Richard Rodgers

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Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer best known for his contributions to musical theater.

Rodgers was one of the twentieth century's most influential American composers, with 43 Broadway shows and over 900 songs to his name, and his performances left a lasting impression on popular music.

He is best known for his songwriting collaborations with Lorenz Hart, the lyricists, On Your Toes and Babes in Arms, and Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote several musicals from the 1920s and 1950s including Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The Sound of Music.

In particular, Hammerstein's stories are praised for bringing the Broadway musical to a new level by focusing on characters and plot rather than the light-hearted entertainment that the period was traditionally known for.

Rodgers was the first person to win what are considered the top American entertainment awards in television, film, and Broadway, earning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award, which has since been designated collectively as an EGOT.

In addition, he was named the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, making him one of only two people to receive all five awards (Marvin Hamlisch is the other).

Early life and education

Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Rogazinsky, was born into a Jewish family in Queens, New York. Rodgers began playing the piano at the age of six. He attended P.S. Townsend Harris Hall and DeWitt Clinton High School, 166. Rodgers spent his youth summers in Camp Wigwam (Waterford, Maine), where he wrote some of his first songs.

Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and later collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University. Rodgers, a Columbia undergraduate, joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. Rodgers moved his studies to the Institute of Musical Art in 1921 (now the Juilliard School). Rodgers was inspired by composers such as Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern, as well as the operettas his parents brought him to see on Broadway as an infant.

Richard Hart was introduced to Lorenz Hart in 1919 by Phillip Levitt, a cousin of Richard's older brother. Rodgers and Hart suffered for years in the field of musical comedy, having produced numerous amateur plays. They made their professional debut with the song "Any Old Place With You," which appeared in the 1919 Broadway musical comedy A Lonely Romeo. The 1920 Poor Little Ritz Girl, which also featured music by Sigmund Romberg, was their first professional performance. The Melody Man, the Melody Man's newest professional show, did not premiere until 1924.

Rodgers played for Lew Fields when he was just out of college. Nora Bayes and Fred Allen were among the actors he accompanied. When Rodgers and Hart finally broke through in 1925, he and Hart were considering quitting show business altogether to sell children's underwear. The writers wrote the songs for a benefit show put on by the prestigious Theatre Guild called The Garrick Gaieties, and the viewers loved the performance, which was both fresh and delightful. Despite the fact that it was supposed to last just one day, the Guild knew they had a success and allowed it to re-open later this week. "Manhattan" was Rodgers and Hart's most popular song on the show, and Rodgers thought "made" Rodgers and Hart. They were now a Broadway songwriting force.

The pair produced several hit shows for both Broadway and London, including Dearest Enemy (1925), A Connecticut Yankee (1927), and Present Arms (1928). "Here in My Arms," "Mountain Greenery," "My Heart Stood Still" and "You Can Have Me" were among the 1920s' common household products.

With the 1930s in full swing, the team moved to Hollywood to find greener pastures. Rodgers later regretted his youth, but they did write some classic songs and film scores while out west, including Love Me Tonight (1932) (directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who would later direct Rodgers' Oklahoma). "Lover," "Mimi," and "Isn't It Romantic" are three new Broadway features. Rodgers also wrote a melody for which Hart wrote three consecutive songs that were either cut, not recorded, or not a hit. "Blue Moon" was one of their most well-known songs, and the fourth lyric resulted in one of their most popular songs. The Phantom President (1932), starring George M. Cohan, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933), and, in a quick return after leaving Hollywood, Mississippi (1935), starring Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields, are among other film performances.

They returned to Broadway in 1935 and wrote an almost unbroken series of hit shows that came shortly after Hart's death in 1943. Jumbo (1935), On Your Toes (1936), which included the ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," choreographed by George Balanchine), Babes in Arms (1938), I Married an Angel (1939), and their last living work, By Jupiter (1942). On several of these shows, Rodgers contributed to the book.

