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This time the color is louder and the picture is wider than ever. And to the 1945 score by Rodgers & Hammerstein (It Might as Well Be Spring, It's a Grand Night for Singing), Composer Richard Rodgers has added five new songs. Unfortunately only one of them is worth hearing, a bit of hoggerel that Pop sings to George ("Warm and soft affection lies/ In your teeny-weeny eyes...
...bolster this piffling book, veteran Tunesmith Richard Rodgers, 61, has fashioned a score of romantic witchery-most hauntingly, The Sweetest Sounds. Doubling as his own lyricist after four decades with the late Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers is less assured, more studied than spontaneous, less caught up than caged in his own words...
...before serving in the Army Air Corps as an administrative officer during World War II. Hearing that the corps was anxious to produce a Broadway show to rival This Is the Army, he offered unsolicited help, announcing to the top brass that he could get Moss Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, etc.-none of whom he knew. Then he confronted Hart in Manhattan's Hotel Plaza and told him that General Hap Arnold needed his services. Then he told Arnold to wire Hart. The result was Winged Victory-eventually worth more than $5,000,000 to the Air Corps...
Flower Drum Song (Universal-International), a $4,000,000, 133-minute film version of the Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, offers the U.S. moviegoer roughly the same sensation he would get if he sat down with a single pair of chopsticks before a tun of Sook Muy Dahn Faah Tong...
...musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers and Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady...