His first successful musical was entitled Wildflower ; Hammerstein and Otto Harbach wrote the libretto and lyrics and Vincent Youmans composed the music.
Beginning in , this simple musical ran over a year because "simple-minded story," according to Stanley Green. Wildflower was an instant success due to the amazing singing, Italian setting, and unique inclusion of operetta.. Through collaborations with these composers Hammerstein won fame and popularity for shows like Rose-Marie , Desert Song , and New Moon. Hammerstein and Kern paired up and wrote several successful musicals over the next decade; the most famous was Show Boat.
The dramatic content was strong, and the music gave it a deeper meaning. Hammerstein was ecstatic. Click here to hear a radio essay about Show Boat , part of National Public Radio's series on the most important musical works of the twentieth century. The file requires Real Player to run. Hammerstein spent much of his time in Hollywood trying to contract various studios, but found he did not work well with the time constraints of movie productions.
The last musical he worked on with Kern was Carmen Jones. According to the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, this was a "highly-acclaimed all-black revision of Georges Bizet's tragic opera Carmen. Shortly after the libretto for Carmen Jones , another Columbia University alumnus, Richard Rodgers, contacted Hammerstein and asked to collaborate with him on a musical adaptation of Lynn Riggs's book Green Grow the Lilacs.
Hammerstein was eager to begin his work with Rodgers. Interestingly, Hammerstein wrote most of the lyrics before Rodgers wrote the score, which is the reverse of how musicals are normally written. Their adaptation was entitled Oklahoma! The musical ran for 2, performances in its first Broadway run. This partnership of Rodgers and Hammerstein was born in , and they "became the most successful team in the entire history of the thatre, as well as the most influential.
Click here to hear a radio essay about Oklahoma! They wrote one musical specifically for cinema, State Fair , and one for television, Cinderella. The duo received many awards for South Pacific when it won the Pulitzer Prize in We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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When he had finished the libretto for Carmen Jones, Hammerstein was contacted by an old Columbia acquaintance, Richard Rodgers, whose partnership with Lorenz Hart had recently dissolved. Hammerstein had also read the play, and the two began work on the musical, tentatively titled Away We Go.
Rodgers and Hammerstein worked toward the concept of the integrated musical, with Hammerstein writing most of the lyrics before Rodgers wrote the score, the reverse of the normal process. When the musical, retitled Oklahoma, opened on Broadway on March 31, , it was an enormous success, both critically and popularly. Oklahoma ran for 2, performances in its initial Broadway engagement, and in it received a special Pulitzer Prize. The team of Rodgers and Hammerstein was a success. They produced their own work and promising works by other artists and at one time had five of the highest grossing shows running at the same time on Broadway.
South Pacific won the Pulitzer Prize in Most of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals have been adapted for the screen, with the greatest success going to Oklahoma and The Sound of Music. Hammerstein's talents as a lyricist and librettist are undeniable. Countless productions of his musicals on Broadway, on tour, and in professional, amateur, and academic theaters around the world testify to the remarkable quality of his work. Hammerstein's influence on the next generation of lyricists and librettists was also direct and observable.
Sondheim was a close friend of the Hammerstein family from childhood and attributed his success in theater directly to Hammerstein's influence and guidance. On September 1, , at 9 P.
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