"Who expects a miracle to happen every day?": Rediscovering Me and Juliet and Pipe Dream, the forgotten musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein

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dc.contributor.advisorDeLapp, Jenniferen_US
dc.contributor.authorMariska, Bradley Claytonen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-06-04T05:44:05Z
dc.date.available2004-06-04T05:44:05Z
dc.date.issued2004-05-13en_US
dc.description.abstractMe and Juliet (1953) and Pipe Dream (1955) diverged considerably from Rodgers and Hammerstein's influential and commercially successful 1940s musical plays. Me and Juliet was the team's first musical comedy and had an original book by Hammerstein. Pipe Dream was based on a John Steinbeck novel and featured bums and prostitutes. This paper documents the history of Me and Juliet and Pipe Dream, using correspondence, early drafts of scripts, interviews with cast members, and secondary sources. I analyze the effectiveness of plot, music, and lyrics, while considering factors in each show's production that may have led to their respective failures. To better understand reception, emphasis is placed upon each show's relationship to the political and cultural landscape of 1950s America. Re-examining these musicals helps document the complete history of the Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration and provides valuable insights regarding the duo's social values and personal philosophies of musical theatre.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/1456
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheateren_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRichard Rodgersen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOscar Hammersteinen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmusical theatreen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmusical theateren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmusical comedyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmusicalsen_US
dc.title"Who expects a miracle to happen every day?": Rediscovering Me and Juliet and Pipe Dream, the forgotten musicals of Rodgers and Hammersteinen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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