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Related: About this forumHow Rodgers and Hammerstein Created Modern Musical Theater
SOMETHING WONDERFUL
Rodgers and Hammersteins 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
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The Polack MSgt
(13,192 posts)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
(34,119 posts)2. Cool!
Booked for later. I just LOVE musical theater.
Chipper Chat
(9,687 posts)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
(131,107 posts)4. 'Critics' often do such,
and then different critics differ, >>> audiences: We've GOT to see it!!!
Chipper Chat
(9,687 posts)5. Even tho it was fictional
Addison DeWitt in all about Eve was eye-opening