How Rodgers and Hammerstein Created Modern Musical Theater

[elleng]

SOMETHING WONDERFUL

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution

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

[The Polack MSgt]

1. K&R - Even though I need to

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]

2. Cool!

Booked for later. I just LOVE musical theater.

[Chipper Chat]

3. without reading the article

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]

4. 'Critics' often do such,

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

[Chipper Chat]

5. Even tho it was fictional

Addison DeWitt in all about Eve was eye-opening