Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards, six for lyrics or book, and two as producer of the Best Musical ( South Pacific and The Sound of Music ).

James Michener won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his collection of short stories, Tales of the South Pacific, which in turn was the basis for South Pacific, the 1949 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, also a Pulitzer Prize winner.

* South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, directed by Trevor Nunn, with Philip Quast who won the 2002 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical ( 2001 )

For their adaptation, Rodgers and Hammerstein, along with co-writer Joshua Logan, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950.

In 1996, Phillips made his Broadway debut as the King in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's The King and I. Phillips won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his performance.

Observers expected that either " Blues in the Night " or " Chattanooga Choo Choo " would win, so that when " The Last Time I Saw Paris " actually won, neither its composer, Jerome Kern, nor lyricist, Oscar Hammerstein II, was present at the ceremony.

She remained loyal to Hammerstein and appeared at the Met for only one season, in 1911-12 ( giving just eight performances, in the roles of Lucia, Violetta, and Gilda ).

Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals earned a total of 35 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Awards.

The brief 1955 production, directed by William Hammerstein and choreographed by Onna White, starred Helen Gallagher, Merv Griffin, and Will Mahoney, who was nominated for a Tony as Best Featured Actor in a Musical.

Perhaps their best-known collaboration was on the book for the 1960 Tony Award-winning musical The Sound of Music, which featured music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Crouse's old collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II.

* The Sound of Music, 1959 Broadway, 1961 London, m Richard Rodgers, l Oscar Hammerstein II, b Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse ( 2, 385 in London ; 1, 442 on Broadway ) ( 1960 Tony Award winner )( 1965 film became one of the most popular movie musicals )

* South Pacific, 1949 Broadway, 1951 London, m Richard Rodgers, lb Oscar Hammerstein II, b Joshua Logan ( 1, 925, the second longest-running Broadway musical up to that time ) ( 1950 Tony Award winner )

* " Because of You " ( 1940 song ), a popular song by Arthur Hammerstein and Dudley Wilkinson, recorded by Tony Bennett and others

He eventually turned his attention to directing, and in 1993 he wrote the book for, and directed, the Roundabout Theatre production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein revue A Grand Night for Singing, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical.

The group gave two particularly noteworthy concerts in New York City: once in 2000 at the Zee Gold Bollywood Awards in the Nassau Coliseum, and again in 2002 at the Bollywood Music Awards in the Hammerstein Ballroom.

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

Most of the sources are German or Swiss ; two less clear examples are French ( see Hammerstein ).

Rodgers and Hammerstein originally signed to work with NBC, but CBS approached them, offering the chance to work with Julie Andrews, and the two quickly agreed.

The band also performed two sold-out American shows on Halloween weekend in 2011, playing at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on 28 October, and at the Fox Oakland Theater in Oakland, California on 29 October.

Hammerstein retooled the show before bringing it to New York, replacing everyone but two women and Allen.

* Her earliest publications were " Sappho " and " Hammerstein ", two poems which appeared at Leipzig in 1880.

Gordon MacRae ( March 12, 1921 – January 24, 1986 ) was an American actor and singer, best known for his appearances in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma!

This was followed by leading roles in two major films of Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma!

A formal awards ceremony ( not a banquet ) was held in those two years, with the 2002 awards ceremony being held at Hammerstein Ballroom, with the pre-show banquet held at the Waldorf-Astoria.

They are killed by two Cuban hitmen at the direction of their leader, Major Gonzales ; all three work for von Hammerstein.

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.

Hammerstein had given his two daughters, Stella and Rose Hammerstein, $ 200 a week for financial support after the death of his first wife.

Hammerstein had two sons, Arthur and Willie.

After a two-year hiatus, the band played three shows in 2005 ; two at The Downtown in Farmingdale, New York, with proceeds going to charity, and a spot on The Used's tour at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

" When the two did indeed wed, Crouse's mother took her aside and told her what Oscar Hammerstein had told her when she married Russel Crouse: " A playwright's wife is the only woman who knows how her husband feels when she's having a baby.

Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein, the two main characters, are hugely courageous but after each successful mission they are usually greeted with indifference by the authorities.

Belasco took over management of the theater and completely remodeled it in 1902, only two years after it was constructed as the Theatre Republic by Oscar Hammerstein ( the grandfather of the famous lyricist ).

She performed on January 18, 2009, at We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, singing the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic " You'll Never Walk Alone " with the combined choirs of the United States Naval Academy.

* 1945-State Fair ( adaptation only ; this was the musical version by Rodgers and Hammerstein ) ( Academy Award nomination for Best Adaptation of a Musical Score )

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

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!

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.

Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film.

Rodgers and Hammerstein received a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma!

The Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theater Studies at Columbia University was established in 1981 with a $ 1-million gift from his family.

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

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.

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.

With the help of Oscar Hammerstein, Laurents convinced Bernstein and Sondheim to move " One Hand, One Heart ", which he considered too pristine for the balcony scene, to the scene set in the bridal shop, and as a result " Tonight " was written to replace it.

It's the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical specifically written for an actress ( Gertrude Lawrence ).

It becomes the most financially successful film version of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical up to that time, and the only one to win an acting Oscar ( Yul Brynner wins Best Actor for his performance as the King of Siam ).

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

* A Grand Night for Singing ( 1993 ), Rodgers and Hammerstein revue musical

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.

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.

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.

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.