Many of the songs from these shows, including "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "My Romance," "I'll Tell the Man in the Street," "My Funny Valentine," "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "My Girlfriend," "This Is the Most Popular Girl in the World," "Making in Love with Love," "My Woman Is a Tramp," "Walk the Man in the Street," "My Funny Valentine," "I'll Tell the Man in Love with "My Romance" "I'" "I's "My Romance" "My Romance" "I's "My Romance," "Mie" "I's," "My My Romance" "My Bewilder and Bewilder" "The Lady I's Bewilder" "I" "My Romance" "My Romance" "My Romance" "My Romance" "My Bea Tramp" "My Romance" "My My Love with In The Man in My" "My Love with Love With Love with Love with Be A Tramp" "My My" "My Romance" "My Valentine" "My My Romance" "My My Valentine" "My Romance" "My My Romance" "My My Romance" "My My Romance" "My Bewilder" "My Romance" "My My" "My My Handi" "My Romance" "My My" "My My My" "My My Beside "My a" "My Little My Love With "My Beside Your Love with Love with My My Romance" "My My Handi" "My Boy" "My Baby Blue "My My Love with Love with Love with Love with Love in My My Daughter" "My Romance" "My My Romance" "My Romance "My My My Love with a Bewilder My Your Girl My a Tramp" "My" "My Romance" "My Daughter" "My "My My Love With Love With Love for My Be My Heart" "My Belie" "My Boy" "Befor My My" "Lea" "My Baby Blue" "Ma My My My Will Be In My" "My" "My My My My a My Befa" "My Lady In My Love with Love with Love with Love With Love "My My Daughter "My Romance" "My My Love with Love with Love With Love with Love With Love "My My Man in My My My "My My My I's "My Girl "My My My Love with Love With Love With Love with Love" "My My My Love with Love with Love" "My My "My Be My My My Sister "My My Love With Love with My Bewilder "My My My Boy "My My My My My" "My My My "My My My My My My My My Romance" "My My My My My My My My My "My My "My My "My My "My My" "My" "My My" "My My The Lady My "My My Bewilder" "My Romance" "My My My "My My "My" "My My My I" "My "My My "My My Sister "My" "My" "My" "My My" "My" "My" "My "My Heart" "My Man in My My "My My" "My My My My" "My "My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "Ma Tramp" "My Belove" "My" "My" "My" "My "My Befa My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My I" "My" "My" "My" "My Romance" "My My "My" "My Bew "My "My "My" "My" "My" "Bey" "Befa "My" "My Beha" "My" "My" "My "My" "My" "My" "My "Bed" "My "Beha" "My Belove "My Bewilder "My" "My "Beh" "My" "Beh" "My "My" "Beh" "Being with Love" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My My" "Befa My Love with Love" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "My" "Befa" "My I" "My" "My" "My "My" "My" "My" "My" "

Rodgers wrote the ballet Ghost Town for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1939, with choreography by Marc Platoff.

Due to the lyricist's inability and declining health, Rodgers' relationship with Hart began to fail. Rodgers began writing songs with Oscar Hammerstein II, with whom he had previously written (before ever working with Lorenz Hart). The pioneering hit Oklahoma was their first musical performance. (1943) marks the start of the most fruitful collaboration in American musical theatre history. Their work influenced the musical style. What started out as a collection of songs, dances, and comedic turns tied together by a tenuous plot became a completely integrated unit.

The team went on to produce four more hits, one of the most popular in musical history. Each was turned into a hit film: Carousel (1946), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), and The Sound of Music (1959). The minor hit Flower Drum Song (1958), as well as relative failures Allegro (1947), Me and Juliet (1953), and Pipe Dream (1955). They also wrote the score to the film State Fair (1945) (which was remade with Pat Boone in 1962) and Cinderella's special TV musical (1957).

