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Wild, wild west: Sharpshooter Annie Oakley and cowboy Curly McClain lead the charge of our latest cast album issues and reissues...
When New York City Center's acclaimed Encores! Series presented Rodgers & Hart's BABES IN ARMS in February of 1999, New York Times critic Ben Brantley summarized the prevailing, giddy reacti…
An edition of the midnight camp classic ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW has been playing Friday nights in a little cinema off Leicester Square in London for years.
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were Broadway folk who didn't particularly like Hollywood, but Hollywood loved R&H.
Bert Fink, editor of this newsletter, visited Salzburg, Austria last fall. Once there, he couldn't get THE SOUND OF MUSIC out of his head.
The R&H Theatre Library is proud to announce the release of professional performance rights to the smash off-Broadway musical I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE
he Queen of the British musical and the King of American action films will be working together this spring when Elaine Paige and Jason Scott Lee take on the starring roles in a London reviva…
The newest recording of Rodgers & Hart's musical comedy classic BABES IN ARMS (see p. 1) features the '99 New York City Center Encores! cast headed by David Campbell, Erin Dilly and Melissa …
""When I was a little kid I used to do magic tricks for people,"" says singer /songwriter John Bucchino
In the now-vanished world of fin de siecle Middle Europe, in a place of romance and roses, Viennese waltzes and French champagne, Ferenc Molnar first spun his enchanting boulevard comedy THE…
Bruce Pomahac bears the title ""Director of Music"" for the Organization.
Michael John LaChiusa's haunting musical MARIE CHRISTINE made history as the final Broadway musical of the 20th Century, and then his second work for the same season, THE WILD PARTY, was hai…
Heralded by an advance ticket sale of 7 million pounds (the largest reported in London history), the acclaimed Australian-New York production of THE KING AND I opened on May 3.
BULLS EYE! ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (Angel) wins the 2000 Grammy Award for ""Best Musical Show Album""
The musical is becoming an accepted part of academic curricula.
It was Jerome Kern who coined the famous maxism, ""Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music.""
Starring (and co-produced by) Glenn Close as that cockeyed optimist Nellie Forbush, an all-new adaptation of SOUTH PACIFIC will be seen on ABC-TV next year...
Fate is a powerful force in the plot of Michael John LaChiusa's haunting new musical MARIE CHRISTINE.
The key to any successful adaptation can probably be summed up in three words: good source material.
THE KING AND I score by Rodgers and Hammerstein, including the first full-length, cast album recording of ""The Small House of Uncle Thomas"" ballet, can be heard in the '00 London cast reco…
Fifty years ago, the M-G-M movie version of Irving Berlin's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN opened to rave reviews and boffo business, and soon became one of the studio's highest-grossing musicals. In th…
One of the ongoing projects at The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization is the preparation of corrected libretti and scores (including full orchestral scores), authenticated by as much origina…
In our last issue, R&H President Ted Chapin wrote an article examining a litany of discrepancies found in the songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rodgers & Hart and Irving Berlin.
On March 29, 1951, Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I opened at the St. James Theatre on Broadway.
