When in 1958 he directed Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play Flower Drum Song.

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.

** Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I opens on Broadway and runs for 3 years.

* March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, the team's only musical written especially for television, is telecast live and in color by CBS, starring Julie Andrews in the title role.

* April 19 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, a musical play based on Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, opens on Broadway and becomes their second long-running stage classic.

* March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

* February 16 – Only a little more than four months after the release of the 70mm version of Oklahoma !, the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, is released in Cinemascope 55.

** The film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, is released only a few months after the film version of R & H's Carousel.

* November 23 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

* February 22 – A new, revised, color production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella airs on CBS.

* October 11 – 70-mm film for projection is introduced with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical film, Oklahoma!

In 2001, she starred in a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical South Pacific.

They are: George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing ( 1932 ) ¹, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific ( 1950 ), Bock & Harnick's Fiorello!

In 1958, Marsden played the role of the Fairy Godmother, in the production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at the London Coliseum with Tommy Steele, Kenneth Williams, Yana and Jimmy Edwards.

After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers wrote both words and music for his first new Broadway project No Strings ( 1962, which earned two Tony Awards ).

Leonowens's experiences in Siam were fictionalised in Margaret Landon's 1944 bestselling novel Anna and the King of Siam and in various films and television miniseries based on the book, most notably Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical The King and I.

Inspired by Rodgers and Hammerstein's successful collaborations Oklahoma!

One " Ed Sullivan Show " was broadcast on August 22, 1954 from the new studio, but it was mostly used for one-time-only specials such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's March 31, 1957 " Cinderella.

In 1943, American Decca ushered in the age of the original cast album in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma !, performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on Broadway, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal arrangements.

Her engagement led to her own star vehicle, successful UPN sitcom Moesha in 1996, and resulted in roles in the 1998 horror sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and the TV films Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella ( 1997 ) and Double Platinum ( 1999 ), two of television's best-rated special programs.

Valerie Hobson's last starring role was in the original London production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play The King and I which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on October 8, 1953.

Gerry and the Pacemakers ' next two singles, Murray's " I Like It " and Rodgers and Hammerstein's " You'll Never Walk Alone ", both also reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, the latter recorded instead of the Beatles ' " Hello Little Girl ", which went on to become the first hit for the Fourmost.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

His music-theatre work includes the texts for Philip Glass ' 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, The Voyage, and The Sound of a Voice, the book for Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida ( co-written by Linda Woolverton and Robert Falls ), the Walt Disney Company's theatrical version of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan ( with music and lyrics by Phil Collins ), the libretti for Bright Sheng's The Silver River, Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar, Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland ( libretto co-written by Chin ), and Howard Shore's The Fly as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song.

When Jerome Kern declined Hammerstein's offer to work on such a project and Hart refused Rodgers ' offer to do the same, Rodgers and Hammerstein began their first collaboration.

In 1997, Norwood was hand-picked by executive producer Whitney Houston to play the title character in Rodgers and Hammerstein ’ s television version of Cinderella featuring a multi-cultural cast that also included Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, and Houston.

* 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.

In 1997, Ebb reworked lyrics to Richard Rodgers ' melody for the television production of Cinderella.

Based on the fairytale character and story of Cinderella, Rodgers and Hammerstein worked together to create their first collaborative effort written for television.

She also performed the role of the Queen in Rodgers & Hammerstein's " Cinderella " at New York City Opera.

She has continued to appear in theatrical roles, such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.

He also orchestrated the score for the original television broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, in 1957.

Other films include Wild River ( 1960 ), Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella ( 1965 ), and I Love You, Alice B. Toklas ( 1968 ).

Having failed to obtain the role of Liesl in the film version of The Sound of Music, Warren's first major television success was in the title role of Rodgers and Hammerstein's television special Cinderella in 1965.

Cinderella is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for television.

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.

* Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, from the PBS Great Performances website

The group was created to promote Morning Musume's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, titled.

As a new medium, television introduced many innovative programming concepts, and prime time television drama showcased both original and classic productions, including the first telecasts of Walt Disney's programs, as well as the first telecasts of Mary Martin in Peter Pan, MGM's classic The Wizard of Oz and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.

She played the Fairy Godmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein's original Cinderella broadcast in 1957.

* Great Performances: Rodgers and Hammerstein's ' Cinderella ( 2004 ) ( TV series )

In December 1958, Jimmy Edwards played the King in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at the London Coliseum with Kenneth Williams, Tommy Steele, Yana and Betty Marsden.

However, CBS color broadcasts decreased in frequency until the following decade, when the 1964 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella was recorded.