UNAPPRECIATED MASTERPIECE OR ABJECT FAILURE? Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein began the Golden Era of Broadway with two musicals that reimagined the previous form of musical comedies " a cluster of songs packaged together by a plot " by using songs to heighten and embellish a striking narrative. After creating Oklahoma! (1943) and Carousel (1945), [...]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:55AM on December 1, 2011