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Richard Rodgers

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ComposerLyricistBook Writer 1902–1979

Legendary composer who partnered with Lorenz Hart and then Oscar Hammerstein II.

Also credited on45 works

Oklahoma!
Carousel
South Pacific
The King and I
The Sound of Music
Pal Joey
Rex
Dearest Enemy
Garrick Gaieties
Peggy-Ann
A Connecticut Yankee
Jumbo
On Your Toes
Babes in Arms
I’d Rather Be Right
I Married an Angel
The Boys from Syracuse
Too Many Girls
By Jupiter
Allegro
Me and Juliet
Pipe Dream
Flower Drum Song
No Strings
Do I Hear A Waltz?
Flower Drum Song (2002 Revival)
South Pacific (2008 Revival)
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
The King and I (2015 Revival)
Carousel (2018 Revival)
Oklahoma! (2019 Revival)
America's Sweetheart
Betsy
Chee-Chee
Higher and Higher
I Remember Mama
Poor Little Ritz Girl
Present Arms
She’s My Baby
Simple Simon
Spring Is Here
State Fair
The Girl Friend
Two By Two
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway

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In the literature8 passages

  • [213] Cited in Meryle Secrest , Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers , Bloomsbury, London, 2001, p. 287.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • Secrest, Meryle, Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers , Bloomsbury, London, 2001.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • 2 . Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers, “Love, Look Away,” in Flower Drum Song (Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 1958).ebooks/Bell, John & Chicurel, Steven R_/Music Theory for Musical Theatre - John Bell & Steven R. Chicurel.txt
  • 32 Richard Rodgers (1902–79), American composer, best known for his collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein. These creative partnerships resulted in more than thirty Broadway musicals, including several established classics of the American musical theatre.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • 40 Mary Rodgers (b. 1931), American composer and author. She is the daughter of Richard Rodgers. A graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in music, Rodgers had a Broadway hit in 1959 with Once Upon a Mattress. She worked as assistant to the producer of Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. In 1972 she published her first children…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • 26 Bernstein played his own arrangement of Rodgers' “Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me” from By Jupiter as part of the “Celebration of Richard Rodgers” held at the Imperial Theatre on 26 March 1972 in honour of Rodgers' forthcoming 70th birthday (28 June 1972).ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt

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