Music Appreciation

elleng

(130,895 posts) Tue May 1, 2018, 10:57 AM May 2018

How Rodgers and Hammerstein Created Modern Musical Theater

SOMETHING WONDERFUL

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/books/review/something-wonderful-todd-s-purdum.html?

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How Rodgers and Hammerstein Created Modern Musical Theater (Original Post) elleng May 2018 OP

K&R - Even though I need to The Polack MSgt May 2018 #1

Cool! MuseRider May 2018 #2

without reading the article Chipper Chat May 2018 #3

'Critics' often do such, elleng May 2018 #4

Even tho it was fictional Chipper Chat May 2018 #5

The Polack MSgt

(13,188 posts)

1. K&R - Even though I need to

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue May 1, 2018, 11:01 AM

May 2018

wait to read this.

Can't access the NY times at work.

ETA - Oh wait it's the 1st, I have 4 free articles.

MuseRider

(34,108 posts)

2. Cool!

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue May 1, 2018, 11:08 AM

May 2018

Booked for later. I just LOVE musical theater.

Chipper Chat

(9,678 posts)

3. without reading the article

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue May 1, 2018, 11:12 AM

May 2018

I understood it to be in 1943 when instead of Oklahoma opening with a chorus line of leggy gals but with a bare stage and a woman churning butter. That was unheard of and the critics immediately doomed the musical as a failure.

elleng

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4. 'Critics' often do such,

Reply to Chipper Chat (Reply #3)

Tue May 1, 2018, 11:14 AM

May 2018

and then different critics differ, >>> audiences: We've GOT to see it!!!

Chipper Chat

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5. Even tho it was fictional

Reply to elleng (Reply #4)

Tue May 1, 2018, 01:30 PM

May 2018

Addison DeWitt in all about Eve was eye-opening

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