Richard Rodgers

American composer of songs and Broadway musicals (1902–1979)

For other people named Richard Rodgers, see Richard Rodgers (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Richard Rogers or Dick Rogers.

Richard Rodgers

Rodgers at the St. James Theatre in 1948

Background information
Birth name| Richard Charles Rodgers
Born| (1902-06-28)June 28, 1902
New York City, U.S.
Died| December 30, 1979(1979-12-30) (aged 77)
New York City, U.S.
Genres| Musical theater
Occupations|

* Composer
* songwriter
* playwright

Years active| 1919–1979
Education| Columbia University (BA)
Juilliard School

Musical artist

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to his credit, Rodgers was one of the best-known American composers of the 20th century, and his compositions had a significant influence on popular music.

Rodgers is known for his songwriting partnerships, first with lyricist Lorenz Hart and then with Oscar Hammerstein II. With Hart he wrote musicals throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including Pal Joey, A Connecticut Yankee, On Your Toes and Babes in Arms. With Hammerstein he wrote musicals through the 1940s and 1950s, such as Oklahoma!, Flower Drum Song, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. His collaborations with Hammerstein, in particular, are celebrated for bringing the Broadway musical to a new maturity by telling stories that were focused on characters and drama rather than the earlier light-hearted entertainment of the genre.

Rodgers was the first person to win all four of the top American entertainment awards in theater, film, recording, and television - an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony - now known collectively as an EGOT.[1] In addition, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, making him the first ever to receive all five awards (later joined by Marvin Hamlisch).[2] In 1978, Rodgers was in the inaugural group of Kennedy Center Honorees for lifetime achievement in the arts.[3]

## Early life

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The poster for Fly With Me, the 1920 Columbia University Varsity Show. The music was co-written by Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and also included songs by Oscar Hammerstein II, making the show one of the first collaborations between the two men.[4]

Rodgers was born into a Jewish family in Queens, New York, the son of Dr. William Abrahams Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Rogazinsky, and his wife Mamie (née Levy). Rodgers began playing the piano at the age of six. He attended P.S. 166, Townsend Harris Hall and DeWitt Clinton High School. Rodgers spent his early teenage summers in Camp Wigwam (Waterford, Maine) where he composed some of his first songs.[5]

Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and later collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University. At Columbia, Rodgers joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. In 1921, Rodgers shifted his studies to the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School).[6] Rodgers was influenced by composers such as Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern, as well as by the operettas his parents took him to see on Broadway when he was a child.

## Career

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### Rodgers and Hart

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Main article: Rodgers and Hart

Richard Rodgers (seated) with Lorenz Hart in 1936

In 1919, Richard met Lorenz Hart, thanks to Phillip Levitt, a friend of Richard's older brother. Rodgers and Hart struggled for years in the field of musical comedy, writing several amateur shows. They made their professional debut with the song "Any Old Place With You", featured in the 1919 Broadway musical comedy A Lonely Romeo. Their first professional production was the 1920 Poor Little Ritz Girl, which also had music by Sigmund Romberg. Their next professional show, The Melody Man, did not premiere until 1924.

When he was just out of college Rodgers worked as musical director for Lew Fields. Among the stars he accompanied were Nora Bayes and Fred Allen.[7] Rodgers was considering quitting show business altogether to sell children's underwear, when he and Hart finally broke through in 1925. They wrote the songs for a benefit show presented by the prestigious Theatre Guild, called The Garrick Gaieties, and the critics found the show fresh and delightful. Although it was meant to run only one day, the Guild knew they had a success and allowed it to re-open later. The show's biggest hit—the song that Rodgers believed "made" Rodgers and Hart—was "Manhattan". The two were now a Broadway songwriting force.

Throughout the rest of the decade, the duo wrote several hit shows for both Broadway and London, including Dearest Enemy (1925), The Girl Friend (1926), Peggy-Ann (1926), A Connecticut Yankee (1927), and Present Arms (1928). Their 1920s shows produced standards such as "Here in My Arms", "Mountain Greenery", "Blue Room", "My Heart Stood Still" and "You Took Advantage of Me".

With the Depression in full swing during the first half of the 1930s, the team sought greener pastures in Hollywood. The hardworking Rodgers later regretted these relatively fallow years, but he and Hart did write some classic songs and film scores while out west, including Love Me Tonight (1932) (directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who would later direct Rodgers's Oklahoma! on Broadway), which introduced three standards: "Lover", "Mimi", and "Isn't It Romantic?". Rodgers also wrote a melody for which Hart wrote three consecutive lyrics which were either cut, not recorded or not a hit. The fourth lyric resulted in one of their most famous songs, "Blue Moon". Other film work includes the scores to The Phantom President (1932), starring George M. Cohan, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933), starring Al Jolson, and, in a quick return after having left Hollywood, Mississippi (1935), starring Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields.

In 1935, they returned to Broadway and wrote an almost unbroken string of hit shows that ended shortly before Hart's death in 1943. Among the most notable are Jumbo (1935), On Your Toes (1936, which included the ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue", choreographed by George Balanchine), Babes in Arms (1937), I Married an Angel (1938), The Boys from Syracuse (1938), Pal Joey (1940), and their last original work, By Jupiter (1942). Rodgers also contributed to the book on several of these shows.

Many of the songs from these shows are still sung and remembered, including "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", "My Romance", "Little Girl Blue", "I'll Tell the Man in the Street", "There's a Small Hotel", "Where or When", "My Funny Valentine", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Falling in Love with Love", "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", and "Wait till You See Her".

In 1939, Rodgers wrote the ballet Ghost Town for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with choreography by Marc Platoff.[8]

### Rodgers and Hammerstein

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Main article: Rodgers and Hammerstein

Rodgers (seated) with Hammerstein, 1945

Rodgers' partnership with Hart began having problems because of the lyricist's unreliability and declining health from alcoholism. Rodgers began working with Oscar Hammerstein II, with whom he had previously written songs (before ever working with Lorenz Hart). Their first musical, the groundbreaking hit Oklahoma! (1943), is a notable example of a "book musical", a musical play in which the songs and dances are fully integrated into the plot. What was once a collection of songs, dances and comic turns held together by a tenuous plot became a fully integrated narrative. Even though Show Boat is considered to be the earliest example of a book musical, Oklahoma! epitomized the innovations for which Show Boat had laid the groundwork and is considered the first production in American history to be intentionally marketed as a fully integrated musical.[9]

In 1943, Richard Rodgers became the ninth president of the Dramatists Guild of America. In November that year he and Hart mounted a revival of A Connecticut Yankee; Hart died from alcoholism and pneumonia just days after its opening.

Rodgers and Hammerstein went on to create four more hits that are among the most popular in musical history. Each was made into a successful film: Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), The King and I (1951), and The Sound of Music (1959). Other shows include the minor hit Flower Drum Song (1958), as well as relative failures Allegro (1947), Me and Juliet (1953), and Pipe Dream (1955). They also wrote the score to the film State Fair (1945) (which was remade in 1962 with Pat Boone) and a special TV musical of Cinderella (1957).

Their collaboration produced many well-known songs, including "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'", "People Will Say We're in Love", "Oklahoma" (which also became the state song of Oklahoma), "It's A Grand Night For Singing", "If I Loved You", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "It Might as Well Be Spring", "Some Enchanted Evening", "Younger Than Springtime", "Bali Hai", "Getting to Know You", "My Favorite Things", "The Sound of Music", "Sixteen Going on Seventeen", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", and "Edelweiss", Hammerstein's last song.

