Fav. Richard Rodgers score
Fav. Richard Rodgers score
#1Fav. Richard Rodgers score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 8:44pm
Between his partnership with Lorenz Hart and then Hammerstein and then by himself . . . what do you think his best score is?
I, personally, love many of his scores, but I have a soft spot for BABES IN ARMS. It may not be his most serious work, but one show with ALL of those hit songs . . . it's great. I LOVE it!
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Updated On: 6/5/07 at 08:44 PM
#2re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 8:46pm
Of his Hart collaborations-it's up in the air with Babes in Arms and Pal Joey.
Of his Hammerstein collaborations-Carousel. Beautiful, beautiful score.
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#3re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 8:48pmI am partial to Flower Drum Song, only because it's so politically incorrect. And it's really the only R&H Musical I can tolerate for any extended period of time.
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#4re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 8:50pm**faints**
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#5re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 8:55pm
With Hammerstein- Carousel
With Hart- Pal Joey
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#6re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:00pmFor me it has to be THE KING & I with SOUTH PACIFIC and PAL JOEY coming second and third.
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#7re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:05pm
With Hart- Boys From Syracuse and Babes In Arms
Hammerstein- Carousel and South Pacific
But, my personal favorite is No Strings
#8re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:09pmCarousel.
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#10re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:21pm
I can't choose just one!
No Strings
Do I Hear a Waltz?
Pal Joey
Sound of Music
Carousel
Boys from Syracuse
#11re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:21pm
I can't choose just one!
No Strings
Do I Hear a Waltz?
Pal Joey
Sound of Music
Carousel
Boys from Syracuse
#12re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:28pmCarousel. No question about it. Just brilliant. A close second would be No Strings, which I think is about as wonderful as anything he did with either Hart or Hammerstein. I don't get why people gripe about it.
#13re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:39pm
Carousel hands down.
Definitely the best music he ever wrote.
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#14re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:45pmCarousel. Sound of Music is a close second, followed by Babes in Arms.
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#15re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:47pm
With Hammerstein- Carousel
With Hart- Pal Joey
pretty much.
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#16re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:47pm
From hsi three phases--Pal Joey, Carousel (though I oddly have a soft spot for Pipe Dream, and need to learn Allegro more--still only have heard 2 songs) and No Strings. I'm also starting to finally egt really into Do I Hear a Waltz (and have another soft spot for Flower Drum Song)
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#17re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 9:50pm
With Hammerstein: CAROUSEL
I also love the score to FLOWER DRUM SONG. I think it is under-rated. I also wonder what is specifically politically incorrect about it. I saw it in 1959 with its largely Asian cast and did not consider it offensive in any way.(Then, again, I am not Asian). I never get tired of listening to the score. The song "Love Look Away" is one of the most beautiful show tunes ever written.
With Hart: PAL JOEY
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Updated On: 6/5/07 at 09:50 PM
#18re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 10:14pm
Hmm, I don't have No Strings. I'll need to get it.
And it's far from my favourite score, but I absolutely love the movie Too Many Girls.
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#19re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 11:13pmYes, PAL JOEY is a close second for me as well.
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#20re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 11:25pmLike nearly everybody else: CAROUSEL, followed by PAL JOEY. I'm also partial to OKLAHOMA.
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#21re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 11:34pmRichard Rodgers is the greatest composer who ever lived, imo. I find it virtually impossible to select one of his scores. If there were a gun to my head, Carousel!
#22re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 11:38pmI'd say Carousel with King and I and South Pacific falling behind. All three of them are such lush, sweaping scores that you just don't get to hear today.
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#23re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/5/07 at 11:58pm
I've read somewhere that in the case of his collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein, that Mr. Hammerstein would write the lyrics first ( although of course the libretto was influenced by their original source materials) before Mr. Rodgers would compose the music. I am not sure if this work arrangement applied to all their musicals.
Being an unabashed R&H fan, I love most of their work together -- Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, King and I, and The Sound of Music. It's music you can't get out of your mind for a while 
Updated On: 6/6/07 at 11:58 PM
#24re: Fav. Richard Rodger score
Posted: 6/6/07 at 1:59am
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