"""Alaska"", ""Texas"", ""Space"", and ""Poland"". His non-fiction works include ""Iberia"", about his travels in Spain and Portugal; his memoir titled ""The World Is My Home""; and ""Sports in America"". ""Return to Paradise"" combines fictional short stories with Michener's factual descriptions of the Pacific areas where they take place. His first book was adapted as the popular Broadway musical ""South Pacific"" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and later as eponymous feature films in 1958 and 2001, adding to his financial success. He also wrote an analysis of the United States' Electoral College system in a book which condemned it, entitled"
"Wizard of Oz, Rogers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, Menken and Ashman's Little Shop of Horrors, Ahrens and Flaherty's Seussical, and Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. 2017 will see Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella come to the stage. All performances are in English, with projected Korean subtitles. Camarata Music Company Camarata Music Company (CMC) is an international non-profit music corporation in Seoul, South Korea. It was created for both native Koreans and foreign expatriates. Camarata currently consists of five musical ensembles: the Camarata Chorale, Camarata Chamber Singers, Camarata Junior Children’s Choir, Camarata Advanced Children's Choir, and Camarata Orchestra. Camarata Music is"
"He is never seen by the other characters in Michener's short story until a search-and-rescue party finds his head impaled on a stake. The character of Emile de Becque in Michener's short story has eight mixed-race illegitimate daughters by four different women, none of whom he married, when he meets the nurse Ensign Nellie Forbush; in the musical, he has two legitimate mixed-race children by a Polynesian woman whom he had married and who had died. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ""South Pacific"" was made into a feature film in 1958. It was adapted as a made-for television film 2001."
"also nominated for two Drama League Awards but did not win either, and for eight Outer Critics Circle Awards, winning one for costume design. Cinderella (2013 Broadway production) Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella is a musical in two acts with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Douglas Carter Beane based partly on Hammerstein's 1957 book. The story is based upon the fairy tale ""Cinderella"", particularly the French version ""Cendrillon, ou la Petite Pantoufle de Verre"", by Charles Perrault. The story concerns a young woman forced into a life of servitude by her cruel stepmother,"
"in ""The New York Times"". After Lamplighters Music Theatre of San Francisco planned a 2016 production, objections by the East Asian-American community prompted them to re-set the operetta in Renaissance-era Milan, replacing all references to Japan with Milan. Reviewers felt that the change resolved the issue. ""The King and I"" is a musical by Richard Rodgers (composer) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyricist). Based on the 1944 novel ""Anna and the King of Siam"" by Margaret Landon, the story illustrates the clash of Eastern and Western cultures by relaying the experiences of Anna, a British schoolteacher hired as part of the"
"and big band swing.” The Summer King (opera) The Summer King is a 2017 opera in two acts by American composer Daniel Sonenberg, with a libretto by poet Daniel Nester and Sonenberg, and additional lyrics by Mark Campbell. Its story follows the life of baseball legend Josh Gibson, from his early days on Pittsburgh’s North Side to the Negro Leagues, and finally achieving immortality as the second Negro League player to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. ‘’The Summer King’’ had its world premiere at Pittsburgh Opera in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 29, 2017. Composer Sonenberg was"
"Rodgers and Hammerstein's new show, ""Me and Juliet"", although ""South Pacific"" had to be moved to Boston for five weeks because of schedule conflicts. When it closed on January 16, 1954, after 1,925 performances, it was the second-longest-running musical in Broadway history, after ""Oklahoma!"". At the final performance, Myron McCormick, the only cast member remaining from the opening, led the performers and audience in ""Auld Lang Syne""; the curtain did not fall but remained raised as the audience left the theatre. On a South Pacific island during World War II, two half-Polynesian children, Ngana and Jerome, happily sing as they"
"The Summer King (opera) The Summer King is a 2017 opera in two acts by American composer Daniel Sonenberg, with a libretto by poet Daniel Nester and Sonenberg, and additional lyrics by Mark Campbell. Its story follows the life of baseball legend Josh Gibson, from his early days on Pittsburgh’s North Side to the Negro Leagues, and finally achieving immortality as the second Negro League player to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. ‘’The Summer King’’ had its world premiere at Pittsburgh Opera in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 29, 2017. Composer Sonenberg was so taken with the"
