Even the lion of musical theater composers, Richard Rodgers, comes in for some withering revisionism.

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The original production of South Pacific - composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II - won nine Tonys in 1950.

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Producers said Monday that previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatre will begin Aug. 24 with an opening night set for Sept. 19.

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The reunited band will play 15 performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre beginning next month (performances start April 15), a show combining live performance, video reenactments, archival concert and news footage, op-art backdrops and psychedelic lighting.

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Loos ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes") wrote "Happy Birthday" as a starring vehicle for her friend, Helen Hayes, and Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein produced it on Broadway in 1946, where it ran for nearly a year and a half.

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"Pal Joey" is one of the all-time great Broadway musicals, a portrait of life on the bottom rungs of showbiz in which Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart teamed up to immensely potent effect with John O'Hara ("Appointment in Samarra"), who wrote the book.

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Obama finished his whirlwind of meetings with tea at Buckingham Palace with the British monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, where, according to media reports, the president gave the queen a fully loaded, engraved iPod and a rare, signed songbook from American composer Richard Rodgers.

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He was accompanied by the US special envoy Richard Haass, US Consul Barbara Stephenson and Belfast Lord Mayor Jim Rodgers.

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