They knew that Andrews, about six months into her acclaimed portrayal of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, was now “hot property” and thus they jumped at the opportunity. But it wasn’t long after Pipe Dream closed in June, 1956 that Julie Andrews’ agent contacted Rodgers to inquire whether he and Oscar might be interested in crafting for her a television version of the Cinderella story. The last two were received less than favorably by both the press and public. Beginning in 1943 with the (retitled) Oklahoma! the team cranked out-at precise two-year intervals- Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King and I, Me and Juliet, and Pipe Dream. When Richard Rodgers, following his 1942 breakup with lyricist Lorenz Hart and Hart’s death the following year, teamed with Oscar Hammerstein II on a show originally titled Away We Go! it was with a sense that they were writing, as Rodgers put it, “a different kind of musical.” There was hardly an expectation, however, that they would revolutionize the American musical and dominate Broadway for the next two decades.
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