"profits went into the R&H till. So, though not in the same category as the storied five that were made into films - Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music - our show must be considered a success"". With the exception of a short run in Chicago, there was no national tour, and the show has seldom been seen. A small-scale production was presented by London's Finborough Theatre in 2010. The origins of ""Me and Juliet"" can be traced to the early days of the relationship between Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical ""Oklahoma!"" opened"
"was friends with Harry, who struggles with his death. • Yussl – Harry's deceased friend and lover from the old country with whom he was imprisoned during the Holocaust. • Nazi – Nazi guard in the camp in which Harry and Yussl were imprisoned. Letter to Harvey Milk Letter to Harvey Milk is a musical composed by Laura l. Kramer, lyrics by Ellen M. Schwartz, book by Jerry James; it is based on Lesléa Newman's short story of the same name. It won the Richard Rodgers Award in 2012. Its New York premier at the New York Musical Theatre Festival"
"less than a year, although it turned a small profit. After this, the two were determined to achieve another hit. According to director Joshua Logan, a friend of both theatre men, he and Leland Hayward mentioned Michener's best-selling book to Rodgers as a possible basis for the duo's next play, but the composer took no action. Logan recalled that he then pointed it out to Hammerstein, who read Michener's book and spoke to Rodgers; the two agreed to do the project so long as they had majority control, to which Hayward grudgingly agreed. Michener, in his 1992 memoirs, however, wrote"
"Cinderella (2013 Broadway production) Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella is a musical in two acts with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Douglas Carter Beane based partly on Hammerstein's 1957 book. The story is based upon the fairy tale ""Cinderella"", particularly the French version ""Cendrillon, ou la Petite Pantoufle de Verre"", by Charles Perrault. The story concerns a young woman forced into a life of servitude by her cruel stepmother, who dreams of a better life. With the help of her Fairy Godmother, Cinderella is transformed into an elegant young lady and is able"
"Rodgers and Hammerstein's ""Pipe Dream"", based on John Steinbeck's novel ""Sweet Thursday"". Under the direction of Marc Bruni, the production ran from March 28 to April 1, 2012. On April 24, 2012, Osnes headlined a concert performance of ""The Sound of Music"" at Carnegie Hall (New York City) as Maria. Also featured were Tony Goldwyn as Captain von Trapp, Brooke Shields as Elsa Schraeder and Patrick Page as Max Detweiler. Osnes starred in the title role of ""Cinderella"" on Broadway, which began previews at the Broadway Theatre on January 25 and opened on March 3, 2013. Osnes received positive reviews,"
"worldwide by Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatricals, with the Spanish language premiere taking place in Mexico City in October 2015. In December 2013, ""The Snow Gorilla"" – featuring the voice of Brian Blessed – opened for a five-week run at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, for which they wrote music and lyrics. Their new stage musical adaptation of Sue Townsend's ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾"" opened at Leicester's Curve Theatre in March 2015. Their original new musical ""Prodigy"", commissioned by National Youth Music Theatre, ran at the St James Theatre in August 2015. The original cast recording of ""Prodigy"""
"Play was ""Long Day’s Journey Into Night"" and Outstanding Revival of a Musical was ""She Loves Me"". The John Gassner Award winner was Marco Ramirez for ""The Royale"". The nominees included ""Something Rotten!"" – 12, ""On the Twentieth Century"" – 9, ""An American in Paris"" – 8, ""Wolf Hall"" – 7, ""It Shoulda Been You"" – 6, ""The Audience"" – 6, ""The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"" – 6, ""Hamilton"" – 5, ""The Elephant Man"" – 5, ""The King and I"" – 5, ""The Visit"" – 5, ""On The Town"" – 4, ""You Can't Take It with"
"lived to the age of 102. In the early 1940s, composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, each a longtime Broadway veteran, joined forces and began their collaboration by writing two musicals that became massive hits, ""Oklahoma!"" (1943) and ""Carousel"" (1945). An innovation for its time in integrating song, dialogue and dance, ""Oklahoma!"" would serve as ""the model for Broadway shows for decades"". In 1999, ""Time"" magazine named ""Carousel"" the best musical of the century, writing that Rodgers and Hammerstein ""set the standards for the 20th century musical"". Their next effort, ""Allegro"" (1947), was a comparative disappointment, running for"
"Mack and Mabel Mack and Mabel is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The plot involves the tumultuous romantic relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand (transformed from an artist's model to a waitress from Flatbush, Brooklyn for the musical), who became one of his biggest stars. In a series of flashbacks, Sennett relates the glory days of Keystone Studios from 1911, when he discovered Normand and cast her in dozens of his early ""two-reelers"", through his creation of Sennett's Bathing Beauties and the Keystone Cops to Mabel's death"
