Merman accepted, but in November Kern suffered a stroke while in New York City visiting Rodgers and Hammerstein ( the producers of the show ) and died a few days later.

* July 12 – Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist ( died 1960 )

* June 16-Elaine Hammerstein, American actress ( died 1948 )

Hammerstein died in August 1960, before the film was made.

By the time the project began to jell, however, Hammerstein had died, and Stephen Sondheim was asked by Laurents and Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers ' daughter, to write the lyrics.

This re-make used a new script that hewed closer to the traditional tale, commissioned by Rodgers ( Hammerstein had died in 1960 ) and written by Joseph Schrank, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and sung in their original settings.

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.

The adaptation became the first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, entitled Oklahoma !, which opened on Broadway in 1943.

According to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story by Stanley Green, " For three minutes, on the night of September first, the entire Times Square area in New York City was blacked out in honor of the man who had done so much to light up that particular part of the world.

* Oscar Hammerstein II interviewed by Mike Wallace on The Mike Wallace Interview March 15, 1958

The elder Hammerstein became Sondheim's surrogate father, and had a profound influence on him, especially in developing a love for musical theatre.

Thus began one of the most famous apprenticeships in the musical theatre, as Hammerstein designed a kind of course for Sondheim on the construction of a musical.

As a struggling young actress, Martin endured humorous and sometimes frightful luck trying to make it in the world, from car crashes leading to vocal instruction, unknowingly singing in front of Oscar Hammerstein II, to her final break on Broadway granted by the very prominent producer, Lawrence Schwab.

* A feature on Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Hammerstein could not find anyone as talented as Herbert, but settled on the unknown Friml because of his classical training.

This era of Hollywood Squares recorded three weeks of show in the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York during Season 3 ( November 6 – 24, 2000 ), but was more notable for its reliance on " theme weeks.

The novel was adapted as a hit musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, The King and I ( 1951 ), starring Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner, which ran 1, 246 performances on Broadway.

The first presentation of the film was at the Palace Theater in Chicago on February 8, 1914 ; later performances were at the Hammerstein Theater in New York City.

Producers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II invited Irving Berlin to replace him, and the result was Annie Get Your Gun, which opened on May 16, 1946 at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for nearly three years and 1, 147 performances.

Ferncliff Cemetery is located on Secor Road in Hartsdale, famous as the burial grounds for many celebrities including Aaliyah, Malcolm X, Heavy D, Judy Garland, Jerome Kern, Joan Crawford, Basil Rathbone, Ed Sullivan, Jam-Master Jay, James Baldwin, Michel Fokine, Tom Carvel, Oscar Hammerstein, Thelonious Monk, Paul Robeson, Minnesota Timberwolves Guard Malik Sealy and others.

In the show's June 20, 1948 debut, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed along with singer Monica Lewis and Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II previewing the score to their then-new show South Pacific, which opened on Broadway in 1949.

The team made its TV debut on the very first broadcast of CBS-TV network's Toast of the Town ( later called The Ed Sullivan Show ) with Ed Sullivan and Rodgers & Hammerstein appearing on this same inaugural telecast of June 20, 1948.

* January 6 – A somewhat revised and streamlined revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre, the same theatre at which the original production played back in 1927.

* Golden Dawn Broadway operetta opened at the Hammerstein Theatre on November 30 and ran for 184 performances

* Show Boat ( Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II )-Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 27 and ran for 572 performances

* February 22 – A new, videotaped production of the 1957 special Cinderella, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, airs on CBS with young Lesley Ann Warren ( in the title role ) starring alongside Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, and Celeste Holm.

Produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the Broadway production opened on October 19, 1944 at the Music Box Theatre and ran for 713 performances.

During World War II, he participated in the " Hollywood Anti-Nazi League for the Defense of American Democracy " with Oscar Hammerstein and others, putting on exhibits of artworks banned in Nazi Germany such as those by Käthe Kollwitz.

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960 ) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and ( usually uncredited ) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years.

* August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, Polish-born theater impressario and composer ( born 1847 )

* August 1-Oscar Hammerstein I, musical theatre impresario ( b. 1847 )

* Theodore S. Chapin, of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, discusses their copyright license philosophy at Jacob's Pillow PillowTalk, August 29, 2009

She repeated her Proms Concert success when she appeared in a Rodgers and Hammerstein evening, once again with the John Wilson Orchestra at The Royal Albert Hall with opera singer Rod Gilfry in August 2010.

Hammerstein — together with Generalfeldmarshall August von Mackensen — launched a campaign to have Schleicher rehabilitated.

Oscar Hammerstein I ( 8 May 18471 August 1919 ) was a businessman, theater impresario and composer in New York City.

Collision with crane near Hammerstein station, August 5, 2008

Punk made his TV wrestling debut on August 1, 2006 at the Hammerstein Ballroom, defeating Justin Credible.

Spencer was initially a member in training, until he became a full fledged member when the tandem captured the World Tag Team Championship from Yoshihiro Tajiri and Mikey Whipwreck on August 25, 2000, on Day Two of Ballroom Blitz, which was ECW's debut at The Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.

Perry Como recorded the Rodgers and Hammerstein song on May 19, 1953 and was released by RCA Victor The record reached # 1 on the Billboard and Cash Box charts in August 1953.

The musicals The Book of Mormon and the revival of Anything Goes, received 12 and 10 nominations, the most of any shows. The awards ceremony was held on May 23, 2011 at the Hammerstein Ballroom at the Manhattan Center, New York City and was hosted by Harvey Fierstein.

It was revealed on November 15, 2011 that Severn was ( in kayfabe ) training Eddie Edwards for his match with Davey Richards at Ring of Honor's Final Battle 2011, to take place on December 23, 2011 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.

David Hammerstein Mintz ( born on 23 September 1955 in Los Angeles ) is a Spanish politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Los Verdes, part of the European Greens.