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James Hammerstein

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Director 1931–1999

James Blanchard Hammerstein (March 23, 1931 – January 7, 1999) was an American theatre director and producer.

Also credited on1 work

State Fair

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In the literature8 passages

  • JAMES HAMMERSTEIN has been a stage manager, director, producer, and president of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. The son of Oscar Hammerstein II and a director of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, he was the director of State Fair.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • JAMES HAMMERSTEIN: State Fair is an audience show with a very simple story and simple characters. We never planned to bring it to New York, and then when we did, we expected to get killed because it was old-fashioned, not high tech at all. We couldn’t afford spectacle. That would cost six million; we were a two-million-dollar show.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • JAMES HAMMERSTEIN: When Richard Rodgers linked up with Oscar Hammerstein II, the combination was stupendous. My father was a perfectionist. Richard Rodgers was more than a composer; he comes close to being the best musical dramatist ever going.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • JAMES HAMMERSTEIN: Dad was terribly well balanced. We lived a very normal family life in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman would come by, but not very often. Dad didn’t like to stay up late.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • JAMES HAMMERSTEIN: The golden age of American musical theater started with Oklahoma! My feeling is that everyone was trying to write Oklahoma! , from Victor Herbert on. And when Rodgers and Hammerstein finally did, they didn’t so much invent anything as throw out a lot of baggage. It became a kind of a guide to what you don’t have to do a…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • JAMES HAMMERSTEIN : The show is very seductive, slowly seductive. There’s no number that stops the show, but by the second act there’s a purple haze over the audience.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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