Rodgers and Hammerstein Collaborations Oklahoma! The first collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein was entitled Oklahoma! The idea of the musical came from a play called Green Grow the Lilacs, written by Lynn Riggs in 1931. This story is about the state of Oklahoma at the turn of the century, when the Indian Territory joined the United States. It is the story of a girl named Laurey Williams and her (sort of) love triangle with two boys by the names of Curley McClain and Jud Fry. Laurey is in love
The Lives and Accomplishments of Rodgers & Hammerstein Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were both writers and producers in the theatre, but, their collaborative venture in the 1940’s introduced a new era of musical theatre. First, they wrote the first musical in which every element: music, lyrics, narrative, and even dance contributed to telling the story, each part blending and woven into the whole. Their new idea was a huge sensation with audiences, and brought with it, new recordings
Rodgers & Hammerstein 's Cinderella (1997) Movie Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella is a must see movie for everyone. It’s one of the best and first multi- ethnics cast modernizes classic fairytale of Cinderella. The old classic version only present with one ethnic group. However, this one is more diverse due to the variety of ethnicity, making the movie unique. It convey different plot that enhance and portray each character’ personality into musical movie with humor and ironic. The movie has
1959 Oscar Hammerstein wrote two hit musicals Carousel and The Sound Of Music In this independent project, I argue that despite their different time settings these two musicals explore social issues of the day, including women’s rights and transmuting roles in America’s culture, sometimes directly and sometime obliquely. Women’s activism and the development of feminism can be seen as a response to the previous years of domestic ideology and its contradictions. Within 14 years Hammerstein charted the
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella is a must see movie for everyone. It’s one of the best and first multi- ethnics cast modernizes classic fairytale of Cinderella. The old classic version only present with one ethnic group. However, this one is more diverse due to the variety of ethnicity, making the movie unique. It convey different plot that enhance and portray each character’ personality into musical movie with humor and ironic. The movie has a vibrant set, several entertaining musical sequence
The King and I: A Fight to Rule ROUGH DRAFT Rodger and Hammerstein’s The King and I has dazzled audiences for more than fifty years. With elaborate sets and engaging characters, the source of success appears to be evident. However, hidden within Hammerstein’s romantic script lies the true foundation; an eternal historical pattern. The King and I uses vibrant color to mask the chronicle of government intervention and westernization in not only Siam but in many countries. Anna Leonownes, King Mongkut
musicals is Rodgers and Hammerstein. Rodgers and Hammerstein have had many popular and relevant Broadway musicals that have been performed on different stages all around the world. Musicals such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King
A good storyteller never tells the ending of a story without exposition or a climax. A good comedian never tells the punchline of the joke without the setup. Therefore, one can expect Rodgers and Hammerstein, two extraordinary partners, playwrights, and composers, would not simply state their opinions outright in their musicals, but instead impress their thoughts in little ways in a variety of their musicals. During this unsettling time of the American 1940s and 50s, people were confused. Life changing
July 12, 1985, Oscar Hammerstein II was born into a show business family. Residing in New York New York, his father and uncle, Willie and Arthur Hammerstein, were successful theater managers, and his grandfather, Oscar Hammerstein I, was a famous opera impresario. His father was not supportive of his son’s desire to participate in the arts, even though it was the business most of his family was involved in. Because of his father’s decision, Oscar he was a great man Hammerstein studied at Columbia
musical theatre, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, had one idea in common. They wanted to present to the American public a new and revolutionary musical that would stand out above the rest. They wanted to make an impact on the societies of the era. They wanted to be creative and do something that was considered rebellious. When they finally combined their ideas together they created an American masterpiece in musical theatre: Oklahoma!. It was the first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, starting
relevant and coming out with new flashy techniques such as Todd-AO and Cinerama. The partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein was made possible by Richard Rodgers’ partner, Hart, becoming increasingly difficult to get back to work. Rodgers wished to adapt the play Green Grow the Lilacs into a musical, but Hart wasn’t interested in the show. So, Rodgers took Oscar Hammerstein up on his offer to collaborate on a project. That project turned out to be the successful musical Oklahoma! Oklahoma
Hammerstein & Lerner: Wordsmiths of All Time For many years, American musical theatre was defined as being mere entertainment for the people. It ranged from operetta, burlesque, vaudeville, and more. If there is one towering figure in the history of American Musical Theater, that person is Oscar Hammerstein II. He was a lyricist-librettist, as well as a distinguished poet and director. For over forty years, as the theatre’s forms of entertainment shifted, he helped merge everything into the art form
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had been based off of a book by James Michener called Tales of the South Pacific, so I picked it up and decided to skim through it and see the stories behind the musical. Pursuing the internet a little bit more I found the story behind how Rodgers and Hammerstein came to know Tales of the South Pacific. Based off of this and the background from reading the novel I wrote a background paragraph with this information and included the production history. While I found a decent amount on the history, I
enlisted the help of producers Leland Hayward and Richard Halliday (Martin’s husband). Ironically, they originally planned to create the show as a straight play with the exception of some Von-Trapp songs, and a couple of original numbers by Rodgers and Hammerstein. They quickly realized however, that to not musicalize the whole show would be next to impossible; thus sparking the creation of a full-fledged musical. While the show is based on... , their true story is far from the classic show known and
Israel Isidore Baline was born in the Russian village of Tyumen on May 11th, 1888. His family left in the mid 1890s to escape the persecution of the Jewish community and settled in New York City (biography.com). Israel dropped out of school at age thirteen (Kenrick 143). Baline was a street singer as a teen and in 1906 he got a job as a singing waiter in Chinatown (biography.com). The first song he ever had published was called “Marie From Sunny Italy” (biography.com). He wrote it in 1907 with Nick
starting to create expectations on how much power a women or men can possess. Stereotypes even go deeper than the power an individual is able to obtain. After reading the Brothers Grimm version of “Cinderella,” and watching the film version by Rodgers and Hammerstein, I saw many significant differences and similarities between the two. The similarities and differences I will touch on are diversity, gender issues, characteristics, interpretation, and exaggeration. The list can go on and on, but the bigger
The first piece is “My Favorite Things” from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music, vocals by Julie Andrews The genre of this piece is musicals. The medium for this is vocals, sung by Julie Andrews with an orchestra accompaniment as strings, woodwinds, piano, and brass can be heard throughout the piece. This song is a secular polyphonic piece that is tonal and based on a minor scale. The piece I felt was consonant and definitely had a melody line. This piece of music had a lot
Growing up as a little black girl, I rarely found dolls or princesses that looked like me. It was until I ran across the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s version of Cinderella movie starring the African American pop star Brandy as Cinderella. The made-for-television film was a remake of the Julie Andrews R&H Cinderella. But even the Julie Andrews version was based off the ancient folk tale. Although the movies are very similar, both films have a very unique touch to them. Cinderella happens to be
From the late 1800’s up through the present date, musical theater has changed. Though customs and love for the theater will always be carried on, origins, trends, and styles will change throughout time. “The American musical was born long before European operetta crossed the Atlantic. In The American Musical Stage Before 1800. Julian Mates tells us that “America’s early theatres were essentially lyric theatres…In America, no earlier dramatic forms existed, and the musical stage became our only tradition