Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution

Todd S. Purdum, staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses his new book, Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution, with Don Aucoin, chief theater critic for The Boston Globe.

[dmnemaine]

Small correction. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein actually met as young men in the late 1910s. When they decided to become work partners in the early 1940s, they had been acquaintances for many years.

[burnettakiu]

I like the two when their music is sung by the Mormon tabernacle choir and soloists

[carolfraz]

Watching now 1943 reconstruction of original Oklahoma production. by University of NC. Produced in 2015