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The third and final indoor concert for the 2025 season by the Karl L. King Municipal Band will be held beginning at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Fort Dodge Middle School Auditorium, located at 800 N. 32nd ...
Incomparable and unique in their ability to write both libretti and lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein and Alan Jay Lerner brought the musical theater to an artistic peak that remains unsurpassed.
Disco singer Gloria Gaynor talks about her life at age 28 and how her biggest hit, "I Will Survive," came to be.
(Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) Eighty years ago, “Carousel,” Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s second and perhaps most endearing collaboration, played its final pre-Broadway tryouts ...
Terry Teachout - profile from The Wall Street Journal. News, articles, biography and photos.
1950 Best Musical South Pacific lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. Produced by Leland Hayward, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan and Richard Rodgers.
Nikolai Foster’s production will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1965 film adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s classic musical. Who would you like to see as Maria? Singin’ in the ...
“Preserving Highland Farm, the homestead and creative epicenter where Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the lyrics to some of the world’s most noted and performed songs, is essential for Bucks ...
As Oscar Hammerstein II put it in “The King and I”: “If allies are strong with power to protect me/Might they not protect me out of all I own?” These are our defenders? SHALOM, indeed.
Composer Richard Rodgers had wanted to adapt a rural folk drama of the 1930s — “Green Grow the Lilacs” — to the musical stage and felicitously, lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, who also ...
By Amber Countryman, Sumner Newscow — Wellington High School’s Crusaders of the Stage will perform Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical “Cinderella” this weekend in the high school auditorium.