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.

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.

A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein she originated many leading roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music.

Rodgers also wrote both the words and music for two new songs used in the film version of " The Sound of Music ".

*" Edelweiss ", " Ländler " ( Rodgers ' adaption of a traditional Austrian folk dance tune ), and " Do-Re-Mi ", all from The Sound of Music, frequently go unrecognized as Rodgers ' tunes.

It has since been performed by artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Clodagh Rodgers, and Reigning Sound and most famously by Lena Horne and Billie Holiday.

A few of the hundreds of hours of rehearsal tapes featuring Toscanini, residing in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive of Recorded Sound, a division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Fox also produced Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, beginning with the musical version of State Fair in 1945, and continuing years later with Carousel in 1956, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.

The biggest boost to the studio's fortunes came from the tremendous success of The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), an expensive and handsomely produced adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, which became one of the all-time greatest box office hits.

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.

The Sound of Music, Rodgers and Hammerstein's last work together, told the story of the von Trapp family.

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.

** Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers ( composers ), Mary Martin & the original cast for The Sound of Music

In 1995, Roth returned with an adult lounge act, performing largely in Las Vegas casinos, with a brass band that featured Nile Rodgers, Edgar Winter, and members of the Miami Sound Machine.

Her scores and recordings were given to the Music Division and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, both divisions of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Examples may be found in the song Maria from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music, in which the How do you solve a problem like Maria?

* The song " Edelweiss ", which is about the flower, is from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1959 musical The Sound of Music, which takes place in Salzburg, Austria before World War II.

* Vincent Persichetti Collection, the composer's personal collection of recordings, at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

# Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of Music ( 1959 )

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 connection between film and cylinder was not made until 1998, when Loughney and Edison NHS sound recordings curator Jerry Fabris arranged for the cylinder to be repaired and its contents recovered at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive of Recorded Sound in New York.

The Sound of Their Music: The Story of Rodgers & Hammerstein.

In Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music as Captain Von Trapp sings the song Something Good they both sing the line " Nothing comes from nothing nothing ever could " in reference to their childhood's influence on their relationship.

He produced the original Broadway stage productions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and The Sound of Music.