Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz first tried, and then Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II attempted, but gave up and Hammerstein told Lerner " Pygmalion had no subplot ".

Past writers and directors have included Columbians Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, I. A. L.

Many Columbia alumni have gone on to renowned careers in the arts, such as the composers Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart, and Art Garfunkel.

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.

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

The adaptation became the first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, entitled Oklahoma !, which opened on Broadway in 1943.

'" After Oklahoma !, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and South Pacific.

According to Richard Kislan, " The shows of Rodgers and Hammerstein were the product of sincerity.

" According to Marc Bauch, " The Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are romantic musical plays.

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.

In 1950, the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award " in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York.

Rodgers and Hammerstein received a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma!

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

It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.

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

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

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 ).

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

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

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.

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

Calbraith Perry Rodgers began the flight on 17 September 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay NY.

As 1980 began, the Brewers and their fans were optimistic about becoming pennant winners, but the team scuffled during the season, partially due to manager George Bamberger suffering a heart attack and having to be replaced by Buck Rodgers.

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.

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 ).

Rodgers then began collaborating with Oscar Hammerstein II.

Captain Rayment slowly moved the throttle forward, as agreed, and released the brakes ; the plane began to accelerate, and radio officer Bill Rodgers radioed the control tower with the message " Zulu Uniform rolling ".

Gary Rodgers took over management of the group, and they began calling themselves ' Bobby Lester's Moonglows ' ( sometimes also referred to as ' Gary Rodgers ' Moonglows ').

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.

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.

According to a black musician who lived near Rodgers in Mississippi, everyone, both black and white alike, began to copy Rodgers: " Every one who could pick a guitar started yodeling like Rodgers.

By the time the project began to jell, however, Hammerstein had died, and Stephen Sondheim was asked by Laurents and Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers ' daughter, to write the lyrics.

Several years before Rodgers retired from the Board of Naval Commissioners his health began to decline, it is believed from a case of cholera.

Soon his already frail condition began to rapidly worsen and when it was certain his death was imminent his wife was sent for, but Rodgers had already lapsed into unconsciousness by the time she arrived at his bedside.

After a short marriage which ended in 1992, Griffin began playing in Boston coffee houses, and was scouted by A & M Records, who signed Griffin on the strength of her demo tape ; however A & M thought it to be overproduced, so Nile Rodgers and A & M instead released a stripped-down reworking of her demo tape, as an album called Living with Ghosts.

Rodgers sold millions of records in the 1930s During this period, hillbilly music became big business, and musicians began endorsing products as well as adding new instruments, like fiddles, banjos, mandolins and Hawaiian steel guitar.

Irish entertainer June Rodgers starred in the Gaiety pantomime for years, until she began to headline the equally established Olympia Theatre panto.

The foundation began on September 22, 2001, when Rodgers and Tommy Boy Music president Tom Silverman brought 200 musicians, celebrities, and personalities together in New York City and Los Angeles to re-record Rodgers ' song " We Are Family " ( best known in its 1979 hit version performed by Sister Sledge ) to start the healing process after the events of September 11.