In a cinematic treatment from Hollywood’s major studios for the first RodgersĪnd Hammerstein musical came almost immediately after the initial reviews for Oklahoma!,īut the rights went not to a movie studio, but a film equipment start-up knownĪs the Magna Theatre Corporation. Musical theater partnerships in the medium’s history. It began one of the most fruitful, important, and accomplished To modern, urbane works – it became the longest-running Broadway musical forĪnother dozen or so years. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 adaptation of Rigg’s play was Oklahoma!Īnd – despite widespread predictions that Broadway audiences would only flock In Oscar Hammerstein II, who had not been involved in any Broadway successesįor some time.
Play Green Grow the Lilacs into a musical, Rodgers would find a new lyricist His previous partner, the lyricist Lorenz Hart, was devolving into anĪlcoholism that would soon claim his life. Richard Rodgers was in search of a new songwriting partner in the early 1940s.
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