Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd Present Mary Martin - The Sound Of Music (Original Broadway Cast) flac album

The original Broadway cast album has since sold three million copies. 1st release is in a Gatefold sleeve with drawing of a guitar on the front, a photo of Mary Martin and the children on the back and extensive notes and photos of the production inside. This was Columbia's first cast album issued in a Gatefold cover and carrying the KOL/KOS prefix. In the mid 1960s Columbia pressed additional LPs using a standard sleeve with the photo of Mary and the kids on the front and re-printing the synopsis on the back

The Sound of Music (Original Broadway Cast Recording). Most of the civilized world identifies this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic with the Robert Wise film, one of the most successful movie musicals of all time ("The Sound of Money," critic Pauline Kael termed it). Which is why this recording can be so disconcerting. Not only are there different tunes ("How Can Love Survive," "Laendler," "No Way to Stop It," but no "Confidence" or "Something Good," both written for the film), but Captain Von Trapp is played by heavyset folksinger Theodore Bikel, a far cry from young Christopher Plummer.

The Sound of Music - Preludium. Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers. 2. The Sound of Music. 6. Sixteen Going on Seventeen. 7. The Lonely Goatherd. Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers

The Sound of Music (Original, Musical, Drama, Broadway) opened in New York City Nov 16, 1959 and played through Jun 15, 1963. 1960 Winner Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Music by Richard Rodgers Produced by Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Best Actress in a Musical. 1960 Winner Mary Martin. Best Featured Actor in a Musical. 1960 Nominee Theodore Bikel and Kurt Kasznar. Best Featured Actress in a Musical. 1960 Winner Patricia Neway.

For collaborative work with Richard Rodgers, see Rodgers and Hammerstein. Oscar Hammerstein II. Hammerstein circa 1940. His reputation for being sentimental is based largely on the movie versions of the musicals, especially The Sound of Music, in which a song sung by those in favor of reaching an accommodation with the Nazis, "No Way to Stop It", was cut. As recent revivals of Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The King and I in London and New York show, Hammerstein was one of the more tough-minded and socially conscious American musical theater artists. According to Richard Kislan, "The shows of Rodgers and Hammerstein were the product of sincerity.

by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse. A classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Story: Maria, a nun who is causing the Abbey trouble is sent off to be governess to Captain Von Trapp's seven troublesome children. Maria teaches them to sing and Captain Von Trapp to love, but when the Nazis invade Austria, the whole family is forced to flee to safety. Mary Martin, Theodore Bikel, Patricia Neway, Kurt Kaszner, Marion Marlowe, Lauri Peters, Brain Davies, John Randolph, Nan McFarland, Joey Heatherton. Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Musical Director.

View all records by Rodgers, Richard/Hammerstein, Oscar for sale on CDandLP in LP, CD, 12inch, 7inch format. richard rodgers, oscar hammerstein 2nd, leland haw the sound of music (original broadway cast) (gatefold). Columbia Masterworks - US - KOL 5450 - 1959. mary martin - richard rodgers - oscar hammerstein the sound of music (original broadway cast).

On November 16, 1959, The Sound of Music - the last musical collaboration of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II - made history when it opened at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne. While a larger audience came to know The Sound of Music six years later, when the Oscar-winning film version starring Julie Andrews was released, the musical became a major hit of the 1959-60 season, sharing (with Fiorello!) that spring the Tony Award for Best Musical.