How Rodgers & Hammerstein Revolutionized Broadway
Fresh Air’s Terry Gross interviews Todd Purdum about his new book, Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution. Before there was Rodgers& Hammerstein there was Rodgers & Hart. When a dissipated lyricist Lorenz Hart could no longer work, composer Richard Rodgers teamed with Oscar Hammerstein. Their first play, Oklahoma!, which opened on Broadway in 1943 and […]