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

It was a major success among his peers, and it considerably buoyed the young songwriter's ego ; he took it to Hammerstein, and asked him to evaluate it as though he had no knowledge of its author.

Sondheim questioned if he should write only the lyrics for another show, but Hammerstein told him writing for a star would be valuable experience.

Initially he resisted, because he was determined to write the full score for his next project ( Saturday Night had been aborted ), but Oscar Hammerstein convinced him that he would benefit from the experience, and he accepted.

It was not until Kern explained that he and Oscar Hammerstein II wanted to create a different type of musical that Ferber granted him the rights.

Hammerstein talked him out of it, arguing that the recording would ultimately increase royalties, which turned out to be the case.

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.

However, Sherman had trouble in getting permission to record for profit from some of the well-known composers and lyricists, who did not tolerate parodies or satires of their melodies and lyrics, including Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, as well as the estates of Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Kurt Weill, and Bertolt Brecht, which prevented him from releasing parodies or satires of their songs.

By the early 1940s, Hart had sunk deeper into alcoholism and emotional turmoil, and he became unreliable, prompting Rodgers to approach Hammerstein to ask if he would consider working with him.

He said Oscar Hammerstein had done that for him and he wanted to do that for me.

When Blomberg arrived at the railroad station in Berlin, he was met by Major von Kuntzen ordering him to report at once to the Defence Ministry on behalf of General von Hammerstein, and by Major Oskar von Hindenburg ordering him to report at once to the Presidential palace.

When Alvensleben returned without a clear answer as to where Hitler stood about having Schleicher as Defense Minister, Hammerstein phoned Hitler to warn him that he was faced with a fait accompli, by which Hammerstein meant a Papen government without the Nazis.

Hitler however misunderstood Hammerstein ′ s remark as implying that Schleicher was about to launch a putsch to keep him out of power.

At his funeral, Schleicher ′ s good friend General Kurt von Hammerstein was much offended when the SS refused to allow him to attend the service and confiscated the wreaths that the mourners had brought.

In late 1934-early 1935, Werner von Fritsch and Werner von Blomberg, whom Hammerstein had shamed into joining his campaign, successfully pressured Hitler into rehabilitating General von Schleicher, claiming that as officers they could not stand the press attacks on Schleicher, which portrayed him as a traitor working for France.

Judy kills von Hammerstein by shooting him in the back with a bow and arrow from away at the exact moment that he dives into a lake.

During his youth, Hammerstein's father desired him to continue with his education, wanting him to specialize in topics such as algebra, but Hammerstein desired to pursue music.

After skating in a park one day, Hammerstein's father found out and whipped him as punishment ; this would spur Hammerstein to run away to North America.

The New York Times conducted an interview with Hammerstein, and when the interviewer asked him about his financial habits, Hammerstein responded:

During a trip to Paris, a special cable was sent to him out of curiosity asking wether he wanted to quit opera in New York, given that during his 1909-1910 opera seasons in New York and Philadelphia, Hammerstein had failed in successfully maintaining audiences in his two venues in each city.

In 1945, a Technicolor musical film version of Phil Stong's novel State Fair, with songs and script by Rodgers and Hammerstein, was released.

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.

Rodgers and Hammerstein began writing together before the era of the Tonys: Oklahoma!

Richard Rodgers ( 1902 – 1979 ) and Oscar Hammerstein II ( 1895 – 1960 ) were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team, usually referred to as Rodgers and Hammerstein.

With Rodgers composing the music and Hammerstein writing the lyrics, five of their shows, Oklahoma !, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music, were outstanding successes.

By 1931, however, he had turned his attention to writing, penning the book for the musical The Gang's All Here, collaborating with Frank McCoy, Morrie Ryskind and Oscar Hammerstein II.

Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein's names are a word play on the musical writing pairing of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the story also features a number of song and dance routines.

Later, Harris began writing songs for musicals, working with Oscar Hammerstein.

By the 20th century some librettists became recognized as part of famous collaborations, as with Gilbert and Sullivan or Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Rodgers and Hammerstein also use the technique of what some call the " formula musical ".

Broadway theatre contributed some of the most popular standards of the 1930s, including George and Ira Gershwin's " Summertime " ( 1935 ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's " My Funny Valentine " ( 1937 ) and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's " All the Things You Are " ( 1939 ).

* The Trapp Family Singers, whose life story provided some inspiration for Rodgers and Hammerstein in their musical The Sound of Music, recorded a song titled " Carol of the Drum " ( identified on the Decca record jacket as a " Czech carol ") prior to their 1955 retirement.

The company also acquired some distribution rights to several films and television programs that were independently produced but released by other companies, including Sayonara, the Hal Roach-produced Laurel & Hardy-starring vehicle Babes in Toyland ( 1934 ), the Flipper TV series produced by MGM Television, the Academy Award-winning Tom Jones ( 1963 ), and the Rodgers and Hammerstein film productions of South Pacific ( 1958 ), Oklahoma!

Hammerstein was probably the best " book writer " in Broadway history – he made the story, not the songs or the stars, central to the musical and brought musical theater to full maturity as an art form.

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

His partnership with Hart having problems because of the lyricist's unreliability and declining health, Rodgers began working with Oscar Hammerstein II, with whom he had previously written a number of songs ( before ever working with Lorenz Hart ).

( Other songs in that film were from Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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.

The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization allowed Hwang to significantly rework the plot, while retaining character names and songs.

The Sound of Music probably contains more hit songs than any other Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, likely due to the phenomenal success of the film version.

Comparing the work of Rodgers and Hammerstein to that of Lloyd Webber, Paige has said that she finds Rodgers and Hammerstein songs more difficult to sing, and described them as challenging.

* 1956-Carousel ( adaptation, the songs were by Rodgers and Hammerstein )

* 1956-The King and I ( adaptation ; the songs were by Rodgers and Hammerstein ) ( Academy Award )

* 1958-South Pacific ( Conductor ; the songs were by Rodgers and Hammerstein )

* 1961-Flower Drum Song ( adaptation ; the songs were again by Rodgers and Hammerstein )

* 1962-State Fair ( remake of musical version ) ( adaptation only ; the songs were again by Rodgers and Hammerstein, with additional songs by Richard Rodgers only )

She also widely performed her one woman show in which she told anecdotes about the many great men in American musical theatre history whom she had personally known, notably George Gershwin who had proposed marriage ( according to an interview in American Heritage magazine ), Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Oscar Hammerstein, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, interspersed with a few of the songs that made each of them famous.

The new version, in which Cinderella rescues the prince, is expected to include many of the best-known songs from the familiar score and to feature additional less familiar songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein catalogue.

"); about the songs (" not top-drawer Rodgers and Hammerstein "); and the staging (" cramped ... excellent depth, but limited width marred the ballroom scene ").