By Samuel L. Leiter In 1947, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were the newly anointed kings of Broadway musicals, having created two remarkable blockbusters, Oklahoma! (1943) and Carousel (1945), in quick succession. Brimming with confidence, they turned away from material based on other people's plays and came up with something more personal, Allegro, a […]
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:00AM on November 20, 2014