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Title: The Sound of Their Music : The Story of Rodgers and HammersteinRevised and Updated by Frederick Nolan ISBN: 1-55783-473-3 Publisher: Applause Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fascinating, charming double bio
Comment: Frederick Nolan tells the story of Rodgers and Hammerstein both as a team and as separate people. Indeed there is a good deal of space allotted to their careers BEFORE they ever worked together. But after they team up the narrative becomes more lively and a real page turner, at least partly because Nolan's style is graceful and charming in itself. He seems to have read everything written about them, even going so far as to watch TV kinescopes of them from the 1950s, and he talked to many people who knew them, worked with them.
It's the backstage stories that make the book sing. Practically every page has a at least one fascinating anecdote. And he doesn't sugar-coat their personalities--Rodgers's curtness, even cruelty, and Hammerstein's insecurity, tendency to swallow his pride.
It's hard to read the book without singing to yourself. My God, what songs these two wrote! But more than that, what dramatists they were; they broke convention again and again and mostly successfully.
Pull out your recordings of Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific and start reading!
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Title: Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II by Hugh Fordin, Stephen Sondheim ISBN: 0306806681 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Musical Stages: An Autobiography by Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers ISBN: 0306811340 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Colored Lights : Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz by John Kander, Fred Ebb, Greg Lawrence, Liza Minnelli ISBN: 057121133X Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 05 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title:Avenue Q (Original Cast Recording) ASIN: B0000BZK1R Publisher: Rca Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.49 |
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Title: Creating a Role by Constantine Stanislavski, Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, Constantin Stanislavski, Hermine I. Popper ISBN: 0878309810 Publisher: Theatre Arts Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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