The first episode, now available, digs into the duo's first collaboration: Oklahoma!
Sierra Boggess
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Stage favorites Sierra Boggess and Julian Ovenden have joined with Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization President and Chief Creative Officer Ted Chapin for a new, six-episode podcast on the music of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Episodes will release on NewYorkPops.org weekly on Tuesdays. The first episode—focusing on the duo's first collaboration, 1943's Oklahoma!—is available now.
Also available at New York Pops' website is a full audio recording of their 2015 season-opening concert, which featured Boggess and Ovenden with Judith Clurman's Essential Voices USA performing selections from all 11 of Rodgers and Hammerstein's collaborations with conductor Steven Reineke.
A Look Back at the Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein
A Look Back at the Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein
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The original Broadway cast of Oklahoma!The Library of Congress
A scene from the original Broadway production of CarouselVandamm Studio/New York Public Library
Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner in the original 1951 Broadway production of The King and I.
Photo courtesy of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization
Joan McCracken, Bob Fortier, and Cast
Courtesy of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization: A Concord Company
Guy Raymond, Annabelle Gold, Keith Kaldenberg, Nicolas Orloff, Don Weissmuller, Mike Kellin, G.D. Wallace, Gene Kevin, Jenny Workman, Hobe Streiford, and Warren Kemmerling in Pipe Dream (1955)
Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana in Cinderella (originally written in 1957)
Miyoshi Umeki, Ed Kenney, Juanita Hall, Keye Luke, and the Cast of Flower Drum Song (1958)
The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization: A Concord Company
A scene from the original 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music.
Cumming directs and produces the series, featuring a predominantly LGBTQIA+ cast and creative team, as part of Audible’s partnership with Broadway Video.
An intersection of theatre and social justice, the podcast premieres with guest Jocelyn Bioh tied to her School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play.
