- 00:03:30 West End at 1900: G&S + new genre of musical comedy (Florodora)
- 00:06:30 Jerome Kern as musical showdoctor
- 00:10:40 George Gershwin learning from Kern
- 00:18:30 Rodgers and Hart
- 00:20:00 Stephen Schwartz on Rodgers and Hart
- 00:25:00 On Hammerstein writing the words first, and less self-conscious style
- 00:33:00 First complete cast recording
Contents
- music by Richard Rodgers
- words by Oscar Hammerstein II
- music by Richard Rodgers
- music by Jerome Kern
- words by Herbert Reynolds
- music by Jerome Kern
- words by Edward Laska
- music by Leslie Stuart, Paul Rubens
- words by Edward Boyd-Jones, Paul Rubens
- music by Irving Berlin
- words by Irving Berlin
- music by Richard Rodgers
- words by Lorenz Hart
- music by Richard Rodgers
- words by Oscar Hammerstein II
- music by Jerome Kern
- words by Oscar Hammerstein II
- music by Irving Berlin
- words by Irving Berlin
- music by Frederick Loewe
- words by Alan Jay Lerner
- music by Richard Rodgers
- words by Oscar Hammerstein II
- music by Richard Rodgers
- words by Lorenz Hart
- Moonshine Lullaby (music) • 00:46:00 • Brief comment by Anna-Jane Casey on irony of "Lullaby" appellation for such a ballsy song.
- Salad Days (drama) • 00:13:30 • Salad Days contrasted with West Side Story; Jerome Robbins's response to Salad Days lyrics: "you're kidding".
- Florodora (drama) • 00:04:00
- Ol’ Man River (music) • 00:17:00 • Neil Brand comments on significance of transition from half-rhymes to full-rhymes in the song
- Annie Get Your Gun (drama) • 00:42:00 • as follow-on from Carousel, produced by Rodgers & Hammerstein. To be composed by Jerome Kern, who died before project. Berlin's reservations, esp. re through-composition. Rehearsal footage from Sheffield Theatres production, dir. Paul Foster with Anna-Jane Casey. Casey and Foster's awareness of Ethel Merman.
- Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man (music) • 00:13:30 • commenting on the role of race in the musical, and as an early example of an "I am" song in musical theatre
- Show Boat (drama) • 00:12:20
- Carousel (drama) • 00:34:00 • form being stretched in "The Bench Scene"; Neil Brand works with pupils from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
- My Fair Lady (drama) • 00:49:30 • Mary Martin as hoped-for original Mary Martin. Finding Julie Andrews in a production of The Boyfriend. Andrews struggling in rehearsal. Story of emergency rehearsal with Moss Hart. Footage of recreated rehearsal Hart with Andrews. Interview with Mary Hammond about Cockney twang and spitting out words.
- Oklahoma! (drama) • 00:23:40 • Starting with it originally having been seen as a Rodgers & Hart show, before Hart's departure for Mexico.
- Oklahoma! (drama) • 00:31:30 • Adam Guettel (grandson of Rodgers) on the musical
from Carousel
from Oklahoma!
from The Girl from Utah (one of five new songs by Kern and Reynolds commissioned by Charles Frohman for New York production)
from The Earl and the Girl (interpolated into New York production)
from Florodora
from Annie Get Your Gun
from A Connecticut Yankee
from Oklahoma!
from Show Boat
from Annie Get Your Gun
from My Fair Lady
from Carousel
from Babes in Arms
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