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After a concert of the works of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Oklahoma!, South Pacific) had set the summer attendance record at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, Variety headlined: "R & H Have Arrived as Longhairs...
Back in Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein II, co-author with the late Jerome Kern of Ol' Man River, was less enthusiastic about the liberties Robeson was taking with his classic. "I have no intention of changing [the lyrics] or permitting anyone else to change them," he said. "I further suggest that Paul write his own songs and leave mine alone...
...original Show Boat. For the next 15 years she did bits or sang in choruses in The Green Pastures, St. Louis Woman, Sing Out, Sweet Land!, etc. She also organized her own choir, for five years led it over the air. It was not until Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein saw her in audition for Talent '48, a private revue put on by the Stage Managers Club for their Broadway friends, that Juanita got headed for that "right role...
Right Voice. Said Rodgers: "What an actress!" Said Hammerstein: "And what a voice!" They signed her to play Bloody Mary. When audiences and critics agreed with Rodgers & Hammerstein, Juanita switched to champagne ("I love the stuff, and then I feel so bloody rich") and began shopping for a 14-room house to replace her apartment on Manhattan's St. Nicholas Terrace. Says she: "I want to make big money because I want to be comfortable myself, as who doesn't, and because there are a lot of people I want to help...
South Pacific has genuine story value, but it is not the integrated work that Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel was. In South Pacific, Rodgers' music provides only a score, not a scaffolding. The score has its very decided merits: there are the bang and the brio of I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair and I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy; there is Some Enchanted Evening, a fit consort for Oklahoma!'s beautiful morning. All in all, however, Rodgers' fine talent seemed far more individual in the days when...