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Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
By Purdum, Todd S.
- ISBN
- 9781627798341 9781627798358
- Publisher
- Holt
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Reviewed on February 1, 2018 | Arts and Humanities
Veteran reporter-writer Purdum (An Idea Whose Time Has Come) shows how composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein were not only a great show-writing team but revolutionary for their time. Between 1943 and 1949, they expanded the boundaries of Broadway musical theater with Oklahoma!, Carousel, and South Pacific, along the way amassing huge fortunes. As a team, they won...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