Rodgers was the subject of a two-part special on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town television show in 1952

Much of Rodgers' work with both Hart and Hammerstein was orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Rodgers composed twelve themes, which Bennett used in preparing the orchestra score for the 26-episode World War II television documentary Victory at Sea (1952–53). This NBC production pioneered the "compilation documentary"—programming based on pre-existing footage—and was eventually broadcast in dozens of countries. The melody of the popular song "No Other Love" was later taken from the Victory at Sea theme entitled "Beneath the Southern Cross". Rodgers won an Emmy for the music for the ABC documentary Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years, scored by Eddie Sauter, Hershy Kay, and Robert Emmett Dolan. Rodgers composed the theme music, "March of the Clowns", for the 1963–64 television series The Greatest Show on Earth, which ran for 30 episodes. He also contributed the main title theme for the 1963–64 historical anthology television series The Great Adventure.

In 1950, Rodgers and Hammerstein received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York." Rodgers, Hammerstein, and Joshua Logan won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for South Pacific.[10] Rodgers and Hammerstein had won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Oklahoma!.[11]

In 1954, Rodgers conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in excerpts from Victory at Sea, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue and the Carousel Waltz for a special LP released by Columbia Records.

Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals earned a total of 37 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Awards.

### After Hammerstein

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Rodgers composed five new musicals between Hammerstein's death in 1960 and his own in 1979. In chronological order, they are: No Strings (1962), Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), Two by Two (1970), Rex (1976), and I Remember Mama (1979).[12]

Rodgers wrote both words and music for his first new Broadway project No Strings, which earned two Tony Awards and played 580 shows. The show was a minor hit and featured the song, "The Sweetest Sounds".

Rodgers also wrote both the words and music for two new songs used in the film version of The Sound of Music. (Other songs in that film were from Rodgers and Hammerstein.)

Each of his final Broadway musicals faced a declining level of success as Rodgers was overshadowed by up-and-coming composers and lyricists. This was evident by the steady drop in run times and critic reviews. Do I Hear a Waltz? ran 220 performances; Two by Two, 343 performances; Rex only 49 performances; and I Remember Mama, 108 performances.[12]

While Rodgers went on to work with lyricists: Stephen Sondheim (Do I Hear a Waltz?), who was a protégé of Hammerstein, Martin Charnin (Two by Two, I Remember Mama) and Sheldon Harnick (Rex), he never found another permanent partner. These partnerships proved to be unsuccessful as a result of issues of collaboration. Sondheim's reluctance to participate in Do I Hear a Waltz? led to tension between the two. In addition, Charnin and Rodgers were met with opposing ideas when creating Two by Two.[12]

Nevertheless, his overall successful lifetime career did not go unrecognized. At its 1978 commencement ceremonies, Barnard College awarded Rodgers its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction.

Rodgers was an honoree at the first Kennedy Center Honors in 1978. At the 1979 Tony Awards ceremony—six months before his death—Rodgers was presented the Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre.

One of Rodger's final works was a revival of Fly With Me for the 1980 Varsity Show, to which he added several new songs. He died less than four months before its premiere in April 1980.[4]

## Personal life

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In 1930, Rodgers married Dorothy Belle Feiner (1909–92).[13] Their daughter, Mary (1931–2014), was the composer of Once Upon a Mattress and an author of children's books.[14] The Rodgers later lost a daughter at birth. Another daughter, Linda (1935–2015), also had a brief career as a songwriter. Mary's son and Richard Rodgers's grandson, Adam Guettel (b. 1964), also a musical theater composer, won Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for The Light in the Piazza in 2005. Peter Melnick (b. 1958), Linda Rodgers's son, is the composer of Adrift In Macao, which debuted at the Philadelphia Theatre Company in 2005 and was produced Off-Broadway in 2007. Mary Rodgers' book Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers was published posthumously in 2022, and included her frank revelations and assessments of her father, family and herself.[15]

Rodgers was an atheist.[16] He was prone to depression and alcohol abuse and was at one time hospitalized.

Rodgers was portrayed by Tom Drake in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Words and Music, a semi-fictionalized depiction of the partnership of Rodgers and Hart. In Richard Linklater's 2025 film Blue Moon, he is played by Andrew Scott, who won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.

## Death

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Rodgers died in 1979, aged 77, after surviving cancer of the jaw, a heart attack, and a laryngectomy. He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered at sea.[citation needed]

## Legacy

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In 1990, the 46th Street Theatre was renamed the Richard Rodgers Theatre in his memory. In 1999, Rodgers and Hart were each commemorated on United States postage stamps. In 2002, the centennial year of Rodgers' birth was celebrated worldwide with books, retrospectives, performances, new recordings of his music, and a Broadway revival of Oklahoma!. The BBC Proms that year devoted an entire evening to Rodgers' music, including a concert performance of Oklahoma! The Boston Pops Orchestra released a new CD that year in tribute to Rodgers, entitled My Favorite Things: A Richard Rodgers Celebration.

Alec Wilder wrote the following about Rodgers:

> Of all the writers whose songs are considered and examined in this book, those of Rodgers show the highest degree of consistent excellence, inventiveness, and sophistication ... [A]fter spending weeks playing his songs, I am more than impressed and respectful: I am astonished.[17]

Rodgers is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.[18]

Along with the Academy of Arts and Letters, Rodgers also started and endowed an award for non-established musical theater composers to produce new productions either by way of full productions or staged readings. It is the only award for which the Academy of Arts and Letters accepts applications and is presented every year. Below are the previous winners of the award:[19]