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Both Hart and Hammerstein's work was orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Rodgers suggested twelve themes, which Bennett used in preparing the orchestra score for the 26-episode World War II television film Victory at Sea (1952–53). This NBC production pioneered the "compilation documentary"—based on a pre-existing video—and was eventually distributed in scores of countries. The melody of the popular song "No Other Love" was later added to the Victory at Sea theme "Beneath the Southern Cross." Rodgers received an Emmy Award for his music for ABC's Winston Churchill: The Vain Years, scored by Eddie Sauter, Hershy Kay, and Robert Emmett Dolan. "March of the Clowns," Rodgers composed the theme tune for the 1963-64 television series The Greatest Show on Earth, which lasted for 30 episodes, was written by Rodgers. He also contributed to the main title theme for the 1963–64 historical anthology television series The Great Adventure.

Rodgers and Hammerstein were given the Golden Medal Award of The Hundred Year Association of New York "in recognition of their contributions to the City of New York" in 1950. The Pulitzer Prize for South Pacific drama was won by Rodgers, Hammerstein, and Joshua Logan. In 1944, Rodgers and Hammerstein received a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma!

In 1954, Rodgers conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in excerpts from Victory at Sea, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, and Carousel Waltz's special LP, which were released by Columbia Records.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's musicals received a total of 37 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Awards.

Rodgers wrote both words and music for his first Broadway project No Strings (1962), which received two Tony Awards, following Hammerstein's death in 1960. The performance was a minor success, with the song "The Sweetest Sounds" being included.

In addition to directing two new songs in The Sound of Music's film version, Rodgers also wrote both the words and music for two new songs. (Other tracks in the film were from Rodgers and Hammerstein.)

Rodgers went on to work with lyricists, Stephen Sondheim (Do I Hear a Waltz?) Hammerstein, Martin Charnin's protégé (Two by Two, I Remember Mama) and Sheldon Harnick (Rex).

Barnard College bestowed Rodgers the Barnard Medal of Distinction at its 1978 commencement ceremonies.

Rodgers was one of the first Kennedy Center Honorees in 1978.

At the 1979 Tony Awards ceremony, six months before his death, Rodgers received the Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre.

Rodgers died in 1979, aged 77, after suffering from gastrointestinal cancer, a heart attack, and a laryngectomy. He was cremated, and his remains were scattered at sea.

In 1990, the Richard Rodgers Theatre was renamed the Richard Rodgers Theatre in honor of his patronage. Rodgers and Hart were both commemorated on United States postage stamps in 1999. Books, retrospectives, performances, new recordings of his music, and a Broadway revival of Oklahoma were all celebrated in 2002. Rodgers' music was on full throttle this year, with a concert appearance in Oklahoma! The Boston Pops Orchestra released a new CD this year named My Favorite Things: A Richard Rodgers Celebration.

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Rodgers is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Rodgers, along with the Academy of Arts and Letters, began and gave an award to non-established musical theater composers to produce new works, either in complete or staged readings. It is the only award for which the Academy of Arts and Letters accepts students and is presented every year. Here are the recent winners of the competition:

Rosemary Clooney produced a Rodgers-based "Falling in Love with Love" with a swing style. Richard Rodgers told her straight that it should be sung as a waltz after the recording session. Rodgers and Hart's "Blue Moon" in 1961 was so incense that he pulled out full-page newspaper advertisements urging people not to buy it. His attempts were in vain as it reached the top of the charts. He wrote to her and her manager, Jim Harbert, that his rendition of his song "I Have Dreamed" was the most stunning interpretation of his song he had ever seen since Doris Day's recording of "I Have Dreamed" in 1961.

Peggy Lee, who performed her version of "Lover," a Rodgers song with a dramatically different layout from the one that had been planned by him, had a great time with her version of "I don't know why Peggy picked on me," Rodgers wrote on him, "I don't know why Peggy picked on me." Richard Rodgers composed songs for her in South Pacific, knowing she had a limited vocal range, and the songs generally made her appear her best, according to Mary Martin. Rodgers and Hammerstein listened to all her ideas, she said, and she did a good job with them. Both Rodgers and Hammerstein needed Doris Day to lead the South Pacific film version, but she apparently wanted the role. They discussed it with her, but Mitzi Gaynor took over after her boss/husband Martin Melcher refused to budge on her offer for a substantial salary for her.

