Richard Rodgers
Birth date: June 28, 1902
Died: December 30, 1979
Richard Rodgers's Books
I was ok with this movie as a child, but as an adult I just can't like it. As a modern woman, I just can't handle the ideas pushed in the narrative. But I give it two stars for the Uncle Toms Cabin scene which I always loved.
Never really liked this R&H as a kid because it was slow and had themes I didn't really understand. Having watched it as an adult, the racism really surprised me and turned me off of the entire play. "Happy Talk" is about the only song I can take away from it, but since it involves the poor island g...
The best thing about an autobiography is that it doesn't usually end with a death! (although in the "centenary edition" I was reading, there was an afterword that covered the last years of Rodgers' life). The worst thing is that you usually only get half the picture, if that, especially if the autho...
When people hear the word "musical" they tend to think "comedy". I don't know why, although I do, too. And then we're surprised to discover that a musical deals with serious topics. But, if I listed ten off the top of my head, at least half of them would deal with something serious, probably more...
A fun show to perform or watch, although it's the Deborah Kerr/Yul Brenner film that sticks in my mind.