Music 2701A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Oscar Hammerstein I, Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin', Marvin Hamlisch
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1930s musical comedy is still produced despite innovations of shows such as show boat and anything goes. Happy, farcial, nonsensical musicals still popular: people wanted light and fun musicals. Composers such as cole porter and irving berlin at heigh of success. Songs from their shows became pop songs of the day played on the radio. Songs not closely integrated with plots: one hit song comes out of it they"ll grab that song and put it in a different show later. One of twentieth-century musical theatre"s most important writing teams. Musicals bright and happy during the depression time. R + h take musicals back to an art form not just a fun bubbly entertainment. 34 tony awards, 15 academy awards for shows in movies. Collaborations: oklahoma! (1943, carousel (1945, south pacific (1949, the king and i (1951, the sound of music (1959) Shared fair success with other people before each other: rodgers and hart.
