearly a year and a half.
When my future wife and I met on a river boat on the Hudson in 1962, we sang our way through half the major musicals of the 40s and 50s, including almost the complete catalog of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Ms. Hammerstein, who has been involved with the Rusk Institute as a volunteer for a couple of decades and also worked with children with AIDS through the Gay Men's Health Crisis, said she used to take the children to see Broadway shows.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific picked up four Outer Critics Circle awards - outstanding revival of a musical, outstanding director of a musical for Bartlett Sher, outstanding actor in a musical for Paulo Szot and outstanding featured actor in a musical for Danny Burstein.
Ms. Hammerstein, whose acting career included appearances in the BBC TV adaptation of "The Forsyte Saga, " and who worked with '60s star directors Ken Loach and Ken Russell, said that in some ways performing in front of children can be more exciting than doing so for adults.
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