![]() ![]() Kevin has directed and choreographed over 100 productions across America. Regional credits as a performer include: West Side Story, Good News! A Chorus Line, My Fair Lady and Marvin in Falsettoland. New York audiences have seen him in the Off-Broadway production of Party. He appeared in National Touring companies of Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing, Leslie Uggams and Michele Lee, Anything Goes and the International Touring Company of A Chorus Line. Born and raised in Waltham, Massachusetts, Kevin began his theatrical career as dancer and actor. ![]() HILL ( Direction & Choreography / Producing Artistic Director). Life: Husband Lewis Flinn, son Cooper, daughter Gabrielle. Screenplays: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Advice From a Caterpillar. Fitch, Music From a Sparkling Planet, The Country Club, Advice From a Caterpillar, The Cartells. Plays: Shows for Days (Lincoln Center), The Nance, The Little Dog Laughed (Tony nom., Olivier nom., GLAAD Media Best Play ), As Bees in Honey Drown (Outer Critics Circle Award), Mr. Musicals: The Band Wagon (Encores), Cinderella (Tony nom., Best Book), Lysistrata Jones (Tony nom., Best Book), Sister Act (Tony nom., Best Book) and Xanadu (Tony nom., Best Book Drama Desk Best Book Outer Critics Circle Best Musical). They wrote one movie musical, State Fair, subsequently adapted to the stage, and one for television, “Cinderella.” First broadcast live with Julie Andrews in 1957, remade with Lesley Ann Warren (1965), and again with Whitney Houston and Brandy (1997), R&H’s Cinderella made her Broadway debut in 2013.ĭOUGLAS CARTER BEANE ( New Book). Over the next 16 years, R&H wrote eight more Broadway musicals: Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King and I, Me and Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song and The Sound of Music. Oklahoma! (1943), the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, was also the first of a new genre, the musical play, blending Rodgers’ sophisticated style of musical comedy (which he had perfected in a 25-year partnership with lyricist Lorenz Hart) with Hammerstein’s innovations in operetta (conceived in collaboration with such composers as Sigmund Romberg, Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml and Jerome Kern). ![]() After long and highly distinguished careers with other collaborators, Richard Rodgers (composer, 1902–79) and Oscar Hammerstein II (librettist/lyricist, 1895–1960) joined forces in the early ’40s to create the most successful partnership in the American musical theater. RICHARD RODGERS + OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II (Music, Lyrics & Original Book). ![]()
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