Word: hammersteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such spoofing is one way of placating his pet peeves, says Abe. But the "good things, like Oscar Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan and Christmas carols" he cannot kid. That still leaves him plenty of subjects...
Show Boat (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; book adapted by Mr. Hammerstein from Edna Ferber's novel) is still one of the most satisfying of all musicals. Few shows can boast a more delightful score. Instead of seeming dated after 18 years, Show Boat is merely very nostalgic: it brings back the '203 through the ear and the '903 through...
...Rodgers-Hammerstein style songs composed by Sharpe and lyricized by William Scudder are seldom clever, but they're usually spirited and often quite tuneful. Members of the cast deserving distinctly honorable mention are Allan Butler, James Young, Allan Dingwall, Robert Gardner, Scudder, Richard Humphrey, David Mackintosh, George Tilghman, Robert Young, and--but hell, this isn't the social register...
...year-old John McCormack went off to Milan to study. Two years later he was on the Covent Garden stage himself, singing Cavalleria Rusticana. And in another two years he was a hit at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House. Critics still had reservations: they referred to him as "the best endowed lyric tenor of his time." Ah, but singing Kathleen Mavourneen or Irish Eyes when Al Smith or Jimmy Walker or any other good Irishman was about, he'd steal their hearts away...
...readers of Grapes of Wrath who picture Oklahoma as a dusty breeding ground of hungry-eyed migrants, and for playgoers to whom Oklahoma! is a Hammerstein-Rodgers funfair of blond ballerinas and pink-cheeked cowboys, The Cherokee Strip will be an entertaining antidote...