Rodgers and Hammerstein

Oscar Hammerstein II was born in NY City.
He went to
Columbia Law School.

Richard Rogers was born in Queens, NY.
Rogers went to Columbia University.

Rogers

• Rogers had an older brother named Mortimer
• He married a woman named Mamie
• His second wife was named Dorothy
• They have two daughters named Mary and Linda 

Hammerstein

• Hammerstein's family worked in theater
• His father, Oscar Hammerstein I, was an opera impresario
• Went to Columbia Law School
• His passion for theater eventually took over his interest in law
• Married Myra Finn. They had two children, named William and Alice

Influential events in Rogers life

• He learned to Play the piano as a toddler
• impressed his future partner Lorenz Hart by playing melodies on the piano
• Started to collaborate with Hammerstein in 1942
• He won Tony's, Grammy's, Emmy's, Oscar's, and two Pulitzer Prizes

Influential events in Hammerstein's life

• Hammerstein acted in Columbia's Varsity Shows, which Rogers wrote
• His father and grandfather were very big in theater and influenced him 
• In 1919, he wrote his own play, called The Light
• Teamed up with Jerome Kern to write Showboat in 1925
• Wrote his first play in 1919

Richard Rogers died In New York, on Dec 30th, 1979

Oscar Hammerstein died of cancer in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on August 23rd, 1960

R&H major accomplishments

• Wrote their first play, Oklahoma, in 1943
• Wrote an adaptation of Cinderella which was made into a movie

Current comtemporary Comparisons

• Walt Disney, although he was a competition
• Warner brothers

Contributions to Industry

• They wrote famous broadway musicals
• Won many awards

http://www.biography.com/people/richard-rodgers-37431/videos/richard-rodger...

Rogers and Hammerstein pioneered the Broadway scene with Classic musicals that are still being shown today

Resources

• www.google.com
• www.biography.com
• www.rnh.com
• www.pbs.com

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