Year  | Show  | Awardee

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2018[20] | Gun and Powder  | Ross Baum
Angelica Chéri
KPOP  | Jason Kim
Helen Park
Max Vernon
Woodshed Collective
2017  | What I Learned from People  | Will Aronson
Hue Park
2016  | We Live in Cairo  | Patrick Lazour
Daniel Lazour
Costs of Living  | Timothy Huang
Hadestown | Anaïs Mitchell
2015  | String  | Adam Gwon
Sarah Hammond
2014  | Witness Uganda | Matthew Gould
Griffin Matthews
2013  | Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 | Dave Malloy
The Kid Who Would Be Pope  | Tom Megan
Jack Megan
2012  | Witness Uganda | Matthew Gould
Griffin Matthews
2011  | Dogfight | Peter Duchan
Benj Pasek
Justin Paul
Gloryana  | Andrew Gerle
2010  | Buddy's Tavern  | Raymond De Felitta
Alison Louise Hubbard
Kim Oler
Rocket Science  | Patricia Cotter
Jason Rhyne
Stephen Weiner
2009  | Cheer Wars  | Karlan Judd
Gordon Leary
Rosa Parks  | Scott Ethier
Jeff Hughes
2008  | Alive at Ten  | Kirsten A. Guenther
Ryan Scott Oliver
Kingdom  | Aaron Jafferis
Ian Williams
See Rock City and Other Destinations  | Brad Alexander
Adam Mathias
2007  | Calvin Berger | Barry Wyner
Main-Travelled Roads  | Dave Hudson
Paul Libman
2006  | Grey Gardens | Scott Frankel
Michael Korie
Doug Wright
True Fans  | Chris Miller
Bill Rosenfield
Nathan Tysen
Yellow Wood  | Michelle Elliott
Danny Larsen
2005  | Broadcast  | Nathan Christensen
Scott Murphy
Dust & Dreams: Celebrating Sandburg  | David Hudson
Paul Libman
Red  | Brian Lowdermilk
Marcus Stevens
2004  | To Paint the Earth  | Daniel Frederick Levin
Jonathan Portera
The Tutor  | Andrew Gerle
Maryrose Wood
Unlocked | Sam Carner
Derek Gregor
2003  | The Devil in the Flesh  | Jeffrey Lunden
Arthur Perlman
Once Upon a Time in New Jersey  | Susan DiLallo
Stephen A. Weiner
The Tutor  | Andrew Gerle
Maryrose Wood
2002  | The Fabulist  | David Spencer
Stephen Witkin
The Tutor  | Andrew Gerle
Maryrose Wood
2001  | Heading East  | Leon Ko
Robert Lee
The Spitfire Grill | Fred Alley
James Valcq
2000  | Bat Boy | Kaythe Farley
Brian Flemming
Laurence O'Keefe
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin | Kirsten Childs
Suburb  | Robert S. Cohen
David Javerbaum
1999  | Bat Boy | Kaythe Farley
Brian Flemming
Laurence O'Keefe
Blood on the Dining Room Floor  | Jonathan Sheffer
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin  | Kirsten Childs
Dream True: My Life with Vernon Dexter  | Ricky Ian Gordon
Tina Landau
The Singing  | Lenora Champagne
Daniel Levy
1998  | Little Women | Alison Hubbard
Allan Knee
Kim Oler
Summer  | Erik Haagensen
Paul Schwartz
1997  | The Ballad of Little Jo  | Mike Reid
Sarah Schlesinger
Barrio Babies  | Fernand Rivas
Luis Santeiro
Violet | Brian Crawley
Jeanine Tesori
1996  | Bobos  | James McBride
Ed Shockley
The Hidden Sky  | Kate Chisholm
Peter Foley
The Princess & the Blac  | Andy Chuckerman
Karole Foreman
1995  | Spendora  | Mark Campbell
Stephen Hoffman
Peter Webb
1994  | Doll (not produced)  | Scott Frankel
Michael Korie
The Gig  | Douglas Cohen
Rent | Jonathan Larson
The Sweet Revenge of ...  | Mark Campbell
Burton Cohen
Stephen Hoffman
1993  | Allos Makar  | Scott Frankel
Michael Korie
Valeria Vasilevsky
Avenue X  | John Jiler
Ray Leslee
Christina Alberta's  | Polly Pen
They Shoot Horses ...  | Nagle Jackson
Robert Sprayberry
1992  | Avenue X  | John Jiler
Ray Leslee
The Molly Maquires  | Sid Cherry
William Strempek
1991  | Opal  | Robert N. Lindsey
The Times  | Joe Keenan
Brad Ross
1990  | Down the Stream  | Michael Goldenberg
Swamp Gas and Shallow Feelings  | Randy Buck
Shirlee Strother
Jack E. Williams
Whatnot  | Howard Crabtree
Dick Gallagher
Mark Waldrop
1989  | Juan Darien | Elliot Goldenthal
Julie Taymor
1988  | Lucky Stiff | Lynn Ahrens
Stephen Flaherty
Sheila Levine is Dead ...  | Michael Devon
Todd Graff
Superbia | Jonathan Larson
1987  | Henry and Ellen  | Michael John LaChiusa
Lucky Stiff | Lynn Ahrens
Stephen Flaherty
No Way to Treat A Lady  | Douglas J. Cohen
1986  | Break/Agnes/Eulogy  | Michael John LaChiusa
Juba  | Wendy Lamb
Russell Walden
1984  | Brownstone | Andrew Cadiff
Peter Larson
Josh Rubens
Papushko  | Andrew Teirstein
1982  | Portrait of Jennie  | Enid Futterman
Howard Marren
Dennis Rosa
1981  | Child of the Sun  | Damien Leake
1980  | Nine (not produced)  | Maro Fratti
Maury Yeston

### Relationship with performers

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Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Helen Tamiris watching hopefuls who are being auditioned on stage of the St. James Theatre.

Rosemary Clooney recorded a version of "Falling in Love with Love" by Rodgers, using a swing style. After the recording session Richard Rodgers told her pointedly that it should be sung as a waltz.[21] After Doris Day recorded "I Have Dreamed" in 1961, he wrote to her and her arranger, Jim Harbert, that theirs was the most beautiful rendition of his song he had ever heard.

After Peggy Lee recorded her version of "Lover", a Rodgers song, with a dramatically different arrangement from that originally conceived by him, Rodgers said, "I don't know why Peggy picked on me, she could have fucked up Silent Night".[22] Mary Martin said that Richard Rodgers composed songs for her for South Pacific, knowing she had a small vocal range, and the songs generally made her look her best. She also said that Rodgers and Hammerstein listened to all her suggestions and she worked extremely well with them.[23] Both Rodgers and Hammerstein wanted Doris Day for the lead in the film version of South Pacific and she reportedly wanted the part. They discussed it with her, but after her manager/husband Martin Melcher would not budge on his demand for a high salary for her, the role went to Mitzi Gaynor.

## Awards and nominations

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Rodgers is the first entertainer to have won the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony).

Year  | Award  | Category  | Nominated work  | Results  | Ref.

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1945 | Academy Awards | Best Song | "It Might as Well Be Spring" (from State Fair) | Won  | [24]
1958 | Grammy Awards | Best Original Cast Album (Broadway or TV) | Flower Drum Song | Nominated  | [25]
Victory at Sea: Vol II | Nominated
Best Musical Composition First Recorded and Released in 1958 (Over 5 Minutes Duration) | Nominated
1960 | Best Show Album (Original Cast) | The Sound of Music | Won
1962 | Song of the Year | "The Sweetest Sounds"  | Nominated
Best Original Cast Show Album | No Strings | Won
1965 | Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album | Do I Hear a Waltz? | Nominated
1971 | Two by Two | Nominated
1976 | Best Cast Show Album | Rex | Nominated
1989  | Trustees Award | —  | Won  | [26]
1978  | Kennedy Center Honors | —  | —  | Honored  | [27]
1958 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Best Musical Contribution for Television  | Cinderella | Nominated  | [28]
1962 | Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed for Television | Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years | Won
1944 | Pulitzer Prize | Special Citations and Awards | Oklahoma! | Won  | [29]
1950 | Drama | South Pacific | Won  | [30]
1950 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Won  | [31]
Producers (Musical)  | Won
Best Score | Won
1952 | Best Musical  | The King and I | Won  | [32]
1956 | Pipe Dream | Nominated  | [33]
1959 | Flower Drum Song | Nominated  | [34]
1960 | The Sound of Music | Won[a] | [35]
1962 | No Strings | Nominated  | [36]
Best Composer | Won
Special Tony Award | Won  | [37]
1965 | Best Composer and Lyricist | Do I Hear a Waltz? | Nominated  | [38]
1972 | Special Tony Award  | —  | Won  | [39]
1979 | Lawrence Langner Memorial Award | —  | Won  | [40]
1996 | Best Original Score | State Fair | Nominated  | [41]

## Shows with music by Rodgers

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### Lyrics by Lorenz Hart

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* One Minute Please (1917)
* Fly with Me (1920)
* Poor Little Ritz Girl (1920)
* The Melody Man (1924)
* The Garrick Gaieties (1925–26)
* Dearest Enemy (1925)
* The Girl Friend (1926)
* Peggy-Ann (1926)
* Betsy (1926)
* A Connecticut Yankee (1927)
* She's My Baby (1928)
* Present Arms (1928)
* Chee-Chee (1928)
* Spring Is Here (1929)
* Heads Up! (1929)
* Ever Green (1930)
* Simple Simon (1930)
* America's Sweetheart (1931)
* Love Me Tonight (1932)
* Jumbo (1935)
* On Your Toes (1936)
* Babes in Arms (1937)
* I'd Rather Be Right (1937)
* I Married an Angel (1938)
* The Boys from Syracuse (1938)
* Too Many Girls (1939)
* Higher and Higher (1940)
* Pal Joey (1940–41)
* By Jupiter (1942)
* A Connecticut Yankee Revival (1943)
* Rodgers & Hart (1975), Rodgers and Hart revue musical

### Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

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* Oklahoma! (1943)
* Carousel (1945)
* State Fair (1945) (film)
* Allegro (1947)
* South Pacific (1949)
* The King and I (1951)
* Me and Juliet (1953)
* Pipe Dream (1955)
* Cinderella (1957) (television)
* Flower Drum Song (1958)
* The Sound of Music (1959)
* A Grand Night for Singing (1993), Rodgers and Hammerstein revue musical
* State Fair (1996) (stage musical)

### Other lyricists and solo works

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* Ghost Town (1939) (ballet)
* Victory at Sea (1952) (arrangements and orchestration by Robert Russell Bennett)
* The Valiant Years (1960)
* No Strings (1962) (lyrics also by Rodgers)
* Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965) (lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)
* Androcles and the Lion (TV) (1967) (lyrics also by Rodgers)
* Two by Two (1970) (lyrics by Martin Charnin)
* Rex (1976) (lyrics by Sheldon Harnick)
* I Remember Mama (1979) (lyrics by Martin Charnin/Raymond Jessel)

## Notes

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1. ^ Tied with Fiorello!.

## References

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1. ^ "In 1962, Richard Rodgers Became the First EGOT (Before That Was Even a Thing)". billboard.com. May 19, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
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3. ^ "KENNEDY CENTER HONORS 1978". paleycenter.org. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
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5. ^ Hyland, William G: Richard Rodgers The New York Times, Chapter 1. Yale University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-300-07115-9
6. ^ Richard Rodgers, Musical Stages: An Autobiography (2002 Reissue), pp. 12,20–21,44, DaCapo Press, ISBN 0-306-81134-0
7. ^ Rodgers & Hammerstein as mystery guests on What's My Line?, February 19, 1956, video on YouTube
8. ^ Anna Kisselgoff, "DANCE REVIEW; Rodgers As Ideal Dance Partner", The New York Times, October 23, 2002.
9. ^ O'Leary, J. (2014). Oklahoma!, "lousy publicity," and the politics of formal integration in the American Musical Theater. Journal of Musicology, 31(1), 139–182. https://doi.org/10.1525/jm.2014.31.1.139
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13. ^ "Dorothy Rodgers". Rodgers and Hammerstein. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
14. ^ Simonson, Robert (June 26, 2014). "Mary Rodgers, Composer of Once Upon a Mattress and Daughter of Broadway Royalty, Dies at 83". Playbill. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
15. ^ Rodgers, Mary & Green, Jesse,Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers (2022). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374298623
16. ^ Rodgers' biographer William G Hyland states: "That Richard Rodgers would recall, at the very beginning of his memoirs, his great-grandmother's death and its religious significance for his family suggests his need to justify his own religious alienation. Richard became an atheist, and as a parent, he resisted religious instruction for his children. According to his wife, Dorothy, he felt that religion was based on "fear" and contributed to "feelings of guilt." " Richard Rodgers, Yale University Press 1998, ISBN 0-300-07115-9. Chapter 1 at The New York Times Books (accessed April 30, 2008).
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19. ^ "Awards". American Academy of Arts and Letters.
20. ^ "Two Musicals Win Richard Rodgers Awards" (Press release). American Academy of Arts and Letters. March 23, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
21. ^ Lehman, David (2009). A Fine Romance. New York: Random House. p. 140,249. ISBN 978-0-8052-4250-8.
22. ^ Lehman, p. 140.
23. ^ Lehman, p. 142–43.
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39. ^ "1972 Special Tony Award". Tony Awards. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
40. ^ "1979 Special Tony Award". Tony Awards. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
41. ^ "1996 Tony Awards". Tony Awards. Retrieved September 5, 2023.

## Further reading

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* Secrest, Meryle (2001). Somewhere For Me. Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. ISBN 1-55783-581-0.

## External links

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Archives at

| Location| Music Division, Library of Congress

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Identifiers|

* L (Special) 89-19; *T-Mss 1987-006; JPH 85-5; JPB 13-30

Source| Richard Rodgers collection
How to use archival material

* Biography portal

* Richard Rodgers at the Internet Broadway Database
* Richard Rodgers at IMDb
* Richard Rodgers at Playbill Vault
* City Journal article on Rodgers
* Centennial features on Rodgers
* The Richard Rodgers Collection at the Library of Congress
* Richard Rodgers papers, 1914–1989, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
* Musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein
* TimeLine of Rodgers' Life
* Review and analysis of Rodgers' later plays
* "American Masters: Richard Rodgers Biography". PBS. February 1999. Retrieved March 28, 2007.
* A feature on Rodgers and Hammerstein.
* Richard Rodgers at Library of Congress
* Richard Rodgers recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

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Rodgers and Hart

* Richard Rodgers
* Lorenz Hart

Musicals|

* Fly with Me
* Poor Little Ritz Girl
* The Garrick Gaieties
* Dearest Enemy
* The Girl Friend
* Peggy-Ann
* A Connecticut Yankee
* Present Arms
* Chee-Chee
* Ever Green
* Simple Simon
* America's Sweetheart
* Jumbo
* On Your Toes
* Babes in Arms
* I'd Rather Be Right
* The Boys from Syracuse
* I Married an Angel
* Too Many Girls
* Higher and Higher
* Pal Joey
* By Jupiter

Songs|

* "Manhattan"
* "Mountain Greenery"
* "Here in My Arms"
* "Blue Room"
* "My Heart Stood Still"
* "Thou Swell"
* "To Keep My Love Alive"
* "You Took Advantage of Me"
* "With a Song in My Heart"
* "A Ship Without a Sail"
* "Dancing on the Ceiling"
* "Ten Cents a Dance"
* "He Was Too Good to Me"
* "I've Got Five Dollars"
* "Isn't It Romantic?"
* "Lover"
* "Mimi"
* "You Are Too Beautiful"
* "Blue Moon"
* "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)"
* "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"
* "My Romance"
* "Little Girl Blue"
* "There's a Small Hotel"
* "Glad to Be Unhappy"
* "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"
* "Where or When"
* "I Wish I Were in Love Again"
* "My Funny Valentine"
* "Johnny One Note"
* "The Lady Is a Tramp"
* "Have You Met Miss Jones?"
* "I'll Tell the Man in the Street"
* "Spring Is Here"
* "Falling in Love with Love"
* "This Can't Be Love"
* "Sing for Your Supper"
* "I Like to Recognize the Tune"
* "I Didn't Know What Time It Was"
* "Give It Back to the Indians"
* "You're Nearer"
* "It Never Entered My Mind"
* "I Could Write a Book"
* "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
* "Ev'rything I've Got"
* "Wait till You See Her"

