Like the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were loath to let a good song get away from them.

They found 115 investors to back the $ 350, 000 production, including Richard Rodgers and Sondheim's father.

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz first tried, and then Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II attempted, but gave up and Hammerstein told Lerner " Pygmalion had no subplot ".

" Another song, " Manhattan " ( by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1925 musical " Garrick Gaieties "), declares " We'll have Manhattan ,/ The Bronx and Staten / Island too ./ It's lovely going through / the zoo.

Past writers and directors have included Columbians Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, I. A. L.

Many Columbia alumni have gone on to renowned careers in the arts, such as the composers Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart, and Art Garfunkel.

In the Victory At Sea suite, Richard Rodgers wrote " Beneath The Southern Cross " to depict the battleships in convoy and the loneliness of the sailors in the Southern Pacific during World War II.

* 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( b. 1902 )

In the 1970s Kaye tore a ligament in his leg during the run of the Richard Rodgers musical Two by Two, but went on with the show, appearing with his leg in a cast and cavorting on stage from a wheelchair.

Hammerstein collaborated with composers Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg ; but his most famous collaboration, by far, was with Richard Rodgers.

Hammerstein's most successful and sustained collaboration began when he teamed up with Richard Rodgers to write a musical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs.

According to Richard Kislan, " The shows of Rodgers and Hammerstein were the product of sincerity.

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* " I Am Going to Like It Here " by Oscar Hammerstein ( and Richard Rodgers ) ( imperfect pantoum from the musical Flower Drum Song )

It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.

In 1965 he wrote the lyrics only for Do I Hear a Waltz ?, with music by Richard Rodgers.

( 1965 ) ( music by Richard Rodgers ; book by Arthur Laurents ; directed by John Dexter )

The Musical Theater of Lincoln Center and Richard Rodgers production opened at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, on June 24, 1968 and closed on September 7, 1968 after 89 performances.

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* June 28 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( d. 1979 )

* December 30 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( b. 1902 )

* America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers ( 1951 )

( This has often been the case with American popular song and musicals in the 20th century, as with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's collaboration, although with the later team of Rodgers and Hammerstein the lyrics were generally written first.

Despite this uncertainty, fourteen individuals have been identified as having verifiably attended Lunar Society meetings regularly over a long period during its most productive eras: these are Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering.

Andrewes attended the Cooper's free school, Ratcliff, in the parish of Stepney and then the Merchant Taylors ' School under Richard Mulcaster.

Richard Lovelace attended Oxford University and he was praised by one of his contemporaries, Anthony Wood.

It was attended by his sister Joan, whom Richard had brought from Sicily.

Emil Orlik, the Viennese Secessionist artist, attended the conference, at the invitation of Richard von Kühlmann.

At the meeting, BBC reporter Richard Black coined the phrase " climate tourists " to describe some delegates who attended " to see Africa, take snaps of the wildlife, the poor, dying African children and women ".

Richard Burton's description of the acting profession had convinced him that it would be better than completing his chemistry degree and so Mitchell attended RADA for two years, performing in the evening with the Unity Theatre.

In January 2009, Adams attended the United States presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama as a guest of US Congressman Richard Neal.

At the invitation of Duke Philip's father, King Maximilian I, he attended the funeral of Emperor Frederick III in 1493 and was recognised as King Richard IV of England.

The work was closely studied by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss and served as the foundation for a subsequent textbook by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who, as a music student, attended the concerts Berlioz conducted in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

* Chemist Richard R. Schrock, 2005 Nobel Prize winner in organic chemistry, was born in Berne in 1945 and attended school in Decatur.

The funeral was attended by his good friend and neighbor former senator George Aiken and former president Richard M. Nixon, Aiken died two months later.

These classes – later taught by Richard Maxfield – were attended by many artists and musicians who would become involved in Fluxus, including Jackson Mac Low, La Monte Young, George Brecht, Dick Higgins and George Maciunas.

In 1959 he attended the summer courses at Darmstadt under Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1960 relocated to New York in order to study electronic music with Richard Maxfield at the New School for Social Research.

On July 3, 2010 was inaugurated the first Free Software Street of the world in Berga, during a ceremony attended by Mr. Richard Stallman.

* Richard Lewis, ( born 1947 ), comedian, attended summer camp in 1960.

* Richard Queen, hostage in the Iran hostage crisis, attended Edgemont High School

He swore fealty to King Richard, and attended his wedding to Berengaria of Navarre.

In 1895, he heard a choir rehearsing Elgar's King Olaf, attended the first performance and became a fervent enthusiast of the new music being produced by Richard Strauss and the British composers of the day.

In 1968 Louis and Richard attended a meeting of the Research and Exploration Committee of the National Geographic Society to ask for money for Omo.

Richard Bernard Murdoch attended Charterhouse School.

Richard attended the royal councils, and more than once was with the king in Normandy.

Richard Seddon attended Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and received her Jubilee Medal and an appointment in the Privy Council.

He attended Xaverian College although at the time it was known as " Xaverian School ", and then Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama at the same time as Richard Griffiths.

In Jonathan Franzen's 2010 best-selling novel " Freedom ", the two male protagonists, Richard and Walter, attended Macalester College.