"(later Allen) sang it. Legs Diamond (musical) Legs Diamond is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and Charles Suppon based on the Warner Brothers film ""The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond"" (1960), with a screenplay by Joseph Landon. The music and lyrics are by Peter Allen. ""The Almost Totally Fictitious Musical History of Legs Diamond"" follows the travails of its title character, a Depression-era mobster who wants to break into show business. The musical opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on December 26, 1988 and closed on February 19, 1989 after 64 performances and 72"
"Beautiful"", running for only 60 performances in 1958, but ""Fiorello!"" (1959) ran for 795 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. ""Fiddler on the Roof"" (1964) ""became one of the most cherished of all Broadway musicals."" Harnick wrote the libretto for the opera ""Coyote Tales"", with music by Henry Mollicone, which received its world premiere at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City in March 1998. He wrote the book, music and lyrics to the musical ""Dragons"", which was performed in 2003 at the Luna Stage in Montclair, New Jersey. He wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book with Norton"
"George and Ira Gershwin, Kalmar and Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II. Bolton is best known for his early work on the Princess Theatre musicals during the First World War with Wodehouse and the composer Jerome Kern. These shows moved the American musical away from the traditions of European operetta to small scale, intimate productions with what the ""Oxford Encyclopedia of Popular Music"" calls, ""smart and witty integrated books and lyrics, considered to be a watershed in the evolution of the American musical."" Among his 50 plays and musicals, most of which were considered ""frothy confections"", additional hits included ""Primrose"" (1924),"
"The Christmas Schooner The Christmas Schooner is a musical written by John Reeger with music and lyrics by Julie Shannon. Premiered at Bailiwick Repertory Theatre and received the 1996 Chicago After Dark Award for outstanding new work. A twelve-year continuing seasonal run has followed as well as a CD, and productions in the Midwest, Texas and California have also been successful. 2008 was the final season for the performance at the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre. Based on the true story of the ""Rouse Simmons"", a Great Lakes schooner whose captain risks life and limb to transport fir trees from Michigan's Upper"
"in 1943; it was Rodgers and Hammerstein's first work together and a massive hit. Soon after ""Oklahoma!"" opened, Rodgers began considering the idea of a musical set backstage at a theatre staging a musical. The production could explore different areas of the backstage world. Rodgers also saw it as the opportunity to write a pure musical comedy, without the serious themes which had marked their early works—such as the attacks on racism in ""South Pacific"", and the cultural tolerance in ""The King and I"". Hammerstein was initially unenthusiastic, thinking the subject matter trivial, but Rodgers pressed the matter. It was"
"The King and I The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Margaret Landon's novel, ""Anna and the King of Siam"" (1944), which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. The musical's plot relates the experiences of Anna, a British schoolteacher hired as part of the King's drive to modernize his country. The relationship between the King and Anna is marked by conflict through much of the piece,"
"while Jefferson Graham of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" touted the film the ""crown jewel"" of the revival. The same newspaper reported that ""Cinderella"" was one of 16 upcoming television films commissioned for the series. One of ABC's promotional advertisements for ""Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"" featured a black-and-white scene from the original 1957 broadcast in which Andrews sings ""In My Own Little Corner"", which transitions into Brandy singing her more contemporary rendition of the same song, its ""funkier orchestration"" sounding particularly noticeable opposite Andrews' original. ""Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"" premiered on October 13, 1997 at Mann's Chinese Theatre, which Houston attended with"
"the Menier Chocolate Factory in London in 2012, with David Bedella playing Arnold. ""Torch Song Trilogy"" was produced by The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC as part of its subscription series September – October 2013. It was directed by Michael Kahn, artistic director of The Shakespeare Theatre, also in Washington, DC. In the fall of 2017, a significantly revised version of the play, cut down by Fierstein from its original four-plus hours to two hours and forty-five minutes and retitled simply ""Torch Song"", was produced Off Broadway by Second Stage Theatre, with Michael Urie as Arnold and Mercedes Ruehl as"
