State fair / ; music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; book by Tom Briggs & Louis Mattioli ; based on the screenplay by Oscar Hammerstein II and the novel by Phil Stong, 1996.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive

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Since 1970, the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) has preserved live theatrical productions and documented the creative contributions of distinguished artists and legendary figures of the theatre. With the consent and cooperation of the theatrical unions and each production's artistic collaborators, TOFT produces video recordings of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions, as well as dialogues between notable theatre personalities. ...

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979

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Richard Rodgers, composer and producer, was born in New York on June 28, 1902. He composed his first song, My Auto Show Girl when he was fourteen years old. (This is included in the collection Box 16, Folder 6) In 1918 Rodgers met his first professional partner, Lorenz Hart. Together they presented their first hit show, The Garrick Gaieties in 1925. In 1929 Rodgers and Hart appeared in a two-reel autobiographical short, Masters of Melodyproduced by Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. and written and di...

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960

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Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer. He is best known for his collaborations with composer Richard Rodgers, whose musicals include Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music....

Mattioli, Louis.

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Stong, Phil, 1899-1957

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Phil Stong, an American author, teacher, journalist and editor, who published more than forty books, was born in 1899 in Pittsburg, Iowa. Stong scored his first success in 1932 with the publication of his novel, STATE FAIR, which was later adapted for the screen as the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the same name. In addition to his novels, his short stories were published in most of the leading national magazines of the time, and he also wrote several screenplays. Stong died at his home in ...

Briggs, Tom, 1952-

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Skinner, Randy

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Hammerstein, James

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