Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution

by Todd S. Purdum

207 performances, no mean feat when the Broadway competition included W. C. Fields and Fanny Brice in the Ziegfeld Follies and Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones. The next four years of Oscar’s career read like an old-fashioned movie montage, in which calendar pages flip by or front-page newspaper headlines spin around with dizzying speed to denote the passage of time: show after show at the pace of one, two, or even three a year, sometimes written in collaboration with Harbach, sometimes with others. There was Jimmie (1920) about a missing heiress; Pop (1921), a

Jones: A Memoir, pp. 82–83. But the biggest problem: Geoffrey M. Shurlock to