CMU School of Drama


Monday, November 24, 2014

A Doctor Checks Up on a New 'Allegro'

NYTimes.com: Aside from Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Frankenstein, there are not a lot of doctors in Broadway musicals.

Yet a show about father-and-son physicians was written by perhaps the greatest songwriting team in Broadway history: the composer Richard Rodgers and the librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. Considered by some to be their greatest flop, “Allegro,” which opened in 1947, is rarely performed today.

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