Richard Rodgers, Jr., became the ninth president of the Dramatic Guild of America in 1943.

Dorothy Belle Feiner, a 1930s girl from England, married Rodgers (1909–92). Mary and her mother, Mary (1931–2014), was the author of children's books and a poet. Later in life, the Rodgers lost a child at birth. Linda (1935-1945-2015), Linda's older sister, had a brief career as a songwriter. Adam Guettel, Mary's son and Richard Rodgers' grandson, was born in the United States. (b. In 2005, Karen Borton, a musical theatre performer, received Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for The Light in the Piazza. Peter Melnick (b.) is a musician who plays for the National Basketball Association. Adrift In Macao's grandfather, Linda Rodgers, debuted at the Philadelphia Theatre Company in 2005 and was produced Off-Broadway in 2007.

Rodgers was an atheist. He was depressed and alcohol dependent at any time and was hospitalized.

Personal life

Dorothy Belle Feiner, 1930-1909–92), was married by Rodgers in 1930. Mary (1931–2014), their mother and an author of children's books, was the author of Once Upon a Mattress and an editor of children's books. The Rodgers' daughter died at birth. Linda (1935–2015), Linda's older sister, had a brief career as a writer. Adam Guettel, Mary's uncle and Richard Rodgers' grandson, is (b. ). In 2005, Robert Liberator, a musical theatre conductor, received Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestration for The Light in the Piazza. Peter Melnick (b.) b. Peter Melnick (b). Adrift In Macao, a film by Linda Rodgers' son, premiered at the Philadelphia Theatre Company in 2005 and was produced Off-Broadway in 2007.

Rodgers was an atheist. He was prone to depression and alcohol use at one time, and he was hospitalized.

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Career

Richard Hart met Lorenz Hart in 1919, thanks to Phillip Levitt, a friend of Richard's older brother. Rodgers and Hart suffered for years in the field of musical comedy, including writing several amateur plays. They made their professional debut with the song "Any Old Place With You," which appeared in the 1919 Broadway musical comedy A Lonely Romeo. The 1920 Poor Little Ritz Girl, which also featured Sigmund Romberg's music, was their first professional performance. The Melody Man, the company's upcoming professional show, didn't premiere until 1924.

Rodgers, who was just out of college, was hired as Lew Fields' musical director. Nora Bayes and Fred Allen were among the actors he accompanied. When Rodgers and Hart finally broke through in 1925, he and Hart were considering quitting show business entirely to sell children's underwear. They wrote the songs for a charity show titled The Garrick Gaieties, which the critics found refreshing and delightful. Despite the fact that it was supposed to run for just one day, the Guild knew they had been successful and allowed it to re-open later today. "Manhattan" was the show's biggest hit, Rodgers' belief that "made" Rodgers and Hart. The two musicians had become a Broadway songwriting force.

The duo produced several hit shows for both Broadway and London, including Dearest Enemy (1925), A Connecticut Yankee (1928), and Present Arms (1928). "Here in My Arms," "Mountain Greenery," "Blue Room," "My Heart Stood Still," "My Heart Stood Still," and "You Should Take Advantage of Me" are among the 1920s exhibits.

With the Great Depression in full swing during the first half of the 1930s, the team began looking for greener pastures in Hollywood. Rodgers' hardworking rodgers later regretted these relatively bad years, but he and Hart did write some classic songs and film scores when out west, including Love Me Tonight (1932) (directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who would later direct Rodgers' Oklahoma). On Broadway, three new standards were established: "Lover," "Mimi," and "Isn't It Romantic?" Rodgers also wrote a melody for which Hart wrote three lines that were either cut, not recorded, or not a hit. "Blue Moon" was one of their most popular songs, and the fourth lyric resulted in one of their most popular songs. The soundtrack to The Phantom President (1932), starring George M. Cohan, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933), and, in a quick return after having left Hollywood, Mississippi (1935), starring Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields, are among other film performances.

