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...around remains Irma La Douce, the freshest Carnival!, and Bye Bye Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but despite the inspired help of Nancy Walker, book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. As for Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is a national monument made of sugar, and should appeal to anyone who likes monuments, sugar or Mary Martin...
...comeback it was not Sunset Boulevard. But when Eddie sang People Will Say We're in Love and So Far, the Rodgers and Hammerstein schmalz was chicken fat of the highest quality. He threw Yiddish words into the German version of Mack the Knife and kept a straight face while delivering Never on Sunday in Greek (Spyros Skouras had sent a telegram spelling out the lyrics...
Because he left $5,600 of his estimated $15 million estate to London's Southwark Cathedral, Oscar Hammerstein II will be honored by the designation of two choirboys as "Hammerstein Chanters," and by a plaque "To the glory of God and in memory of Oscar Hammerstein, citizen of the United States of America, playwright and lyricist." Among the other assorted literary types honored in the ancient church: William Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson, John Harvard...
When his collaborator of 18 years, Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, died last summer, Composer Richard Rodgers said sadly, "I can't bring myself to get involved with anyone else." But last week Rodgers announced what he described as the "almost inevitable": partnership with Alan Jay Lerner, whose longtime coworker, Fritz Loewe, had decided on a lengthy vacation from Broadway...
Anyway, give me Rodgers and Hammerstein any evening...