Rodgers and Hammerstein biography coming in 2018

The book's release is timed for the 75th anniversary of Richard Rodgers' and Oscar Hammerstein II's first collaboration, Oklahoma!

Richard Rodgers, left, and Oscar Hammerstein in 1956 Photo: AP

By Martin Chilton, Culture Editor online

The Telegraph -  30 June 2015

The 75th anniversary of Richard Rodgers' and Oscar Hammerstein II's first collaboration, Oklahoma!, is being marked by a new biography of the musical giants.

In two decades of collaboration, Rodgers and Hammerstein worked on such musicals as Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, Pipe Dream, The King and I and The Sound of Music. Their musicals and films have won dozens of major awards including a Pulitzer Prize; 34 Tonys, 15 Oscars and two Grammys. 

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