MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rouben Mamoulian, Cradle Will Rock, Agnes De Mille
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What happened on broadway between show boat and oklahoma! No one picked up where show boat had let of. Not even kern or hammerstein followed up their success with another notable show. Rise of ilm (1920s), television (1950s), and the hollywood migraion. World war ii (begins 1 september 1939) The end of an era: george gershwin"s last show opened in 1935; he died in 1937, jerome kern"s last show opened in 1939; he died in 1945, lorenz hart"s last show opened in 1942; he died in 1943. 1930s: 5,000 theatres across the us went dark, 1,000 performers were forced to quit, virtually every broadway producer went bankrupt, at least temporarily, 1926-28: Ethel merman: anything goes, annie get your gun. !, south paciic, the sound of music: mary marin: leave. It to me: george abbot, richard rodgers and lorenz hart. Rodgers and hart"s 25-year partnership created such shows as a connecicut yankee, on.
