At present, the society is performing a tribute concert to the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein at the National Concert Hall.

The song " You'll Never Walk Alone ", originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and later recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry & The Pacemakers, is the club's anthem and has been sung by the Anfield crowd since the early 1960s.

In 1927, Kern and Hammerstein had their biggest hit, Show Boat, which is often revived and is still considered one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre.

The Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre is presented annually.

* The 1955 film Oklahoma !, an adaptation of the famed Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is re-released.

It is also one of two Rodgers and Hammerstein films to be nominated for Best Picture ( which it does not win ).

He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II.

He is most remembered for being Oscar Hammerstein II's mentor and was one of the first librettists to believe that songs should be woven into a show, not just placed there.

Rodgers is a director of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization and a board member of ASCAP.

* The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma is based in the Oklahoma land rush.

However the humorous depiction of Mongkut as a polka-dancing despot, as well as the king's and Anna's apparent romantic feeling for each other, is condemned as disrespectful in Bangkok, where the Rodgers and Hammerstein film was banned by the Thai Government.

Other movies influenced by or making use of Uncle Tom's Cabin include Dimples ( a 1936 Shirley Temple film ), Uncle Tom's Uncle, ( a 1926 Our Gang episode ), its 1932 remake Spanky, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I ( in which a ballet called " Small House of Uncle Thomas " is performed in traditional Siamese style ), and Gangs of New York ( in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend an imagined wartime adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin ).

Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet ( orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett ) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II.

( 1955 ), Zinnemann's version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is noted for the wide screen format Todd-AO making its debut, as did the film's young star, Shirley Jones.

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.

* " The Song is You " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

Carousel is also unique among the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals for not having an overture ; both the stage and film versions began with the familiar Carousel Waltz.

In highly fictionalized form, it is the locale of James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific and the subsequent Rogers and Hammerstein musical, South Pacific.

The last of these is a transparent parody of the song " Oh, What a Beautiful Morning " from the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma !.

" For Your Eyes Only " begins with the murder of a Jamaican couple, the Havelocks, who refused to sell their estate to Herr von Hammerstein, a former Gestapo officer who is the chief of counterintelligence for the Cuban secret service.

World War II again makes an appearance in the stories: in For Your Eyes Only, Von Hammerstein is a former Gestapo officer, whilst the RCMP officer, Colonel Johns, served with the British under Montgomery in the Eighth Army.

The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel.

He is also the recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award and the Oscar Hammerstein Award.

The New Moon is the name of an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab.

The series introduced the de-commissioned war robot Hammerstein and the sewer robot Ro-Jaws, and gave rise to the popular ABC Warriors series.

Hammerstein recounts his war stories as the first successful war robot fighting against the Volgans alongside humans.

During the mission, Hammerstein met and became close to a human female, Terri, who believed herself to be a robot.

Hammerstein led the ABC Warriors in attempting to force a peace, leading to the Confederacy hiring a seven-strong robot mercenary gang called the Shadow Warriors to assassinate them.

The battle saw Hammerstein infected with parasitical brain-eating robot snakes, forced to be killed or let them kill his comrades, and though he escaped the situation he was left severely wounded.

Currently, Hammerstein is leading the ABC Warriors to rescue Zippo, a robot comrade from the Volgan War.

In 1995, Pat Mills wrote the Judge Dredd story Hammerstein which placed the eponymous robot into Dredd's world.

In this story, Hammerstein rejoined the American army after the Mars mission, serving under General Blood ' n ' Guts in President Robert L. Booth's robot armies.

After Hart's death, Rodgers collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein, with whom earlier that year he had created the hit musical Oklahoma !.

Another invention that Hammerstein created was a more efficient plumbing system for his sink when it had leaked one night.

Bledsoe performed in Frank Harling's opera Deep River in 1926 and he created the role of Joe in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat in 1927, after Paul Robeson was unable to appear in it because of scheduling conflicts.

In 1950, Landon sold the musical play rights to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who created the musical The King and I from her book.

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

He was survived by his second wife Dorothy ( Blanchard ) Jacobson ( m. May 13, 1929 ) and his three children, William Hammerstein and Alice Hammerstein Mathias by first wife Myra Finn, and James Hammerstein by Blanchard.

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.

Hammerstein contributed the lyrics to 850 songs, according to The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II, edited by Amy Asch.

* Musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein

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

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

* Show Boat ( 1927 )-music by Jerome Kern, lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld

* Allegro ( musical ), a 1947 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein

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.

Much of Rodgers's work with both Hart and Hammerstein was orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett.

* Musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein