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Diadems & Dunce Caps. Oscar Hammerstein II was almost mythically affluent, with a producer's or librettist's haul from five smash hits: Oklahoma!, Carousel...
Annie Get Your Gun (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields; produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II) is a great big follow-the-formula, fetch-the-crowd musical. It bothers with nothing artistic or bizarre. It involves almost as many people as were needed to build the Pyramids, and works the most important of them almost as hard. Star, whip and wheelhorse of Annie is Ethel Merman...
...prewar popular songs, which were languidly minor key and stickily sentimental, Song of the Apple was as sprightly as a hit from a U.S. college musical. It was written for Japan's first postwar movie, Soyokaze (Gentle Breeze), by Hachiro Sato and Tadashi Manjome, the Rodgers & Hammerstein of Japan's Tin Pan Alley. Lyricist Sato, a paunchy little Jap with a luxuriant ebony mustache, is Japan's Edgar Guest, turns out 50 homey verses a month for newspapers and radio. He wrote Song of the Apple before breakfast one morning in bed, after deciding that most Japanese...
Carousel. Richard Rodgers' & Oscar Hammerstein II's charming New England-in-the-'70s musical adaptation of Liliom (TIME, April...
Such spoofing is one way of placating his pet peeves, says Abe. But the "good things, like Oscar Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan and Christmas carols" he cannot kid. That still leaves him plenty of subjects...