1. Musical Theater (THTR 135) Class #6 Rodgers and Hammerstein

3. (1943) Oklahoma! (1945) Carousel (1945) State Fair (film) (1947) Allegro* (1949) South Pacific (1951) The King and I (1953) Me and Juliet* (1955) Pipe Dream* (1957) Cinderella (television) (1958) Flower Drum Song (1959) The Sound of Music

4. Awards 34 Tony Awards 15 Academy Awards 1 Pulitzer Prize 2 Grammys

5. Recurring Themes Racism Sexism ▫Violence Cultural/social class tensions Redemption Optimism Romanticism

7. Ferenc Molnár (Liliom --1909)

8. “Bench Scene” (12 minutes!) Dialogue ▫“You’re a queer one, Julie Jordon” Dialogue ▫“I’m never gonna marry…” Dialogue ▫“When I worked at the mill…If I Loved You” Dialogue ▫“You can’t hear a sound…” Dialogue ▫“I can see myself…If I Loved You”

9. Soliloquy (7:30!) Dialogue/sung Emotional range Opera aria?

10. Final scene Redemptive qualities Hammerstein’s additions Salvation

11. James Michener: Tales of The South Pacific (1946)

12. Characters Nellie Forbush ▫Emile De Becque Lt. Joe Cable ▫Liat

13. Twin Soliloquies ▫Wonder how I'd feel Livin' on a hillside, Lookin' on an ocean, Beautiful and still. ▫We are not alike. Probably I'd bore him. He's a cultured Frenchman, I'm a little hick. ▫Wonder why I feel Jittery and jumpy! I'm like a school girl Waitin' for a dance. ▫This is what I need, This is what I've longed for. Someone young and smilin' Climbin' up my hill! ▫Younger man than I, Officers and doctors. Probably pursue her, She could have her pick. ▫Can I ask her now? I'm like a school boy! What will be her answer? Do I have a chance?

14. “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught” Controversy ▫Producers ▫Politicians  "an underlying philosophy inspired by Moscow.”  "a song justifying interracial marriage was implicitly a threat to the American way of life.”

15. Michener’s response "The authors replied stubbornly that this number represented why they had wanted to do this play, and that even if it meant the failure of the production, it was going to stay in."

16. You've got to be taught To hate and fear, You've got to be taught From year to year, It's got to be drummed In your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade, You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or eight, To hate all the people your relatives hate, You've got to be carefully taught!