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Following an agreement signed today with The Really Useful Group, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization is proud to announce that its Theatre Library division will be the exclusive U.S. and…
Country music superstar Reba McEntire made her Broadway debut in late January as Annie Oakley, leading the Tony-winning revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun into its third year on B…
We're going Hollywood this spring with newly remastered motion picture soundtrack reissues...
By day they were ordinary citizens, joining in protests, carrying picket signs, demanding a right to revote, denouncing the so-called ""butterfly ballots."" By night they were actors, appear…
Nearly a decade in the making, THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF Irving Berlin is a remarkable tome, comprised of more than 1200 lyrics by the most prolific songwriter of the 20th century.
William Hammerstein died in his home in Washington, CT., on March 9 of this year.
An all-new, television production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific premiered on ABC-TV on March 26, giving the network an enchanted evening as 16,000,000 viewers tuned in, and made i…
Julie Andrews was the original, and Brandy the latest, but for several generations, dewey-eyed Lesley Ann Warren will always be their Cinderella, thanks to the CBS re-make of the R&H TV musi…
The phenomenon of SING-A-LONG SOUND OF MUSIC has been reported in these pages before; one of its most ardent cheerleaders is Charmian Carr, the film's ""Liesl.""
The news first appeared in USA Today, with a headline in the Life section that read, ""Cats May Pounce on a Stage Near You.""
On June 28, 2001, at the Broadway theatre named in his honor, and exactly one year before the 100th anniversary of his birth, composer Richard Rodgers' Centennial was launched.
An all-new, television production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific premiered on ABC-TV on March 26.
In late October, with ""God Bless America"" filling the airwaves and ""White Christmas"" about to make its annual return, Knopf published THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF Irving Berlin
Separated by the north Atlantic, two major productions of South Pacific are drawing rave reviews and nightly ovations this season...
September 11 2001. On the afternoon of the day America was attacked, every member of the U. S. Congress gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C. to express solidarity with eac…
Irving Berlin had a #1 hit last October when the new album GOD BLESS AMERICA (Sony) debuted at the top of the Billboard charts
Playwright, librettist, screenwriter David Henry Hwang on Flower Drum Song: ""It's really part of the fabric of having grown up as an Asian American baby boomer,"" he told the Los Angeles Ti…
Almost as soon as his song ""God Bless America"" began generating revenue, Irving Berlin established The God Bless America Fund, to benefit America youth.
Anyone old enough to recall the era of Donald O'Connor dancing up walls, Bob Hope cracking wise and Jimmy Durante singing something with a "hot-cha -cha" has no doubt lamented that they just…
Eight times a week, thousands of theatergoers stream out of the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway, having just spent a couple of hours amidst the cornfields and blue skies of turn-of-the-century …
Theres something unique about the Upper West Side of Manhattan Island in New York City
Long renowned as the composers personal favorite, CAROUSEL is playing a major role in the Rodgers Centennial with special concert presentations...
In his lifetime, Richard Rodgers was frequently feted with star-studded tributes at Carnegie Hall, on the ED SULLIVAN SHOW and at Tony Award ceremonies.
One Monday night in April, as I gave a talk at th New-York Historical Society about lesser-known Rodgers musicals, a talented trio of performers ended the lecture with a lively rendition of …
One name links the 100th birthday concert for Oscar Hammerstein II on Broadway in 1995, and the corresponding tribute for Richard Rodgers on his 100th birthday this past June 28.
