Richard Rodgers
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Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to his credit, Rodgers was one of the best-known American compose
Rodgers at the St. James Theatre in 1948
The poster for Fly With Me, the 1920 Columbia University Varsity Show. The music was co-written by Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and also included songs by Oscar Hammerstein II, making the show one of the first collaborations between the two men.
Richard Rodgers (seated) with Lorenz Hart in 1936
Rodgers (seated) with Hammerstein, 1945
Rodgers and Hammerstein
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Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II, who together created a series of innovative and influential American musical
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…which ran for 30 episodes, and contributed the main title theme for the 1963–64 historical anthology television series The Great Adventure. In 1950, Rodgers and Hammerstein received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York." Rodgers…
Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein (right) watching auditions at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in 1948
"What's the Use of Wond'rin' " from Carousel (1947)
The final tableau in South Pacific (1949)