It is with great regret that I must inform you that possibly the two greatest writers of musicals ever are both dead. And their names ARE Rodgers and Hammerstein, don't be smart. One for 45 years, the other for almost 30. They can't give it back.
I agree that the King and I and the Sound of Music are better, though.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller