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2 unusual facts about Richard Rodgers


Richard H. Hoffmann

Once composer Richard Rodgers asked Hoffmann to visit his friend Lorenz Hart who was having problems with alcoholism and who had a strong aversion to being treated by psychiatrists.

The Valiant Years

Richard Rodgers won an Emmy award in 1962 for the music he wrote for the programme.


Alfredo Antonini

His collaboration with Julie Andrews, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II in a production of Cinderella for CBS television was critically acclaimed in 1957 and was telecast live to an audience of 107 million people.

Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms is a 1937 musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart.

Concept musical

There are three major contenders for the title of first concept (even though the term "concept musical" hadn't been coined when any of them played): Lady in the Dark (1941) by Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin, and Moss Hart; Allegro (1947) by Rodgers and Hammerstein; and Love Life (1948) by Weill and Alan Jay Lerner.

Donna McKechnie

In 1996, she was awarded the Fred Astaire Award for Best Female Dancer for her performance in a Broadway adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's film State Fair.

Girl at Her Volcano

# "My Funny Valentine" (Live) (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:51 - Recorded at The Roxy, L.A., April 18, 1982 - Michael Ruff (piano)

I've Got Five Dollars

"I've Got Five Dollars" is a 1931 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical America's Sweetheart (1931) where it was introduced by Harriette Lake (a/k/a/ Ann Sothern) and Jack Whiting.

In the Time Before Llamas

#"Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)" (5:44), written by Michael Timmins, Margo Timmins, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

J.P. Viernes

The first professional theatre production that Viernes was a part of was a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific at the Coastal Repertory Theater in Half Moon Bay, California.

John Epperson

In Winter 2004, Epperson (in a different drag role) played the role of the Wicked Stepmother in the New York City Opera's revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella in a cast with Eartha Kitt, Dick van Patten and fellow Wigstock veteran Renée Taylor.

Mount Morris Park Historic District

"Doctor's Row" comprises the nearby stretch of West 122nd Street, Mount Morris Park West and Malcolm X Boulevard; one of the doctors of "Doctor's Row" was the father of the composer Richard Rodgers.

Power of the Hunter

  • "Oh, What A Beautiful Morning" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 0:51

    The Club Is Alive

    Its lyrics sample "The Sound of Music", composed by Richard Rodgers, to lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and originally performed by Mary Martin in the stage musical of the same name, but was later popularised by Julie Andrews in the 1965 film.


    see also

    Fred Alley

    His collaboration on the musical The Spitfire Grill with composer James Valcq won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' prestigious Richard Rodgers Production Award for 2001.

    Oscar Hammerstein

    Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), Broadway lyricist, songwriting partner of Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers