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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sat Nov 2, 2024, 06:26 AM Nov 2

On this day, November 2, 1945, Jerome Kern returned to New York to work on ...

Annie Get Your Gun (musical)

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History and background

Dorothy Fields had the idea for a musical about Annie Oakley, to star her friend, Ethel Merman. Producer Mike Todd turned the project down, so Fields approached a new producing team, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. After the success of their first musical collaboration, Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein had decided to become producers of both their own theatrical ventures and those by other authors. They agreed to produce the musical and asked Jerome Kern to compose the music; Fields would write the lyrics, and she and her brother Herbert would write the book. Kern, who had been composing for movie musicals in Hollywood, returned to New York on November 2, 1945, to begin work on the score to Annie Get Your Gun, but three days later, he collapsed on the street due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Kern was hospitalized, and he died on November 11, 1945.

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On this day, November 2, 1945, Jerome Kern returned to New York to work on ... (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2 OP
What a great bunch of names..... MyOwnPeace Nov 2 #1
Their greatness lives on every time we hum one oasis Nov 3 #2

MyOwnPeace

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1. What a great bunch of names.....
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 06:30 AM
Nov 2

all in an interesting story. But hey, ‘Anything you can do, I can do better!’

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