Steven LaVigne is a director, playwright and reviewer. He’s worked with such local theaters as Classics Lost 'n' Found Theater Company, Twig Theater and Powderhorn Theater Arts, where his collection of Icelandic Folk Tales, Inside Snaefellsjokull Volcano was presented this summer. He loves to travel as well.
Eight months after The Sound of Music had premiered on Broadway, on August 23, 1960, Oscar Hammerstein II succumbed to...
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II created the rules for modern musical theater.
Their five major successes: Oklahoma, Carousel...
There’s a story about an encounter between the wives of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Eva Kern was telling...
Editor's Note: This essay is part of series of consideration of great composers forgotten musicals. It is not a review...
If anyone is responsible for transforming the musical theater of the 20th Century, without question, it’s Richard Rodgers. Partnered first...
Anyone with an interest in musical theater knows the name of the giants who helped develop the art form during...
Listen my children and you shall hear, of musicals old and dear,
Before Les Miz, Phantom and Cats...
