728 stories from The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization
With fewer than 200 shopping days until Christmas, producers and teachers, churches, community centers and dinner theatres are planning their holiday productions...
Broadway's newest production of THE KING AND I began in Australia more than five years ago..
In early spring, more than 250 key players in the music publishing and licensing industries worldwide gathered in Memphis, home of Graceland and Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), for a three-…
Now, in Columbia Artists Management's U.S. national touring company of the award-winning RNT production, CAROUSEL is twirling its way across the United States...
Irving Berlin had two musicals playing in New York at the same time this spring when a revival of THE COCOANUTS at American Jewish Theatre extended its run...
"It's wonderful," declared Williamson Music President Maxyne Berman Lang recently. "Our songwriters are prolific, and our output of songbooks is commensurate with that..."
Life upon the wicked stage, as captured in hundreds of show posters, photographs, design sketches, caricatures, set models and costumes, will be the subject of RED, HOT & BLUE! A SALUTE TO T…
Fans of the most popular movie musical ever made, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, have only until the end of this year to buy it on home video before it is taken off sale...
Less than a month after the concert performances at Weill Recital Hall, LOUISIANA PURCHASE musical director Rob Fisher and his talented cast regrouped in a Manhattan recording studio to make…
The original production of LOUISIANA PURCHASE opened on Broadway 56 years ago...
Even though Irving Berlin's century - plus life's work included the scores to 17 Broadway shows, only five of his musicals have been available for production - until now...
Since the songs from OKLAHOMA! provided more hits than any previous musical, the capturing of so many three minute gems in one set of four discs was exciting indeed...
In 1979, while taping a concert for a PBS special, jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan panicked.
For anyone interested in producing a musical, a recording can be an invaluable tool.
It can be a dilemma when the staff at The R&H Concert Library is asked to recommend a recording of an orchestral work they represent.
When ""Alexander's Ragtime Band,"" Irving Berlin's first hit song, swept the nation in 1911, Victrolas were new-fangled contraptions.
fter 36 years - and many sleepless nights - Princess Winnifred has returned to Broadway in her musical tale ONCE UPON A MATTRESS . . .
Topping the UK charts for much of the winter was Robson & Jerome's techno-retro take on ""You'll Never Walk Alone"" . . .
Rodgers & Hammerstein Flourish in the Pop Singer's World.
In 1949, basso profundo Ezio Pinza shifted his working address from the old Metropolitan Opera House on 39th Street to the Majestic Theatre on 44th Street.
From now on, I think it only fair to regard Faith Prince as a queen - certainly a queen of Broadway,""
Floyd Collins was a real-life farmer in the Kentucky hills and an avid cave explorer who, in the winter of 1925, entered a cave that he hoped to turn into a tourist-driven goldmine, and inst…
IT'S POSSIBLE: Finally going before the cameras this summer for broadcast on ABC-TV later this year is the long-awaited remake of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella...
Though its Broadway run last season was overshadowed by Tony Award controversies and the cutting-edge sensibilities of Rent and Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk, the past year has indisp…
Last winter, as Once Upon a Mattress was readied for a Broadway revival, journalist Kathy Henderson sat down with the musical's authors to discuss the musical's origins.