They returned to Broadway in 1935 and produced an almost unbroken string of hit shows that ended soon after Hart's death in 1943. Jumbo (1935), On Your Toes (1936), which included the ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, choreographed by George Balanchine), Babes in Arms (1938), and their last original work, By Jupiter (1942). On several of these shows, Rodgers also contributed to the book.

Many of the songs from these shows are also remembered, including "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "My Romance," "I'll Tell the Man in the Street," "Mate The Man in the Street," "I'll Tell the Man in the Street," "My Funny Valentine," "Beware of Love with Love," "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "My My Sweet Valentine," "My Darling," "My Beautiful Valentine

Rodgers wrote the ballet Ghost Town for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1939, with choreography by Marc Platoff.

Because of the lyricist's inability and declining health, Rodgers' relationship with Hart began to fail. Rodgers started working with Oscar Hammerstein II, with whom he had written songs before ever being employed with Lorenz Hart. Oklahoma is the first musical performance to be a hit! (1943) marks the beginning of the country's most fruitful partnership. Their work changed the musical style. What started off as a collection of songs, dances, and comedies linked by a tenuous plot became a cohesive whole.

The team went on to produce four more hits, which are among the most popular in musical history. Each was turned into a hit film, Carousel (1949), South Pacific (2001, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), The King and I (1951), and The Sound of Music (1959). Flower Drum Song (1958), the minor hit Flower Drum Song (1958), As well as relative failures Allegro (1947), Me and Juliet (1953), and Pipe Dream (1955). They also wrote the score to the film State Fair (1945), (which was remade in 1962 with Pat Boone) and Cinderella's special TV musical (1957).

"I Love You," "People Will Say We're in Love," "Some Enchanted Evening," "Getting to Know You," "It's A Grand Night For Singing," "You'll Never Walk Alone," "Some Enchanted Evening," "Singing", "Getting to Know You," "Get to Know Me," "Mexit," "Do-Re-Mi," "Get to Know You," "It's A Grand Night For Singing

Robert Russell Bennett orchestrated a large portion of Rodgers' performances with both Hart and Hammerstein. Rodgers designed twelve themes, which Bennett used in preparing the orchestra score for the 26-episode World War II television documentary Victory at Sea (1952–53). This NBC film pioneer pioneered the "compilation documentary," based on a pre-existing video, and was broadcast in scores of nations. The melody of "No Other Love" later developed from Victory at Sea's "Beneath the Southern Cross" theme. Rodgers received an Emmy for the music for ABC's Winston Churchill: The Vain Years, starring Eddie Sauter, Hershy Kay, and Robert Emmett Dolan. "March of the Clowns," Rodgers' theme tune for the 1963–64 television series The Greatest Show on Earth, which lasted for 30 episodes, was produced by Rodgers. He also contributed to the main theme for the 1963-64 historical anthology television series The Great Adventure.

Rodgers and Hammerstein were honoured with the Gold Medal Award of the City of New York in 1950 "in recognition of their contributions to the City of New York." The Pulitzer Prize for Drama for South Pacific was won by Rodgers, Hammerstein, and Joshua Logan. In 1944 for Oklahoma, Rodgers and Hammerstein received a special Pulitzer Prize.

Rodgers conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in excerpts from Victory at Sea, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, and the Carousel Waltz's special LP, released by Columbia Records in 1954.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's productions received a total of 37 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Awards were among the many accolades.

Rodgers wrote both words and music for his first Broadway project No Strings (1962), which received two Tony Awards, following Hammerstein's death in 1960. The performance was a minor hit, and it featured the song "The Sweetest Sounds."