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

* Richard Rodgers
* Oscar Hammerstein II

Stage musicals|

* Oklahoma!
* Carousel
* Allegro
* South Pacific
* The King and I
* Me and Juliet
* Pipe Dream
* Flower Drum Song
* The Sound of Music
* A Grand Night for Singing
* State Fair
* Cinderella

Productions|

* I Remember Mama
* Annie Get Your Gun
* Happy Birthday
* John Loves Mary
* Show Boat
* The Happy Time
* Burning Bright

Films|

* State Fair (1945)
* Oklahoma!
* Carousel
* The King and I (1956 film)
* South Pacific
* Flower Drum Song
* State Fair (1962)
* The Sound of Music
* The King and I (1999 film)

Television|

* Cinderella
* Carousel
* Cinderella (1997)
* The Sound of Music Live!
* The Sound of Music Live

Songs|

* "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'"
* "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top"
* "I Cain't Say No"
* "Many a New Day"
* "It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage!"
* "People Will Say We're in Love"
* "Lonely Room"
* "The Farmer and the Cowman"
* "All Er Nuthin'"
* "Oklahoma"
* "If I Loved You"
* "Soliloquy"
* "You'll Never Walk Alone"
* "It Might as Well Be Spring"
* "That's for Me"
* "A Fellow Needs a Girl"
* "So Far"
* "Some Enchanted Evening"
* "There Is Nothing Like a Dame"
* "Bali Ha'i"
* "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair"
* "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy"
* "Younger Than Springtime"
* "Happy Talk"
* "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"
* "I Whistle a Happy Tune"
* "Hello, Young Lovers"
* "Getting to Know You"
* "We Kiss in a Shadow"
* "Something Wonderful"
* "I Have Dreamed"
* "Shall We Dance?"
* "No Other Love"
* "I Enjoy Being a Girl"
* "The Sound of Music"
* "Maria"
* "My Favorite Things"
* "Do-Re-Mi"
* "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
* "The Lonely Goatherd"
* "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"
* "So Long, Farewell"
* "No Way to Stop It"
* "Edelweiss"

Related articles|

* "Something Good"
* Cinderella (Original television cast recording)
* The Sound of Music (1965 soundtrack)
* The Sound of Music: Music from the NBC Television Event

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Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Oklahoma! (1943)

Source|

* Lynn Riggs' Green Grow the Lilacs (1931 play)

Adaptations|

* Oklahoma! (1955 film)

Albums|

* Oklahoma! (1943 original Broadway cast recording)
* Oklahoma! (1955 soundtrack)

Songs|

| Act 1|

* "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'"
* "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top"
* "I Cain't Say No"
* "Many a New Day"
* "It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage!"
* "People Will Say We're in Love"
* "Lonely Room"

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Act 2|

* "The Farmer and the Cowman"
* "Oklahoma!"

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Mary Rodgers

Musicals|

* Once Upon a Mattress (1959)
* From A to Z (1960)
* Hot Spot (1963)
* The Mad Show (1966)
* Working (1978)
* The Madwoman of Central Park West (1979)

Children's books|

* Freaky Friday (1972)

Family|

* Adam Guettel (son)
* Richard Rodgers (father)

Awards for Richard Rodgers

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Academy Award for Best Original Song

1934–1940|

* "The Continental"
* Music: Con Conrad
* Lyrics: Herb Magidson (1934)
* "Lullaby of Broadway"
* Music: Harry Warren
* Lyrics: Al Dubin (1935)
* "The Way You Look Tonight"
* Music: Jerome Kern
* Lyrics: Dorothy Fields (1936)
* "Sweet Leilani"
* Music and lyrics: Harry Owens (1937)
* "Thanks for the Memory"
* Music: Ralph Rainger
* Lyrics: Leo Robin (1938)
* "Over the Rainbow"
* Music: Harold Arlen
* Lyrics: E. Y. Harburg (1939)
* "When You Wish Upon a Star"
* Music: Leigh Harline
* Lyrics: Ned Washington (1940)

1941–1950|

* "The Last Time I Saw Paris"
* Music: Jerome Kern
* Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II (1941)
* "White Christmas"
* Music and lyrics: Irving Berlin (1942)
* "You'll Never Know"
* Music: Harry Warren
* Lyrics: Mack Gordon (1943)
* "Swinging on a Star"
* Music: Jimmy Van Heusen
* Lyrics: Johnny Burke (1944)
* "It Might as Well Be Spring"
* Music: Richard Rodgers
* Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II (1945)
* "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"
* Music: Harry Warren
* Lyrics: Johnny Mercer (1946)
* "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"
* Music: Allie Wrubel
* Lyrics: Ray Gilbert (1947)
* "Buttons and Bows"
* Music: Jay Livingston
* Lyrics: Ray Evans (1948)
* "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
* Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser (1949)
* "Mona Lisa"
* Music and lyrics: Ray Evans and Jay Livingston (1950)

1951–1960|

* "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
* Music: Hoagy Carmichael
* Lyrics: Johnny Mercer (1951)
* "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')"
* Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
* Lyrics: Ned Washington (1952)
* "Secret Love"
* Music: Sammy Fain
* Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster (1953)
* "Three Coins in the Fountain"
* Music: Jule Styne
* Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1954)
* "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"
* Music: Sammy Fain
* Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster (1955)
* "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"
* Music and lyrics: Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (1956)
* "All the Way"
* Music: Jimmy Van Heusen
* Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1957)
* "Gigi"
* Music: Frederick Loewe
* Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner (1958)
* "High Hopes"
* Music: Jimmy Van Heusen
* Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1959)
* "Never on Sunday"
* Music and lyrics: Manos Hatzidakis (1960)

1961–1970|

* "Moon River"
* Music: Henry Mancini
* Lyrics: Johnny Mercer (1961)
* "Days of Wine and Roses"
* Music: Henry Mancini
* Lyrics: Johnny Mercer (1962)
* "Call Me Irresponsible"
* Music: Jimmy Van Heusen
* Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1963)
* "Chim Chim Cher-ee"
* Music and lyrics: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (1964)
* "The Shadow of Your Smile"
* Music: Johnny Mandel
* Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster (1965)
* "Born Free"
* Music: John Barry
* Lyrics: Don Black (1966)
* "Talk to the Animals"
* Music and lyrics: Leslie Bricusse (1967)
* "The Windmills of Your Mind"
* Music: Michel Legrand
* Lyrics: Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1968)
* "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
* Music: Burt Bacharach
* Lyrics: Hal David (1969)
* "For All We Know"
* Music: Fred Karlin
* Lyrics: Robb Royer and Jimmy Griffin (1970)

