- Introduction
- Rodgers & Hart, 1919-1943
- The Age of Rodgers and Hart Ethan Mordden
- “My Heart Stood Still” Gerald Mast, Richard Rodgers, Philip Furia, Alec Wilder, Allen Forte
- From Letters to Dorothy, 1925-37 and A Personal Book Dorothy Rodgers
- Chee-Chee, The Castration Musical Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
- Cover Story: “The Boys from Columbia” Time Magazine
- “Words and Music: Rodgers and Hart” Margaret Case Harriman
- Pal Joey: Drawing “Sweet Water from a Foul Well”
- “Not a Few of His Songs Were Left on the Cutting Room Floor” Stanley Green
- Remembering Rodgers and Hart Oscar Hammerstein
- Rodgers & Hammerstein, 1943-1960
- “As Corny as Kansas in August, As Restless as a Willow in a Windstorm” Gerald Mast
- “The Work That Changed the Form” Ethan Mordden
- The Theatre Guild Presents Oklahoma! and Carousel Lawrence Langner
- “R. and H.” Agnes de Mille
- “What Is a Richard Rodgers?” Joshua Logan
- “There’s Hope for Everyone” Mary Martin
- The Art of Adaptation Lehman Engel
- Rethinking Pal Joey Brooks Atkinson
- “The American Musical” Eric Bentley
- “The Musical Stage” George Jean Nathan
- “Moving in the Direction of Opera” Leonard Bernstein
- A Few Favourite Things about Rodgers with Hammerstein Alec Wilder
- “The Nicest Guys in Show Business” Cleveland Amory
- “Introduction” to Richard Rodgers David Ewen
- Rodgers after Hammerstein, 1960-1979
- “You Can’t Force It” Winthrop Sargeant
- “Rodgers Without Hammerstein” Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb
- “Richard Rodgers Is Calling” Diahann Carroll
- “The Less Said, the Better” Craig Zadan
- “The Plot Against Musicals” Walter Kerr
- The Perils of Producing Rex Richard Adler
- Anatomy of a Flop: Pipe Dream, Do I Hear a Waltz, Rex, and I Remember Mama Ken Mandelbaum
- “Overture” to Richard Rodgers William G. Hyland
- “Introduction” to Musical Stages Mary Rodgers Guettel
- The Composer Speaks, 1939-1971
- “How to Write Music in No Easy Lessons: A Self Interview” (1939)
- “Introduction” to The Rodgers and Hart Song Book (1951)
- “Jerome Kern: A Tribute” (1951)
- “Pal Joey: History of a Heel” (1951)
- “The Right to Revive” (or “Revive and Let Live”) (1954)
- “Cancer? I’ve Had It!” (1957)
- “Introduction” (with Oscar Hammerstein) to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Song Book (1958)
- “Hammerstein: Words by Rodgers” (1960)
- “Opera and Broadway” (1961)
- “Now the Musical Theater is Enshrined” (1964)
- “A Composer Looks at His Lyricists” (1967)
- Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers (1969)
- Pal Joey
- Endings and Beginnings
- Words and Music
- Allegro
- South Pacific
- Pipe Dream
- Flower Drum Song
- The Sound of Music
- No Strings
- Do I Hear a Waltz?
- “The Broadway Audience Is Still There, Waiting for More Good Shows” (1971)
Contents
- words by Brooks Atkinson
- words by Brooks Atkinson
- Words and Music (film) • p308 • excerpt from Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers
- I Remember Mama (drama) • p244 • "Anatomy of a Flop: Pipe Dream, Do I Hear a Waltz, Rex, and I Remember Mama by Ken Mandelbaum
- Rex (drama) • p240 • "The Perils of Producing Rex", Richard Adler, from You've Gotta Have Heart: An Autobiography
- Rex (drama) • p244 • "Anatomy of a Flop: Pipe Dream, Do I Hear a Waltz, Rex, and I Remember Mama by Ken Mandelbaum
- No Strings (drama) • p321 • excerpt from Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers
- The Sound of Music (drama) • p319 • excerpt from Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers
- Do I Hear A Waltz? (drama) • p244 • "Anatomy of a Flop: Pipe Dream, Do I Hear a Waltz, Rex, and I Remember Mama by Ken Mandelbaum
- Do I Hear A Waltz? (drama) • p325 • excerpt from Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers
- Flower Drum Song (drama) • p318 • excerpt from Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers
- Pipe Dream (drama) • p244 • "Anatomy of a Flop: Pipe Dream, Do I Hear a Waltz, Rex, and I Remember Mama by Ken Mandelbaum
- Pipe Dream (drama) • p317 • excerpt from Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers
- South Pacific (drama) • p311 • excerpt from Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers
- Allegro (drama) • p309 • excerpt from Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers
- Oklahoma! (drama) • p105 • "The Work That Changed the Form", Ethan Mordden
- Pal Joey (drama) • p272 • "Pal Joey: History of a 'Heel'" (1951) by Richard Rodgers
- Pal Joey (drama) • p304 • excerpt from Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers
Topics covered by this book
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