Best Selling Books by Richard RODGERS

Drawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such as William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is Easy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Great Migration. He mines the writers'' biographical connections to migration and teases apart the ways in which individual novels relate to one another, to the historical situation of black America, and to African-American literature as a whole. In reading migration novels in relation to African-American literary texts such as slave narratives, folk tales, and urban fiction, Rodgers affirms the southern folk roots of African-American culture and argues for a need to stem the erosion of southern memory.

This show-within-a-show follows the romance between a chorus girl and an assistant stage manager leading to their secret marriage. Their happy union is threatened by the electrician who still carries a torch for the girl and, in a drunken rage, tries to kill them both. A contrasting romance involves the stage manager, whose credo never to fall for a girl in a show he''s working on is complicated when a dancer he''s been wooing is suddenly thrown into the cast of ''Me and Juliet.'' Informed by rich insights into the world of Broadway - how jobs are gotten and lost, the inside tricks of the trade and the pitfalls of backstage romances - Me and Juliet is an innovative, irresistible show that consistently delivers both musically and dramatically.

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Rodgers & Hammerstein''s only musical written directly for the screen is now a stage musical that''s had critics raving from coast to coast. Set against the colorful backdrop of an American heartland tradition, State Fair travels with the Frake family as they leave behind the routine of the farm for three days of adventure at the annual Iowa State Fair. Mom and Pop have their hearts set on blue ribbons, while their children Margy and Wayne find romance and heartbreak on the midway. Set to the magical strains of an Academy Award-winning score and augmented by other titles from the Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook, State Fair is the kind of warm-hearted family entertainment only Rodgers & Hammerstein could deliver! ufeff

Opening on Broadway on October 10, 1947, the musical centers on the life of Joseph Taylor, Jr., who follows in the footsteps of his father as a doctor, but is tempted by fortune and fame at a big-city hospital.

Book by S. Taylor. Music and lyrics by R. Rodgers. First presented in New York, March 15, 1962.

Connie Casey, an American heiress, has just returned from a series of scandalous adventures in Europe. Connie decides to go back to college and she wants to go to her father''s Alma matter, Pottawatomie College in New Mexico. Her father wants to be sure that Connie doesn''t get into mischief so he hires four professional football players as her bodyguards. The players learn that the college is in financial trouble so they donate their salaries to the college. They also find out that the college has not won a football game in their 75 year history so they join the team. Suddenly the team becomes the number 1 team in America. Meanwhile, bodyguard Clint falls in love with Connie and vice versa. Connie finds out that Clint is being paid by her father, and demands that the four players accompany her back to New York the night before the last big game. Will they leave? Will Clint be forgiven?

The scripts and lyrics of six of their most popular musicals.