1971–1980|

* "Theme from Shaft"
* Music and lyrics: Isaac Hayes (1971)
* "The Morning After"
* Music and lyrics: Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn (1972)
* "The Way We Were"
* Music: Marvin Hamlisch
* Lyrics: Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1973)
* "We May Never Love Like This Again"
* Music and lyrics: Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn (1974)
* "I'm Easy"
* Music and lyrics: Keith Carradine (1975)
* "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
* Music: Barbra Streisand
* Lyrics: Paul Williams (1976)
* "You Light Up My Life"
* Music and lyrics: Joseph Brooks (1977)
* "Last Dance"
* Music and lyrics: Paul Jabara (1978)
* "It Goes Like It Goes"
* Music: David Shire
* Lyrics: Norman Gimbel (1979)
* "Fame"
* Music: Michael Gore
* Lyrics: Dean Pitchford (1980)

1981–1990|

* "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"
* Music and lyrics: Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross and Peter Allen (1981)
* "Up Where We Belong"
* Music: Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie
* Lyrics: Will Jennings (1982)
* "Flashdance... What a Feeling"
* Music: Giorgio Moroder
* Lyrics: Keith Forsey and Irene Cara (1983)
* "I Just Called to Say I Love You"
* Music and lyrics: Stevie Wonder (1984)
* "Say You, Say Me"
* Music and lyrics: Lionel Richie (1985)
* "Take My Breath Away"
* Music: Giorgio Moroder
* Lyrics: Tom Whitlock (1986)
* "(I've Had) The Time of My Life"
* Music: Franke Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz
* Lyrics: Franke Previte (1987)
* "Let the River Run"
* Music and lyrics: Carly Simon (1988)
* "Under the Sea"
* Music: Alan Menken
* Lyrics: Howard Ashman (1989)
* "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)"
* Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim (1990)

1991–2000|

* "Beauty and the Beast"
* Music: Alan Menken
* Lyrics: Howard Ashman (1991)
* "A Whole New World"
* Music: Alan Menken
* Lyrics: Tim Rice (1992)
* "Streets of Philadelphia"
* Music and lyrics: Bruce Springsteen (1993)
* "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"
* Music: Elton John
* Lyrics: Tim Rice (1994)
* "Colors of the Wind"
* Music: Alan Menken
* Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz (1995)
* "You Must Love Me"
* Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
* Lyrics: Tim Rice (1996)
* "My Heart Will Go On"
* Music: James Horner
* Lyrics: Will Jennings (1997)
* "When You Believe"
* Music and lyrics: Stephen Schwartz (1998)
* "You'll Be in My Heart"
* Music and lyrics: Phil Collins (1999)
* "Things Have Changed"
* Music and lyrics: Bob Dylan (2000)

2001–2010|

* "If I Didn't Have You"
* Music and lyrics: Randy Newman (2001)
* "Lose Yourself"
* Music: Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto
* Lyrics: Eminem (2002)
* "Into the West"
* Music and lyrics: Fran Walsh, Howard Shore and Annie Lennox (2003)
* "Al otro lado del río"
* Music and lyrics: Jorge Drexler (2004)
* "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp"
* Music and lyrics: Juicy J, Frayser Boy and DJ Paul (2005)
* "I Need to Wake Up"
* Music and lyrics: Melissa Etheridge (2006)
* "Falling Slowly"
* Music and lyrics: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (2007)
* "Jai Ho"
* Music: A. R. Rahman
* Lyrics: Gulzar (2008)
* "The Weary Kind"
* Music and lyrics: Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (2009)
* "We Belong Together"
* Music and lyrics: Randy Newman (2010)

2011–2020|

* "Man or Muppet"
* Music and lyrics: Bret McKenzie (2011)
* "Skyfall"
* Music and lyrics: Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth (2012)
* "Let It Go"
* Music and lyrics: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (2013)
* "Glory"
* Music and lyrics: John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn (2014)
* "Writing's on the Wall"
* Music and lyrics: James Napier and Sam Smith (2015)
* "City of Stars"
* Music: Justin Hurwitz
* Lyrics: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2016)
* "Remember Me"
* Music and lyrics: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (2017)
* "Shallow"
* Music and lyrics: Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt (2018)
* "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again"
* Music: Elton John
* Lyrics: Bernie Taupin (2019)
* "Fight for You"
* Music: D'Mile and H.E.R.
* Lyrics: H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas (2020)

2021–present|

* "No Time to Die"
* Music and lyrics: Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell (2021)
* "Naatu Naatu"
* Music: M. M. Keeravani
* Lyrics: Chandrabose (2022)
* "What Was I Made For?"
* Music and lyrics: Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell (2023)
* "El Mal"
* Music: Clément Ducol and Camille
* Lyrics: Clément Ducol, Camille, and Jacques Audiard (2024)

* v
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* e

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score)

1950s|

* Walter Schumann (1955)
* No Award (1956–1959)

1960s|

* No Award (1960–1961)
* Richard Rodgers (1962)
* Robert Russell Bennett (1963)
* Elmer Bernstein (1964)
* No Award (1965–1969)

1970s|

* Pete Rugolo (1970)
* Walter Scharf (1971)
* John Williams (1972)
* Jerry Goldsmith (1973)
* Fred Karlin (1974)
* Jerry Goldsmith (1975)
* Jerry Goldsmith (1976)
* Leonard Rosenman, Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1977)
* Jimmie Haskell (1978)
* Leonard Rosenman (1979)

1980s|

* Jerry Fielding (1980)
* Jerry Goldsmith (1981)
* Patrick Williams (1982)
* Billy Goldenberg (1983)
* Bruce Broughton (1984)
* Allyn Ferguson (1985)
* Laurence Rosenthal (1986)
* Laurence Rosenthal (1987)
* Laurence Rosenthal (1988)
* Basil Poledouris (1989)

1990s|

* James Di Pasquale (1990)
* Richard Bellis (1991)
* Bruce Broughton (1992)
* Patrick Williams (1993)
* Lennie Niehaus (1994)
* Laurence Rosenthal (1995)
* Ernest Troost (1996)
* Laurence Rosenthal (1997)
* Bruce Broughton (1998)
* Richard Hartley (1999)

2000s|

* John Altman (2000)
* Arturo Sandoval (2001)
* Adrian Johnston (2002)
* Bruce Broughton (2003)
* Bruce Broughton (2004)
* Bruce Broughton (2005)
* Geoff Zanelli (2006)
* Jeff Beal (2007)
* Jeff Beal (2008)
* Howard Goodall (2009)

2010s|

* Alex Wurman (2010)
* Carter Burwell (2011)
* Javier Navarrete (2012)
* Mychael Danna (2013)
* David Arnold and Michael Price (2014)
* Rachel Portman (2015)
* Victor Reyes (2016)
* Jeff Russo (2017)
* Cyril Aufort (2018)
* Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)

2020s|

* Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2020)
* Carlos Rafael Rivera (2021)
* Cristobal Tapia de Veer (2022)
* Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson (2023)
* Carlos Rafael Rivera (2024)

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* e

Kennedy Center Honorees (1970s)

1978|

* Marian Anderson
* Fred Astaire
* George Balanchine
* Richard Rodgers
* Arthur Rubinstein

1979|

* Aaron Copland
* Ella Fitzgerald
* Henry Fonda
* Martha Graham
* Tennessee Williams

