While my particular tastes in music run far more toward country and rock, this blog has potential to reach a number of women, the traditional audience for musical theater. In addition, most of us have seen at least parts of most of these musicals in their movie versions on TV. Having said all that, this is a close as I ever intend to get to watching a Hallmark Channel movie!
Questions of the Week
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Before teaming up, Richard Rodgers had collaborated for more than two decades with another lyricist – who?
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Hammerstein previously collaborated with another composer, including writing the 1927 classic Show Boat. Who was Oscar Hammerstein’s previous writing partner?
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What was Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first Broadway musical?
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The team’s second musical was a fantasy about a dead man who tells Heaven’s gatekeeper his life story to return to earth to help his widow and their child he never met. The musical’s one-word name represents the amusement park ride where he met his wife. What is it?
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This musical was the only score they ever wrote directly for film and won them their only Oscar. It finally became a Broadway play in1996. It’s about an Iowa farm family, agriculture competition, and romance. What is this musical’s two-word title?
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South Pacific won the team and co-writer Joshua Logan the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950. On the short stories of which writer was South Pacific based?
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The team’s next major success was the story of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. It made Yul Brynner a star and later won him an Oscar. What is the play’s name?
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Their only collaborative effort for television was in 1957 and based on a classic fairy tale about a mistreated stepdaughter Walt Disney once animated. What is the one-word name of the title character?
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A young Chinese woman illegally arrives in America for an arranged marriage with a wealthy young Chinese-American man. He’s already in love with a nightclub dancer until he falls in love with this woman that his parents chose for him. What is the play’s three-word title?
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's last work together was The Sound of Music, the story of the Austrian Von Trapp family. How many Von Trapp children did the musical portray?
Answers of the Week
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Lorenz Hart 2. Jerome Kern 3. Oklahoma! 4. Carousel 5. State Fair 6. James Michenor 7. The King and I 8. Cinderella 9. Flower Drum Song 10. Seven)