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Feb 8, 2023 · Oscar Hammerstein II was born in New York into a buoyant theatrical family. His grandfather Oscar Hammerstein I was a boom-and-bust, opera-mad impresario, a builder of extravagant concert halls in ...
Oscar Hammerstein II. In 1978, Time magazine donated approximately eight hundred works of original cover art to the National Portrait Gallery. The museum is dedicated to telling the stories of individuals who have shaped the United States, and the Time Collection—featuring prominent international figures and events—enriches our ...
Oscar Hammerstein II. Biography: Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was born on July 12, 1895 in New York City. His father managed the Victoria Theatre and was a producer of vaudeville shows. He attended Columbia University and studied at Columbia Law School. He quit law school for the theatre, and collaborated with various composers ...
Show Boat. Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber 's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.
May 14, 2018 · Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was born into a great theatrical family on July 12, 1895, in New York City. He was named after both famous grandfathers, Horace Greeley (1811 – 1872; famous antislavery newspaper publisher), and Oscar I, an opera promoter, as well as after the minister who wed his parents.
Jun 11, 2018 · When the playwright and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II was faced with spurious accusations of disloyalty to the United States during the Red Scare of the early 1950s because of his associations ...
Oscar Hammerstein II was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and musical theatre director from New York City. He won a total of 8 Tony Awards for his best known works, "South Pacific" (1949), "The King and I" (1951), and "The Sound of Music" (1959).