* Complete list
* 1970s
* 1980s
* 1990s
* 2000s
* 2010s
* 2020s

* v
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* e

Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Authors

* Jesse Lynch Williams (1918)
* Eugene O'Neill (1920)
* Zona Gale (1921)
* Eugene O'Neill (1922)
* Owen Davis (1923)
* Hatcher Hughes (1924)
* Sidney Howard (1925)
* George Kelly (1926)
* Paul Green (1927)
* Eugene O'Neill (1928)
* Elmer Rice (1929)
* Marc Connelly (1930)
* Susan Glaspell (1931)
* George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin (1932)
* Maxwell Anderson (1933)
* Sidney Kingsley (1934)
* Zoe Akins (1935)
* Robert E. Sherwood (1936)
* Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman (1937)
* Thornton Wilder (1938)
* Robert E. Sherwood (1939)
* William Saroyan (1940)
* Robert E. Sherwood (1941)
* Thornton Wilder (1943)
* Mary Chase (1945)
* Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay (1946)
* Tennessee Williams (1948)
* Arthur Miller (1949)
* Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan (1950)
* Joseph Kramm (1952)
* William Inge (1953)
* John Patrick (1954)
* Tennessee Williams (1955)
* Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich (1956)
* Eugene O'Neill (1957)
* Ketti Frings (1958)
* Archibald MacLeish (1959)
* Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (1960)
* Tad Mosel (1961)
* Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows (1962)
* Frank D. Gilroy (1965)
* Edward Albee (1967)
* Howard Sackler (1969)
* Charles Gordone (1970)
* Paul Zindel (1971)
* Jason Miller (1973)
* Edward Albee (1975)
* Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante, James Kirkwood Jr., Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (1976)
* Michael Cristofer (1977)
* D. L. Coburn (1978)
* Sam Shepard (1979)
* Lanford Wilson (1980)
* Beth Henley (1981)
* Charles Fuller (1982)
* Marsha Norman (1983)
* David Mamet (1984)
* James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (1985)
* August Wilson (1987)
* Alfred Uhry (1988)
* Wendy Wasserstein (1989)
* August Wilson (1990)
* Neil Simon (1991)
* Robert Schenkkan (1992)
* Tony Kushner (1993)
* Edward Albee (1994)
* Horton Foote (1995)
* Jonathan Larson (1996)
* Paula Vogel (1998)
* Margaret Edson (1999)
* Donald Margulies (2000)
* David Auburn (2001)
* Suzan-Lori Parks (2002)
* Nilo Cruz (2003)
* Doug Wright (2004)
* John Patrick Shanley (2005)
* David Lindsay-Abaire (2007)
* Tracy Letts (2008)
* Lynn Nottage (2009)
* Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (2010)
* Bruce Norris (2011)
* Quiara Alegría Hudes (2012)
* Ayad Akhtar (2013)
* Annie Baker (2014)
* Stephen Adly Guirgis (2015)
* Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)
* Lynn Nottage (2017)
* Martyna Majok (2018)
* Jackie Sibblies Drury (2019)
* Michael R. Jackson (2020)
* Katori Hall (2021)
* James Ijames (2022)
* Sanaz Toossi (2023)
* Eboni Booth (2024)
* Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (2025)

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* e

Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

Journalism|

* Frank I. Cobb* (1924)
* William O. Dapping (1930)
* Edmonton Journal (1938)
* The New York Times (1941)
* Byron Price (1944)
* St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1947)
* Cyrus L. Sulzberger / Arthur Krock (1951)
* Max Kase / The Kansas City Star (1952)
* The New York Times (1953)
* Walter Lippmann (1958)
* Gannett Newspapers (1964)
* Richard Lee Strout (1978)
* Herb Caen (1996)
* Capital Gazette (2019)
* Ida B. Wells (2020, posthumous)
* Darnella Frazier (2021)

Letters|

* Love Songs by Sara Teasdale (1918)
* Corn Huskers by Carl Sandburg / Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer (1919)
* Kenneth Roberts (1957)
* The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly (1960)
* American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (1961)
* George Washington, Vols. I-IV by James Thomas Flexner (1973)
* Roots by Alex Haley (1977)
* E.B. White (1978)
* Theodor Seuss Geisel (1984)
* Art Spiegelman for Maus (1992)
* Edmund S. Morgan (2006)

Arts|

* Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. A special award for Oklahoma! (1944)
* Roger Sessions (1974)
* Scott Joplin (1976)
* Milton Babbitt (1982)
* William Schuman (1985)
* George Gershwin (1998)
* Duke Ellington (1999)
* Thelonious Monk (2006)
* Ray Bradbury (2007)
* Bob Dylan (2008)
* Hank Williams (2010)
* Aretha Franklin (2019)

Service|

* William Allen White* (1944)
* Columbia University and the Graduate School of Journalism (1947)
* Frank D. Fackenthal (1948)
* John Hohenberg (1976)
* Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. (1985)

* indicates award given to widow in year after his death

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Special Tony Award

1947–1975|

* Dora Chamberlain / Ira and Rita Katzenberg / Jules Leventhal / Burns Mantle / P. A. MacDonald / Vincent Sardi Sr. (1947)
* Vera Allen / Paul Beisman / Joe E. Brown / Cast of The Importance of Being Earnest / Robert W. Dowling / Experimental Theatre Inc. / Rosalind Gilder / June Lockhart / Mary Martin / George Pierce / James Whitmore (1948)
* No Award (1949)
* Maurice Evans / Philip Faversham / Brock Pemberton (1950)
* Ruth Green (1951)
* Charles Boyer / Judy Garland / Edward Kook (1952)
* Danny Kaye / Beatrice Lillie (1953)
* No Award (1954)
* Proscenium Productions (1955)
* Fourth Street Chekov Theatre / City Center / The New York Public Library Theatre Collection / The Shakespearewrights / The Threepenny Opera (1956)
* American Shakespeare Festival / Jean-Louis Barrault / Robert Russell Bennett / William Hammerstein / Joseph Harbuck / Paul Shyre (1957)
* Mrs. Martin Beck / New York Shakespeare Festival (1958)
* Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay / John Gielgud / Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante (1959)
* Burgess Meredith and James Thurber / John D. Rockefeller III (1960)
* David Merrick / The Theatre Guild (1961)
* Brooks Atkinson / Richard Rodgers / Franco Zeffirelli (1962)
* Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore / Irving Berlin / W. McNeil Lowry (1963)
* Eva Le Gallienne (1964)
* Gilbert Miller / Oliver Smith (1965)
* Helen Menken (1966)
* No Award (1967)
* APA-Phoenix Theatre / Pearl Bailey / Carol Channing / Maurice Chevalier / Marlene Dietrich / Audrey Hepburn / David Merrick (1968)
* Leonard Bernstein / Carol Burnett / Rex Harrison / The National Theatre Company of Great Britain / The Negro Ensemble Company (1969)
* Noël Coward / Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt / New York Shakespeare Festival / Barbra Streisand (1970)
* Ingram Ash / Elliot Norton / Playbill / Roger L. Stevens (1971)
* Fiddler on the Roof / Ethel Merman / Richard Rodgers / The Theatre Guild-American Theatre Society (1972)
* The Actors Fund of America / John Lindsay / Shubert Organization (1973)
* Actors' Equity Association / A Moon for the Misbegotten / Candide / Peter Cook and Dudley Moore / Harold Friedlander / Bette Midler / Liza Minnelli / Theatre Development Fund / John F. Wharton (1974)
* Al Hirschfeld (1975)

