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The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker.The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay ...
12 de jul. de 2018 · Happy 123th Birthday, Oscar Hammerstein II!Learn more about Rodgers & Hammerstein: https://www.rnh.comConnect with RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN on social: https://w...
24 de jul. de 2018 · Oklahoma! Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics/Book: Oscar Hammerstein II Musical Type: Golden Age (1943) Oklahoma! was the first private collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein as a duo.(To see the actual first collaborations between R&H, scroll down to the “lesser-known musicals” below!) The show was a huge hit on Broadway, running for over 2000 performances!
Oscar Hammerstein II. Prolific US-American songwriter who teamed up with different composers from 1923 to 1943; from 1943 until his death in 1960 he formed a duo with Richard Rodgers. Hammerstein was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Born July 12, 1895 in New York, NY; died August 23, 1960 in Doylestown, PA.
A Cockeyed Optimist: Oscar Hammerstein Was No Stephen Sondheim. Laurie Winer’s new book, “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical,” takes the measure of Sondheim’s mentor and ...
8 de feb. de 2023 · Oscar Hammerstein II was born in New York into a buoyant theatrical family. His grandfather Oscar Hammerstein I was a boom-and-bust, opera-mad impresario, a builder of extravagant concert halls in ...
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.Their musical theater writing partnership has been called the ...
