Frederick Nolan's authoritative book substantially rewritten and expanded for this new edition tells the story of Rodgers and Hammerstein's magical collaborative career. Oklahoma! The Sound of Music and South Pacific are but three of the shows audiences still thrill to and the list of shows they wrote together is only slightly less amazing than the list of their collaborators - Lorenz Hart Jerome Kern Gene Kelly Julie Andrews and Mary Martin to name just a very few.
The greatest partnership in the history of the musical captured in print wonderfully illustrated. For this new edition the book has been completely rewritten and substantially expanded to include material on Rodgers' early career with Lorenz Hart as well as his later work and also features recollections from such theatrical titans as Sheldon Harnick Martin Charnin Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents. Also a completely new appendix reveals the details of the continuing worldwide phenomenon of Rodgers and Hammerstein's work up to and including theWWWW 2002 centennial year for Rodgers. 
 
