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The farmer and the cowman are dancing together again in a Broadway revival of Oklahoma! The King and I and Carousel have each got a fresh coat of paint in recent years. Even that postwar war-horse South Pacific is on a national tour and was revived a short time...
Jerry Lee often said that pop music had produced only four supreme stylists: Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams and himself. (Al Jolson??) On that incendiary night at the Brooklyn Paramount - March 28, 1958 - JLL could reasonably expect he might soon be the most popular of the four. "Breathless," his...
The reality was more dramatic than even a histrionic Rooney could have made it - or at least played it, while Rodgers was around and his brother-in-law Ben Feiner Jr. was helping to write the movie's screenplay. (Another scenarist, by the way, was Guy Bolton - the book writer...
It turned out that Hart was bankrupt. The chronic spendthrift had entrusted much of his income to William Kron, a money manager recommended by Rodgers. Oddly, the money could not be found. Further, according to a new will that magically materialized, 30% of the money Hart's estate might earn...
Thus was a discordant coda to the complicated friendship of two Makers of Melody. Rodgers continued his uniquely popular and remunerative collaboration with Hammerstein. They wrote 10 more musicals, from the 1945 "Carousel" to the 1959 "The Sound of Music" - which has proved so durable that what originally was kitsch...