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Hammerstein did not write stage book for SOM

Posted by:	lordofspeech 12:17 pm EST 12/06/13
In reply to:	re: SOM: Thank you Ernest Lehman! - Michael_Portantiere 11:24 am EST 12/06/13

The project started with Mary Martin and she reached out to other book writers for the musical, not Hammerstein. I think he'd have got it right. But I agree Lehman's work is a vast improvement over stage book.

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