Rodgers also wrote both the words and music for two new songs used in The Sound of Music's film version. (Other songs in the film were from Rodgers and Hammerstein.)

Rodgers continued to work with lyricists, including Stephen Sondheim (Do I Hear a Waltz? who was a protégé of Hammerstein, Martin Charnin (Two By Two, I Remember Mama) and Sheldon Harnick (Rex).

Barnard College's highest award, the Barnard Medal of Distinction, was given to Rodgers at its 1978 commencement functions.

In 1978, Rodgers was named as one of the first Kennedy Center Honorees.

At the 1979 Tony Awards dinner, six months before his death, Rodgers received the Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre.

Rodgers died in 1979, age 77, after suffering from a throat attack and a laryngectomy. He was cremated, and his remains were scattered at sea.

In 1990, the 46th Street Theatre was renamed the Richard Rodgers Theatre in honor of his patron, Sir Arthur Rodgers. Rodgers and Hart were both commemorated on United States postage stamps in 1999. Rodgers' birth centennial year, retrospectives, performances, new recordings of his music, and a Broadway revival of Oklahoma were all celebrated around the world in 2002. Rodgers' music was central to the BBC Proms this year, with a concert appearance of Oklahoma! The Boston Pops Orchestra released a new CD this year in honor of Rodgers' work, titled My Favorite Things: A Richard Rodgers Celebration.

Alec Wilder wrote the following about Rodgers: 'They were written in Rodgers':

Rodgers is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Rodgers, as well as the Academy of Arts and Letters, initiated and established an award for non-established musical theater composers to produce new works, whether full productions or staged readings. It is the only award for which the Academy of Arts and Letters accepts applications and is presented every year. The following are the previous winners of the competition: The following are the recipients.

Rosemary Clooney produced a swing style version of Rodgers' "Falling in Love with Love." Richard Rodgers told her after the recording session that it should be sung as a waltz. The Marcels' "Blue Moon" was so incense that Rodgers pulled out full-page newspaper advertisements urging people not to buy it. Although his attempts to crack the top of the charts, it was ineffective. Doris Day wrote to her and her arranger, Jim Harbert, that theirs was the most beautiful interpretation of his song he had ever heard after Doris Day's "I Have Dreamed" on 1961.

"I don't know why Peggy picked on me," Rodgers wrote on his "Lover," a Rodgers song, in a dramatically different way from that originally imagined by him, but she may have fucked up Silent Night," Rodgers said. Richard Rodgers wrote songs for her in South Pacific, knowing she had a limited vocal range, and the songs generally made her appear her best, according to Mary Martin. Rodgers and Hammerstein listened to all her ideas, according to her, and she did a good job with them. Both Rodgers and Hammerstein wanted Doris Day to lead the film version of South Pacific, but she didn't want her to play the role. They discussed it with her, but Mitzi Gaynor, her boss/husband Martin Melcher, refused to relinquish his offer for a high salary for her.

Richard Rodgers, the ninth president of the Dramatic Guild of America, became the ninth president of the Dramatist Guild of America in 1943.

Rodgers married Dorothy Belle Feiner (1909-92). Mary (1931-2014), their daughter, and an author of children's books, was the creator of Once Upon a Mattress and a writer of children's books. A daughter was lost at birth by the Rodgers' children. Linda (1935–2015), Linda's older sister, had a brief career as a writer. Adam Guettel, Mary's uncle and Richard Rodgers' grandson, is b. In 2005, Robert Graham, a musical theatre conductor, received Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestration for The Light in the Piazza. Peter Melnick (British) was a student at the University of On the other hand, Peter Melnick (b.) was a successful performer. Adrift In Macao, a composer who appeared at the Philadelphia Theatre Company in 2005 and was produced Off-Broadway in 2007. Linda Rodgers' son, Joseph Rodgers, was the composer.

Rodgers was an atheist. He was depressed and alcohol dependent at the time, and was hospitalized for a short time.

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