Oscar Hammerstein and Alan Jay Lerner brought the musical theater to an artistic peak that remains unsurpassed. From Show Boat, Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music to Brigadoon, My Fair Lady ...

Show Boat tells a powerful story of freedom ... with lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II.

A preeminent artist-activist of the mid-twentieth century, his banishment by the studios lasted longer than any other performer of the blacklist era — twenty-five years, ending only with his death.

Adaptation of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II operetta about the daughter of a showboat captain, who is swept off her feet by a dashing gambler and ultimately becomes the star of the ...

On April 17, 1929, an early version of Show Boat was released. This was not based on the successful Florenz Ziegfeld Jr-produced Broadway musical, but on the 1926 Edna Ferber novel. However, many of ...

Shall we dance? That's the question posed by a new production of The King and I, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's classic musical about East meeting West. The show, about a 19th Century ...

Carmen, a factory worker, falls in love with a soldier. Show more Bizet's evocative music blends with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II in this drama, set in mid-20th-century USA for an African ...

and “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” but she is best ... had a one-day opportunity to audition for lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. It was the same day she was scheduled for her ...

Third version of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical about Mississippi riverboat life chronicles the problematic romance between the beautiful daughter of the ship's captain and a ...

and “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” but she is best ... had a one-day opportunity to audition for lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. It was the same day she was scheduled for her ...