After Oklahoma! American musicals dominated musical
theatre in Britain for thirty years. Rodgers and Hammerstein
followed Oklahoma! with Carousel, South
Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song
and The Sound of Music.
This was the era of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate,
Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun, Lerner and
Lowe’s phenomenally successful My Fair Lady and
Frank Loesser’s Guys and Dolls.
Lyrics for Leonard Bernstein’s revolutionary
West Side Story were written by Stephen Sondheim –
who was to write music and lyrics for some of the most important
musicals of the late 20th century, including A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum (which was the
basis for Frankie Howerd’s hit TV show Up Pompeii),
A Little Night Music and Into the Woods.
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The Great American Musical
