728 stories from The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization
When I began working here at R&H, my first assignment was to oversee the re-working of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
Finally this season, for the first time, Once Upon a Mattress returned to Broadway starring Sarah Jessica Parker and presented by Dodger Endemol Productions.
he legendary Shubert Theatre, New Haven, hosted the world premieres of nearly every Rodgers & Hammerstein musical from AWAY WE GO! (a.k.a. OKLAHOMA!) in 1943 to THE SOUND OF MUSIC in 1959...
March 31, 1957, 107 million people tuned in when CBS-TV presented a new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written especially for television, starring a young Broadway sensation named Julie And…
Now under construction is a new website devoted to the writers, musicals and compositions represented by The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, Williamson Music and The Irving Berlin Music …
In early May, Rodgers & Hart's madcap musical comedy THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE was given five riotous performances as the fourth season finale to the already legendary Encores! Great American M…
I never thought I'd end up doing this, but I've always been inclined toward music,"" said Adam Guettel in an interview last year
WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND is a story that has touched hearts and minds the world over during the four decades since Mary Hayley Bell's novel first appeared.
It may be the most popular movie musical ever, and it may generate hundreds of stage productions around the world every year, but THE SOUND OF MUSIC has not been seen on Broadway since the o…
A brilliant new recording of a dazzling Rodgers & Hart score heads the list of Fall releases with the mid-September issue of THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
""Ravishing, dazzling, sumptuous. Such terms are not excessive when applied to the touring production of THE KING AND I.""
The Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals are among the most well-constructed works of their kind. This makes them especially resistant to ""interpolation"".
R&H President Ted Chapin muses on THE SOUND OF MUSIC and the beginning at the end of the Rodgers & Hammerstein partnership
On October 27 a new entry in cyberspace, www.rnh.com, brought the writers, songs, musicals and concert works of The R&H Organization onto the World Wide Web.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC returns to Broadway for the first time in 34 years with an all-new production beginning performances at the Martin Beck Theatre in February
The Prince had found his Cinderella, the Step-mother fainted in her daughters' arms, the Fairy Godmother belted out a benediction, and everyone in the land rejoiced. 60,000,000 of them!
Perhaps the classiest offering among the newest albums of our work is KIRI SINGS BERLIN (EMI Classics; January), which has opera superstar Kiri Te Kanawa giving her own to Berlin standards
In February, THE SOUND OF MUSIC will return in its first-ever Broadway revival, directed by Susan H. Schulman, whose roster includes THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE at Encores! as well as such notabl…
Broadway became alive with THE SOUND OF MUSIC - again - when its first revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein/Lindsay & Crouse classic opened at the Martin Beck Theatre earlier this spring.
OU'RE DOIN' FINE, OKLAHOMA!: As the first musical to be staged under the tenure of new Artistic Director Trevor Nunn, Britain's Royal National Theatre will present OKLAHOMA!
Though he was born in Russia, though some of his greatest hits were written for the silver screens of Hollywood, though his songs are known the world over, Irving Berlin was a quintessential…
The letter was addressed to Irving Berlin. The date was March 24, 1969. The signatory was Dwight D. Eisenhower and four days after he wrote it, the former President was dead.
For his New York premiere two years ago, composer-lyricist Adam Guettel gave us FLOYD COLLINS, the harrowing story of a man trapped underground.
Broadway's first revival of THE SOUND OF MUSIC (see see related article) also brings Broadway's first recording of the score in 38 years
On August 31, 1928, DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER opened at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. On September 1, there were riots in the streets.
