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...Robert Russell Bennett’s original orchestrations had already been painstakingly collated from the archives at the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. Does any of this matter?...
..., none stays as close to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s original as this....
...The evening finished with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things”, a jazz standard famously covered by John Coltrane, and now the standout track on Purest Form, Francies’s most recent release....
...World Health Organization....
...Not to be outdone, Gina Beck begins her performance in this staging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical by singing the opening number while lying flat on her back. It’s an unconventional approach....
...But despite being liberally dusted with what used to be called “local colour”, it is surely as credible a depiction of Polynesian realities as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific....
...Though the title clearly echoes the 1989 musical Miss Saigon, the parody also scoops up references to Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical South Pacific and television series...
...A bridge back to the golden age of Tin Pan Alley and Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bacharach and David opened a new chapter for the Great American Songbook in the era of The Beatles and Motown....
...— Daniel Fish’s stunning rethink of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic unfolds in what feels like a local community hall....
...This staging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, first seen on Broadway in 2019 and now making its UK debut, unfolds in what feels like a local community hall, the whole auditorium boxed up in light...
...Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “It Might As Well Be Spring” comes next, performed straight with bass-counterpoint support, and then a bonus track, John Coltrane’s awkward “Countdown”, richly voiced and taken...
...Hammerstein, with his composer partner Richard Rodgers, brought a new degree of complexity to musical theatre. Sondheim took the process several stages further....
...But he can pretty much recall the entire Sondheim songbook, loves Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and will happily chirrup away for hours on the compositional virtues of Randy Newman and Alan Menken,...
...His light, almost conversational tenor might struggle in Rodgers and Hammerstein but it’s just fine here....
...Carousel Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, London The damaging effects of machismo also course through the plot of Carousel, though generally the problem with this 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical...
...When the musical premiered in 1949, Rodgers and Hammerstein came under pressure to remove the number — they refused....
...He was Captain Von Trapp the handsome killjoy now grown old, less matinee idol, certainly less Rodgers and Hammerstein; yet richly endowed, in the enlarged acoustic of that “now”, with all the shades and...
...You can stream Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King and I, produced by Trafalgar Entertainment, on Amazon Prime, for example, and Panter says they have a database of about three-quarters of a million...
...In a sign that Grande’s Midas touch really is functioning this time, it has provided Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, credited as co-writers, with their first Billboard number one hit. ★★★★☆ ‘...
...A shimmering, silken wall of reds and golds, sunsets and dawns, it ripples across the stage to disclose the kingdom of Siam, 1862, and Bartlett Sher’s blazingly beautiful revival of this Rodgers and Hammerstein...
...Marsalis’s soprano sax sparkles on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “I Have Dreamed”....
...This 1945 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein about a doomed fairground romance is similarly defined by the climactic tear-jerker “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, later adopted as the anthem of Liverpool Football...
...I found my life, at 14, in my first play — Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Carousel. Private school or state school? University or straight into work?...
...Last year there were four Lloyd Webber productions being staged on Broadway at the same time — a feat not achieved since Rodgers and Hammerstein....
...Offerings usually highlight Mozart and Handel — though Longborough has a Wagnerian focus — and this year Grange Park moves into more popular territory with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma....
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