1976–2000|

* George Abbott / Richard Burton / Circle in the Square Theatre / Thomas H. Fitzgerald / Mathilde Pincus (1976)
* Cheryl Crawford / Equity Liberty Theatre / Barry Manilow / National Theatre of the Deaf / Diana Ross / Lily Tomlin (1977)
* Irving Berlin / Stan Dragoti and Charles Moss (1978)
* Walter F. Diehl / Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center / Henry Fonda / Richard Rodgers (1979)
* Richard Fitzgerald / Helen Hayes / Mary Tyler Moore / Hobe Morrison (1980)
* Lena Horne (1981)
* Radio City Music Hall / The Actors Fund of America / Warner Communications (1982)
* No Award (1983)
* A Chorus Line / Peter Feller / La Tragedie de Carmen (1984)
* Yul Brynner / New York State Council on the Arts (1985)
* No award (1986)
* George Abbott / Jackie Mason (1987)
* Brooklyn Academy of Music (1988)
* No Award (1989)
* No Award (1990–1992)
* Oklahoma! (1993)
* Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (1994)
* Carol Channing / National Endowment for the Arts / Harvey Sabinson (1995)
* No Award (1996)
* Bernard B. Jacobs (1997)
* Edward E. Colton / Ben Edwards (1998)
* Uta Hagen / Arthur Miller / Isabelle Stevenson (1999)
* Dame Edna: The Royal Tour / T. Edward Hambleton (2000)

2001–present|

* Paul Gemignani (2001)
* Julie Harris / Robert Whitehead (2002)
* Cy Feuer / Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003)
* James M. Nederlander (2004)
* Edward Albee (2005)
* Sarah Jones / Harold Prince (2006)
* No Award (2007)
* Robert Russell Bennett / Stephen Sondheim (2008)
* Jerry Herman (2009)
* Alan Ayckbourn / Marian Seldes (2010)
* Athol Fugard / Philip J. Smith (2011)
* Actors' Equity Association / Hugh Jackman (2012)
* Bernard Gersten / Ming Cho Lee / Paul Libin (2013)
* Jane Greenwood (2014)
* John Cameron Mitchell / Tommy Tune (2015)
* Sheldon Harnick / Marshall W. Mason / National Endowment for the Arts / Miles Wilkin (2016)
* James Earl Jones (2017)
* John Leguizamo / Andrew Lloyd Webber / Chita Rivera / Bruce Springsteen (2018)
* Rosemary Harris / Marin Mazzie / Terrence McNally / Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company / Jason Michael Webb / Harold Wheeler (2019)
* The Broadway Advocacy Coalition / David Byrne's American Utopia / Freestyle Love Supreme / Graciela Daniele (2020/21)
* Angela Lansbury / James C. Nicola (2022)
* Joel Grey / John Kander (2023)
* Jack O'Brien / George C. Wolfe / Alex Edelman / Abe Jacob / Nikiya Mathis (2024)
* Harvey Fierstein / Marco Paguia, David Oquendo, Renesito Avich, Gustavo Schartz, Javier Días, Román Diaz, Mauricio Herrera, Jesus Ricardo, Eddie Venegas, Hery Paz, and Leonardo Reyna / Jamie Harrison, Chris Fisher, Gary Beestone, and Edward Pierce (2025)

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Tony Award for Best Original Score

1947–1975|

* Street Scene by Kurt Weill (1947)
* Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter (1949)
* South Pacific by Richard Rodgers (1950)
* Call Me Madam by Irving Berlin (1951)
* No Strings by Richard Rodgers (1962)
* Oliver! by Lionel Bart (1963)
* Hello, Dolly! by Jerry Herman (1964)
* Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (1965)
* Man of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion (1966)
* Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb (1967)
* Hallelujah, Baby! by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1968)
* Company by Stephen Sondheim (1971)
* Follies by Stephen Sondheim (1972)
* A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim (1973)
* Gigi by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (1974)
* The Wiz by Charlie Smalls (1975)

1976–2000|

* A Chorus Line by Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (1976)
* Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin (1977)
* On the Twentieth Century by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1978)
* Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim (1979)
* Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (1980)
* Woman of the Year by John Kander and Fred Ebb (1981)
* Nine by Maury Yeston (1982)
* Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber and T. S. Eliot (1983)
* La Cage aux Folles by Jerry Herman (1984)
* Big River by Roger Miller (1985)
* The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes (1986)
* Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, and Alain Boublil (1987)
* Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim (1988)
* No Award (1989)
* City of Angels by Cy Coleman and David Zippel (1990)
* The Will Rogers Follies by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1991)
* Falsettos by William Finn (1992)
* Kiss of the Spider Woman by John Kander and Fred Ebb / The Who's Tommy by Pete Townshend (1993)
* Passion by Stephen Sondheim (1994)
* Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, and Christopher Hampton (1995)
* Rent by Jonathan Larson (1996)
* Titanic by Maury Yeston (1997)
* Ragtime by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (1998)
* Parade by Jason Robert Brown (1999)
* Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice (2000)

2001–present|

* The Producers by Mel Brooks (2001)
* Urinetown by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis (2002)
* Hairspray by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (2003)
* Avenue Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (2004)
* The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel (2005)
* The Drowsy Chaperone by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (2006)
* Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater (2007)
* In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2008)
* Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (2009)
* Memphis by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro (2010)
* The Book of Mormon by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (2011)
* Newsies by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman (2012)
* Kinky Boots by Cyndi Lauper (2013)
* The Bridges of Madison County by Jason Robert Brown (2014)
* Fun Home by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron (2015)
* Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)
* Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2017)
* The Band's Visit by David Yazbek (2018)
* Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell (2019)
* A Christmas Carol by Christopher Nightingale (2020/21)
* Six by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (2022)
* Kimberly Akimbo by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire (2023)
* Suffs by Shaina Taub (2024)
* Maybe Happy Ending by Will Aronson and Hue Park (2025)

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People who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards

listed by duration and year of completion

Competitive EGOTs|

* Richard Rodgers (1946–1962)
* Helen Hayes (1932–1977)
* Rita Moreno (1962–1977)
* John Gielgud (1948–1991)
* Audrey Hepburn (1954–1994)
* Marvin Hamlisch (1974–1995)
* Jonathan Tunick (1978–1997)
* Mel Brooks (1967–2001)
* Mike Nichols (1961–2001)
* Whoopi Goldberg (1985–2002)
* Scott Rudin (1984–2012)
* Robert Lopez (2004–2014)
* John Legend (2006–2018)
* Andrew Lloyd Webber (1980–2018)
* Tim Rice (1980–2018)
* Alan Menken (1990–2020)
* Jennifer Hudson (2007–2022)
* Viola Davis (2001–2023)
* Elton John (1987–2024)
* Benj Pasek (2017–2024)
* Justin Paul (2017–2024)

Honorary recipients|

* Barbra Streisand (1964–1970)
* Liza Minnelli (1965–1990)
* James Earl Jones (1969–2011)
* Harry Belafonte (1954–2014)
* Quincy Jones (1964–2016)
* Frank Marshall (2019–2023)

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
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* Germany
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* Portugal
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* Norway
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* Chile
* Greece
* Korea
* Sweden
* Poland
* Israel
* Finland
* Catalonia
* Belgium

Academics|

* CiNii

Artists|

* MusicBrainz
* Discography of American Historical Recordings
* Grammy Awards
* Emmy Awards
* FID

People|

* Trove
* Deutsche Biographie

Other|

* IdRef
* NARA
* SNAC
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* RISM
* Yale LUX

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