James Hammerstein

Also credited on3 works

State Fair
Jimmy
The Sound of Music

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In the literature8 passages

• JAMES HAMMERSTEIN has been a stage manager, director, producer, and president of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. The son of Oscar Hammerstein II and a director of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, he was the director of State Fair.It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer
• JAMES HAMMERSTEIN: State Fair is an audience show with a very simple story and simple characters. We never planned to bring it to New York, and then when we did, we expected to get killed because it was old-fashioned, not high tech at all. We couldn’t afford spectacle. That would cost six million; we were a two-million-dollar show.It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer
• JAMES HAMMERSTEIN: When Richard Rodgers linked up with Oscar Hammerstein II, the combination was stupendous. My father was a perfectionist. Richard Rodgers was more than a composer; he comes close to being the best musical dramatist ever going.It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer
• JAMES HAMMERSTEIN: Dad was terribly well balanced. We lived a very normal family life in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman would come by, but not very often. Dad didn’t like to stay up late.It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer
• JAMES HAMMERSTEIN: The golden age of American musical theater started with Oklahoma! My feeling is that everyone was trying to write Oklahoma! , from Victor Herbert on. And when Rodgers and Hammerstein finally did, they didn’t so much invent anything as throw out a lot of baggage. It became a kind of a guide to what you don’t have to do a…It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer
• JAMES HAMMERSTEIN : The show is very seductive, slowly seductive. There’s no number that stops the show, but by the second act there’s a purple haze over the audience.It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer

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