50th Season Opens with Our Favourite Things….
An Afternoon of Rodgers and HammersteinPlease join CHORUS NIAGARA and Artistic Director Robert Cooper, as they present the first concert of the Golden Anniversary Season celebrating 50 years of fine choral music. 

Our Favourite Things – An Afternoon of Rodgers and Hammerstein

Sunday, November 4th, 2:30pm

Dr. J.M. Ennis Auditorium

Centennial Secondary School, Welland, ON

 

 

 

Our Favourite Things will transport audiences to the glitter and glamour of The Great White Way for an afternoon of memorable Broadway favourites from the most innovative and successful American musical theatre team.

 

 

Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) were one of the most influential, innovative and successful of American musical theatre writing teams, usually referred to as Rodgers and Hammerstein. They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, initiating what is considered the “golden age” of musical theatre. With Rodgers composing the music and Hammerstein writing the lyrics, five of their shows, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music, were outstanding successes.

 

Rodgers and Hammerstein re-worked the musical theatre genre. Breaking away from the early 20th-century musicals and their whimsical or farcical plot lines so dependent on a ‘star’, Rodgers and Hammerstein re-invented the modern American musical theatre with thought-provoking plots of emotional depth and psychological complexity along with the unbridled optimism of post WWII that marked a revolution in musical drama combining all the aspects of the play, dance, song, and drama into an integrated whole.