Transcript Broadway Musical Rodgers and Hammerstein Week 6

Broadway Musical
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Week 7
段馨君 Iris Hsin-chun Tuan
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences
NCTU
• When Cole Porter
was asked to name
the most profound
change in musical
comedy during his
lifetime, he replied,
“Rodgers and
Hammerstein.”
Cole Porter
Rodgers and
Hammerstein
• Produced nine musical
playsOklahoma!(1943),
Carousel(1945), Allegro
Fuliet(1953), Pipe
Dream(1955), Flower
Drum Song(1958),and
The sound of
music(1959)-the film
State Fair(1945),and
the television musical
Cinderella(1975).
Hammerstein productions (Me and Julietand
Pipe Dream) was never filmed.
Hammerstein before Rodgers
• Regarding successes,
Hammerstein was fond
that he was born into
the theatrical world
with two gold spoons
in his mouth.
A revised version of Allegro, re-written by Joe DiPietro,
who was a protege of James Hammerstein, was
produced at the Signature Theatre (Arlington, Virginia)
in January 2004. This version cut the musical in size
and scale. The cast was cut with some characters
being combined; the original, lavish orchestrations
were simplified.
• One spoons being
Uncle Arthur
Hammerstein, who
took him into his
producing
organization, and the
other being Otto
Harbach, who
accepted him as
collaborator.
• His aims of
integrating
elements of
musical comedy
with opera.
Chop Suey - Flower Drum Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPwiqmv6Xeo&feature=related
• For these operettas,
Hammerstein wrote the
lyrics for the songs after
the music.
• In his “Note” to Lyric he
explained that it was
easier to write a lyric to
fit a composer’s melody
rather than force some
Middle European or
Viennese composer.
• By 1927,
Hammerstein had
achieved the
technical skill ,this
skill found its fullest
expression in Show
Boat.
Show Boat- Soundtrack details .
• Show Boat
reflected Oscar
Hammerstein’s
capacity to reject
formula in the
search for an adult
musical theater
form.
• Here was plot, situation,
and characterization
that dared be
believable. At the
forefront was the
author’s concern for
the poor southern
Negro.
Pictured is a scene from Livent's epic
production of Show Boat directed by
Harold Prince. "The Wedding
Celebration" with L-R Dan Tullis, Jr as
Joe, Patti Cohenour as Magnolia,Hugh
Panaro as Ravenal, John McMartin as
Cap'n Andy, Cloris Leachman as Parthy
andMichael Fletcher as the Sheriff.
Show Boat (1936) - Part 1/16: "Cotton Blossom"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8oJPr-NBg
Rodgers before Hammerstein
• By age six, Rodgers had
taught himself to play the
piano with both hands.
• Since his parents were piano
l both proud and delighted
with that feat, Rodgers was
given piano lessons and
encouraged from the start to
seek a career in music.
• The Princess Theatre
Shows- Nobody Home;
Very Good, Eddie; Oh,
Boy!; Oh, Lady! Lady!and other work from
the same period,
Leave It To Fane, were
fresh, new and
represented a genre
of American musical.
Randy Rogel and Alison Walla in Very
Good Eddie.
• When Rodgers left
119th Street that
afternoon he had
acquired, in his own
words, “a career, a
partner, a best friendand a source of
permanent irritation.”
Lorenz Hart
• Lorenz "Larry" Milton
Hart (May 2, 1895 –
November 22, 1943)
was the lyricist half of
the famed Broadway
songwriting team Rodge
rs and Hart.
Lorenz Hart (right)
with Richard Rodgers in 1936.
• Some of his more famous lyrics include "Blue
Moon," "Mountain Greenery," "The Lady Is a
Tramp," "Manhattan," "Where or When,"
"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered,"
"Falling in Love with Love," "I'll Tell The Man In
The Street," "My Funny Valentine," and "Isn't
It Romantic?"
Blue Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3t0cBC6g
5U&feature=related
• Rodgers and Hart teamed a
final time in the fall of 1943
for a revival of A Connecticut
Yankee. Hart had taken off
the night of the opening and
was gone for two days.
• After Hart's death, Rodgers
collaborated with Oscar
Hammerstein, with whom
earlier that year he had
created the hit
musical Oklahoma!.
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga - The Lady Is
A Tramp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPA
mDULCVrU
Ella Fitzgerald: The Lady Is a Tramp (Rodgers /
Hart, 1937) - Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQkIccSW4U
Hammerstein
• Oscar Greeley
Clendenning
Hammerstein II ( July 12,
1895 – August 23, 1960)
was an American
librettist, theatrical
producer, and theatre
director of musicals for
almost forty years.
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II
• Hammerstein won
eight Tony Awards and
was twice awarded
an Academy Award for
Best Original Song. Many
of his songs are standard
repertoire for singers
and jazz musicians. He
co-wrote 850 songs.
South Pacific - I'm Gonna Wash That Man
Right Out Of My Hair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIAP364nx
Eo&feature=related
• Hammerstein was
the lyricist and playwright
in his partnerships; his
collaborators wrote the
music.
• Hammerstein collaborated
with composers Jerome
Kern, Vincent
Youmans, Rudolf
Friml and Sigmund
Romberg, but his most
famous collaboration was
with Richard Rodgers.
Rogers and Hammerstein For sixteen
years the songwriting team of
Richard .