# Oscar Hammerstein Ii

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CAREFUL THE SPELL YOU CAST with author BEN FRANCIS

My guest on this episode is Ben Francis, author of the very compelling book titled Careful the Spell You Cast — How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the American Musical. Sondheim is without a doubt one of the most studied, examined, and analyzed Broadway creators of all time. In fact, we …

HOW SONDHEIM EXTENDED THE RANGE OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL with BEN FRANCIS, part 3

This is the third and final part of my conversation with Ben Francis whose amazingly compelling new book is titled Careful the Spell You Cast — How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the American Musical. Just like the book, our discussion has been structured around Sondheim’s collaborators. I…

Charlie Haden Quartet West "The Folks Who Live On The Hill" (w/out vocals)

Charlie Haden Quartet West’s The Art Of The Song was released in 1999 on Verve France. It was the Quartet’s sixth album and the first to feature contemporary vocalists. Pianist Alan Broadbent’s orchestral arrangement for their version of the song “Lonely Town” won a Grammy award. “The Folks Who Liv…

Christopher Holmes and Larry Gee

In this Highway 89 episode Christopher Holmes (baritone) and Larry Gee (piano) regale us with Rodgers and Hammerstein show tunes!  In the early 1940s Richard Rodgers was trying to find someone to turn “Green Grow the Lilacs” into a musical with him. He asked around. He asked Lorenz Hart (who he’d …

444 - Oscar Boyson on Directing Our Hero, Balthazar, Working with The Neistat Brothers, Empathy Machines vs. Validation Machines, and Failing in Public

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Kate Loprest, "The Sound of Music"

(HOUSTON, TX) — Memorial Hermann Broadway at the Hobby Center announces tickets for THE SOUND OF MUSIC will go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 26 at 10AM. Produced by Concord Theatricals and NETworks Presentations, this critically acclaimed North American tour honors the 65th annivers…

South Pacific

Send us Fan Mail South Pacific: Tropical Romance, Opera Legends & "Carefully Taught" Truths "Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger..." Pack your sunhats and step onto the golden sands of the 1940s Pacific! This week on Musical Lyrical Lingo, we are setting sail for the lush, tropical parad…

What You Don't Know About "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise"

In Episode 6, we trace the remarkable transformation of "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" — from a 1928 Broadway operetta tango into a cornerstone of modern jazz. Saxophonist Rich Cohen joins us to share gig stories and musical influences, then Eric Baker faces our three-question quiz covering the …

Lux Radio Theatre - "Show Boat" (Old Time Radio, 1952)

Lux Radio Theatre presents “Show Boat,” episode 777, originally broadcast on February 11, 1952. This CBS adaptation draws on MGM’s 1951 film of the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II musical, itself based on Edna Ferber’s novel.Aboard the Mississippi River show boat Cotton Blossom, Cap’n Andy Haw…