Posts Tagged ‘Oscar Hammerstein II’
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Sunday, October 22nd, 2023
Musical Theatre West’s splendiferously performed revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound Of Music makes it abundantly clear why the 1959 Broadway smash is a bona fide musical theater classic.
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OKLAHOMA!
Friday, September 16th, 2022
Forget every Oklahoma! you’ve ever seen. Forget everything you’ve ever heard or said or thought about the 79-year-old classic. Director Daniel Fish’s radically revisionist revival of the Broadway musical that reinvented the genre back in 1943 now feels every bit as revolutionary in 2022 as Rent did in 1994, Spring Awakening in 2006, and Hamilton just a handful of years back.
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PIPE DREAM
Tuesday, September 19th, 2017Once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to discover a “brand new” Rodgers & Hammerstein musical happen about once in lifetime, which is why those who got to discover the almost-never-produced Pipe Dream this past Sunday, the first offering in the final season of Musical Theatre West’s Reiner Reading Series, can count themselves among the luckiest people in the world.
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RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
A fresh new book by Douglas Carter Beane breathes exciting new life into a spectacular new production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, now delighting audiences of all ages (and I do mean of all ages) at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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