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...King and I. Charming Rodgers & Hammerstein period musical, with Gertrude Lawrence; how the King of Siam learned to govern from a governess (TIME, April...
Loneliness of Evening and My Girl Back Home (Mary Martin; Columbia). A pair of wistful ballads that Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't consider quite bright enough for South Pacific. With Mary Martin singing them, lots of people will wonder how they could have been left...
...Manhattan, Alice Hammerstein, 30, daughter of Musical Comedy Writer Oscar Hammerstein II, was busy writing the lyrics for a musical which will be produced next year. Her father was "very pleased," she said. "He has always wanted anything that will make me happy. Except when I wanted to be a veterinarian. He couldn't understand that...
Music In the Air (music by Jerome Kern; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd; produced by Reginald Hammerstein) still has what it had when first produced in 1932-an extremely engaging Jerome Kern score. It no longer has very much else. Even in 1932, it employed old-fashioned European operetta largely as a model, if sometimes as a butt; its best chance in revival was to capture the nostalgic charm of an unabashed period piece. But as revived, the show as badly lacks bouquet as the production lacks style...
With such Kern favorites as I've Told Every Little Star, In Egern on the Tegern See, The Song Is You, there is no want of melody. Hammerstein's book tells how two Swiss villagers-a father who writes songs and a daughter who sings them-go to Zurich and almost have a fluke success at the expense of professional theatrical people. The story lets Hammerstein make fun of theatrical temperament while showing the ultimate fate of those who lack it. But it plods as both story and satire, and a name cast-Jane Pickens, Charles Winninger, Dennis...