Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Baron Of Broadway And The Box Office

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Baron Of Broadway And The Box Office

After decades of struggling to shed its image as the poor relative of the European operetta, the American musical finally found its breakthrough on March 30, 1943, when Rodgers and Hammerstein, working together for the first time, delivered the trailblazing Oklahoma!. In the years that followed, Broadway entered “the golden age of musicals”: an era of solidly crafted shows, with stories that were compelling and tunes that people could whistle ad…