"and Hammerstein, though renowned for such hits as ""Oklahoma!"", ""Carousel"", and ""South Pacific"", suffered a relative failure with the 1953 musical ""Me and Juliet"", a tale of romance among the cast and stagehands backstage at a musical. Before agreeing to do the ""Sweet Thursday"" project, the duo had considered other projects for their next work together, such as an adaptation of the film ""Saratoga Trunk"". A proposal made by attorney David Merrick to adapt a series of works by Marcel Pagnol to which Merrick held the stage rights fell through when the duo were not willing to have Merrick be"
"<nowiki>[</nowiki>""<nowiki>Me and</nowiki>""<nowiki>]</nowiki> ""Juliet"" ever finding an audience ... so these songs are up for grabs."" Composer and author Ethan Mordden, in his book on the duo's works, wrote of the conceptual difficulties which Rodgers and Hammerstein had with the musical: Principal characters: Characters in ""Me and Juliet"" (play-within-the-play): Books Articles and webpages Me and Juliet Me and Juliet is a musical comedy by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics and book) and their sixth stage collaboration. The work tells a story of romance backstage at a long-running musical: assistant stage manager Larry woos chorus girl Jeanie behind the"
"incongruity of a Victorian British governess in the midst of an exotic court: ""The first-act finale of ""The King and I"" will feature Miss Lawrence, Mr. Brynner, and a pink satin ball gown."" Mielziner's set plan was the simplest of the four Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals he had worked on, with one main set (the throne room), a number of front-stage drops (for the ship and Anna's room, for example) and the entire stage cleared for ""The Small House of Uncle Thomas"". The show was budgeted at $250,000 (US$ in dollars) making it the most expensive Rodgers and Hammerstein production"
"biographer, Hugh Fordin, tied the failure of the play to the lyricist's prudery: Articles and webpages Pipe Dream (musical) Pipe Dream is the seventh musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; it premiered on Broadway on November 30, 1955. The work is based on John Steinbeck's short novel ""Sweet Thursday""—Steinbeck wrote the novel, a sequel to ""Cannery Row"", in the hope of having it adapted into a musical. Set in Monterey, California, the musical tells the story of the romance between Doc, a marine biologist, and Suzy, who in the novel is a prostitute; her profession"
"in West Orange, New Jersey. Bohmer is the father of two daughters from a previous marriage, Cassidy and Austen. Ron Bohmer Ron Bohmer is an American actor and singer best known for his musical theatre roles on Broadway. He has starred in numerous Broadway productions, including ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", ""Les Misérables"", and ""Fiddler on the Roof"", and toured the United States playing such parts as the Phantom in ""The Phantom of the Opera"", and Joseph Smith in ""The Book of Mormon"". As a concert soloist he has performed with symphony orchestras around the world. Bohmer grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio"
"and Drama Desk award in 2007 for ""The Coast of Utopia"". He also has received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting. He also designed the lights for ""Little Women"". In 2013, Posner achieved a near-sweep of the nominations for the Tony Award for best lighting design of a musical, garnering nods in three of the four eligible slots (for ""Kinky Boots"", ""Pippin"", and ""Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella""), but did not win. Posner was educated at SUNY Purchase, where Brian MacDevitt also attended. He is a 1983 graduate of Eastchester High School in Eastchester, New York. He also attended"
"the original, the show exists in a full length version, One-Act Edition and a one-hour-long JR version designed for middle-school aged performers and is licensed through Music Theatre International. A musical version, based on the 2010 film """" and features the songs from the first two ""Camp Rock"" films. The Gardiner Spring Auditorium in Ontario, California on August 5, 2010 and has performed internationally worldwide. The musical is licensed through Music Theatre International. The show, based on the 1992 film, features a book by Harvey Fierstein and music by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman. A reading of the musical was"
"Romance/Romance Romance/Romance is a musical with a book and lyrics by Barry Harman and music by Keith Herrmann. The show is composed of two acts linked only by the common theme of love and one song performed in both acts. The first, ""The Little Comedy"", is based on a short story by Arthur Schnitzler and explores the budding relationship between two people who have adopted personas other than their own. Set in late 19th century Vienna, it focuses on Josefine, a demimonde weary of the social life provided by her upper class lovers, and wealthy playboy Alfred, who has tired"